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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #457 - Apr 12 2014

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This day In Skepticism: SPAM; News Items: Chilis and Antivaxers, Crowdfunding Pseudoscience, Ocean under Enceladus, Looking Intelligent, Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Justina Case, Car Remotes; Science or Fiction

Transcript

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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.

0:12.8

Today is Monday, April 7th, 2014 and this is your host, Stephen Novella.

0:17.5

Joining me this week are Bob Novella.

0:19.7

Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.

0:21.7

Hello everyone.

0:22.7

Jane Novella.

0:23.7

Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.

0:25.7

Hi everybody, how are you doing?

0:27.1

Good, good.

0:28.1

Super.

0:29.1

So we're recording the show a bit early this week because this show is going up while

0:33.3

we're at Nexus.

0:34.3

I thought we're having such a good time.

0:36.5

Damn right.

0:37.5

There we are.

0:38.5

You know what, we should have done to advertise Nexus is to spam all of our listeners with repeated

0:48.0

requests for them to attend Nexus.

0:49.5

Hey, speaking of that, happy birthday to spam.

0:53.6

Today April 12th is, well kind of.

0:58.3

This is good, a birthday as any back in 1994 was the biggest commercial spamming operation.

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