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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #547 - Jan 2 2016

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Psychic Prediction 2015; News Items: HIV Blood Donations, The Genetics of Intelligence, British Smiles; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word; Science or Fiction

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the skeptic sky to the universe. Your escape to reality.

0:10.0

Hello and welcome to the skeptic sky to the universe. Today is Tuesday, December 22, 2015,

0:15.6

and this is your host, Stephen Nevella. Joining me to sweep our Bob Nevella.

0:19.6

Hey everybody, Cara Santa Maria. Howdy.

0:22.1

Jane Nevella, Star Wars Episode 7, and Evan Bernstein. What do you guys think?

0:31.1

We saw the movie on Saturday. Cara was with us and I had one of the best days in my adult life.

0:38.1

It was very enjoyable. The whole thing was good. Get a lot of fun with the party, watching the movie, the anticipation, the lightsaber, everything was good.

0:45.1

And we even did a special review.

0:47.1

Yes, which we're going to try to post producing it out as quickly as we can.

0:50.1

I'm working on it right now. But Cara got her lightsaber and then I promptly took it away from her because I'm going to send it back and have them fix something that wasn't 100% right with it.

1:04.1

The lightsaber doesn't light on one side, so you got to send it back to the North Pole.

1:09.1

That would be the dark side. But overall the lightsabers were epic.

1:13.1

Oh yeah. We dressed up in different ways for the event on Saturday. I dressed as the Farm Boy Luke Skywalker from Episode 4.

1:22.1

I was R2-D2.

1:23.1

Oh, good, Jay. Yeah, that was fun.

1:25.1

BEEP BEEP.

1:26.1

All right, Steve, no spoilers. But did you get choked up at all during this film?

1:32.1

Yeah, there were definitely a couple of moments that were there for the fans, the hardcore fans, absolutely.

1:38.1

Yeah, emotionally very, very good movie, intellectually some problems with the writing.

1:44.1

It really didn't really detract from the overall and just enjoyment of the experience of the movie.

1:48.1

I do hope that the writing gets a little bit better going forward.

1:52.1

But again, my thing is Star Wars has never been really hard science fiction.

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