The Skeptics Guide #329 - Nov 5 2011

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Paranormal, Psuedoscience, Skeptic, Skepticism, Fringe-science, Science

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🗓️ 4 November 2011

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Climate Change Confirmation, Steve Job's Cancer, New GPS, Pre-Clovis Find; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Brush Before or After; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.5	Your escape to reality.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.7	Joining me this week are Jane Novella.
0:19.6	Hey guys, Rebecca Watson.
0:21.7	Hello everyone.
0:23.2	And Evan Bernstein.
0:24.2	Good evening.
0:25.2	Good evening Evan.
0:27.0	Bob is delayed at work this week.
0:29.3	It's a late night, so we'll forge ahead with Adam.
0:32.8	Evan, tell us what's special about November 5th.
0:36.6	The year was 1892.
0:39.1	From the headlines in that morning's London Times, JBS, Haldane is born.
0:45.4	Wait.
0:46.4	I don't think that's what.
0:50.2	Well, I think you pulled something on as there, Evan.
0:54.4	Well, I think you're getting a little tricky.
0:56.7	The newspaper was onto something because John Burden, Sanderson, Haldane would grow up
1:00.8	to become one of the world's most renowned scientists and leaders in the field of genetics
1:05.4	and evolutionary biology in the first half of the 20th century.
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