The Skeptics Guide #568 - May 28 2016

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 28 May 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Special Guests: Richard Wiseman and Hai-Ting Chinn; What's the Word: Autotomy; News Items: Watch Pseudoscience, Tabletop Particle Accelerators, GMO Sugar, Facebook News Algorithm, Blinking; 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.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:13.3	Today is Saturday, May 14, 2016, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:26.6	Joining me to sweep our Bob Novella.
0:30.6	Hey everybody.
0:33.6	Karris Santa Maria.
0:35.6	Jenovela.
0:42.6	Evan Bernstein.
0:47.6	And we have a special guest actually backed by popular demand, Richard Wisefield.
0:57.6	He's been like a year.
0:59.6	How popular was that?
1:01.6	It was building.
1:03.6	It was building.
1:05.6	We had to get the follow up to the dead dog in my garden story.
1:09.6	So we had to bring it back to tell us.
1:11.6	You said there's a very interesting follow up.
1:14.6	Last time I was on your show, I mentioned I had a dead dog in my garden.
1:20.6	And it's still there.
1:22.6	It's still deceased.
1:24.6	It hasn't made me bid for freedom.
1:27.6	So it's still dead. That's the update.
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