The Skeptics Guide #425 - Sep 7 2013

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 7 September 2013

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This Day in Skepticism: Last Thylacine; News Items: NASA Spiders, Chicken Wings and Penis Size, TCM for Flu, New Element 115; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pox Parties, Aromatherapy; 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.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.5	Today is Wednesday, September 4, 2013, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.3	Joining me to speak our Bob Novella.
0:19.1	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:20.9	Hello, everyone.
0:22.1	Jane Novella.
0:23.1	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.3	Hello, I'm John F. LeChanatova for a good year.
0:36.9	Happy New Year to all of our SGU friends out there.
0:40.5	I always thought it was funny where people just said, okay, so this is year one.
0:45.0	Right now we're in year one.
0:46.4	But to be start out with year one or year zero.
0:49.2	It should be zero.
0:50.2	Oh, we can't.
0:51.2	We don't want to have that conversation again.
0:53.7	Fair enough.
0:54.7	Yeah, they totally screwed up.
0:55.7	But yeah, our calendar, they didn't decide until hundreds of years later.
1:00.5	I think it was like getting close to the first millennium before it was in wide use.
1:06.4	Yes, nobody even got the joy of living in year one because they didn't know it at the
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