The Skeptics Guide #370 - Aug 18 2012
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 18 August 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:06.6 | Your escape to reality. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:12.3 | Today is Wednesday, August 15, 2012, and this is your host, Steven Novella. |
| 0:17.8 | Joining me this week are Bob Novella, Hey everybody, Jane Novella, Hey guys, and Evan |
| 0:22.2 | Bernstein. |
| 0:23.2 | Good evening, everybody. |
| 0:24.8 | Rebecca is traveling, so can I join us this week? |
| 0:28.0 | So Evan, you're back in your old slot as covering the stage, Skepticism. |
| 0:32.4 | Yep, and the seat is still warm, I might add. |
| 0:35.0 | That's a bunch. |
| 0:36.0 | August 18, 1986. |
| 0:38.0 | I remember it well. |
| 0:40.2 | I remember it well. |
| 0:42.0 | Fortunately. |
| 0:43.0 | That was a junior in high school. |
| 0:45.0 | And that was a long time ago. |
| 0:46.0 | Wow, yeah, actually, I think that was the year I graduated. |
| 0:48.9 | But on that date, 1986, 72 Nobel Prize winners in science urged the Supreme Court to reject |
| 0:55.8 | a Louisiana law calling for, quote, balanced treatment, unquote, of evolution and creationism |
| 1:01.6 | in public schools. |
| 1:04.4 | So as you can tell, this is not just a more modern phenomenon going on in our society. |
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