The Skeptics Guide #386 - Dec 8 2012

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 8 December 2012

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; This Day in Skepticism: Atoms for Peace; News Items: End of the World, Bug UFO Follow Up, Inattentional Amnesia, Curiosity Kurfuffle, Grand Canyon Age, Moon Formation; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:06.6	Your escape to reality.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.9	Today is Wednesday, December 5, 2012 and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:18.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:20.4	Hey everybody, Jane Novella.
0:22.5	Hey guys, Evan Bernstein.
0:24.7	Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
0:26.4	Welcome back to the Skeptics Guide.
0:33.2	I don't think I'm a special guest rogue.
0:36.4	This is like my 8 billionth time so we're always special.
0:40.3	But it's always nice to be here.
0:41.9	Thank you for having me on again.
0:43.3	Rebecca is down under at the Australian Skeptics Conference and so she will not be joining
0:49.2	us this week so Phil is kindly sitting in.
0:52.9	And this is a good week.
0:53.9	This is one of those weeks where there was a ton of news items.
0:57.0	It was really hard to choose.
0:59.0	Sometimes it's a little bit of feast or famine with the science news items.
1:03.4	This was definitely a week where we had more to choose from than we really could and
1:07.0	a lot of astronomy news.
1:08.3	So it's great to have you with us for those.
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