The Skeptics Guide #522 - Jul 11 2015

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 11 July 2015

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Forgotten Superhero of Science: Charles H. Townes; News Items: New Sleep Recommendations, A Logic Lesson, Dragon Lizards and Climate; Limits of Phase Change Computer Memory; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Cruciferous Vegetables, Education and Paranormal Belief; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.4	Your escape to reality.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.7	Today is Monday, July 6th, 2015, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.3	Join him in the sweet car, Bob Novella.
0:19.6	Hey everybody.
0:20.6	Jane Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:24.1	Good evening folks.
0:25.7	Hey, did you guys see that we were outed as Big Farma Shields?
0:32.0	What?
0:33.0	All right, which one of you told?
0:34.5	It's still waiting for my first check, but I guess they're really, really slow to do.
0:39.1	Yeah, it's a satire site called thespud.com.
0:43.5	A satire.
0:44.5	Fake article about the group anonymous hacked Big Farma as if that were a thing.
0:51.1	Yeah, right.
0:52.1	It's hackable.
0:53.6	Yeah, it's an entity, like their database, Big Farma's database, and they downloaded the
0:58.9	list of all of their paid Farma Shields and they started releasing it.
1:03.3	It's basically just a list of skeptics, including themselves.
1:07.5	But the skeptics guide to the universe is listed along with all of its hosts.
1:15.8	And I was listed separately as well.
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