The Skeptics Guide #335 - Dec 17 2011

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2011

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Pro-Measles Children's Book, Higgs Update, Mercury UFO, Hallucinating Color; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Menstrual Syncing; Swindler's List: Online Dating; Science or Fiction

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:06.4	Your escape to reality.
0:09.2	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.4	Today is Wednesday, December 14, 2011, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:17.6	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.4	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:21.4	Hello everyone.
0:22.4	Jane Novella.
0:23.4	Hey guys.
0:24.4	And Evan Bernstein.
0:26.4	How we doing?
0:27.4	Pretty good.
0:28.4	Super.
0:29.4	Fine.
0:30.4	So, Evan, December 17th, the year was 1919.
0:35.4	Albert Porta, a respected American meteorologist whose last name means door in Italian I believe.
0:42.4	Well he caused a widespread panic back in 1919 and he predicted that a conjunction of six
0:48.9	planets which was to occur on December 17th would blast the Earth into oblivion.
0:54.5	So apparently what was going to happen is that this conjunction of the six planets was
0:58.4	going to cause a magnetic current that would pierce the sun and cause a great explosion
1:04.4	of flaming gas and engulf the Earth by by Earth.
1:08.8	And people took this quite seriously.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Steven Novella MD, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Steven Novella MD and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.