The Skeptics Guide #598 - Dec 24 2016

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 24 December 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Brian Switek; Movie Review: Arrival; News Items: Better Outcomes from Female Doctors, Wet Ceres, Light from Anti-matter, Purple Food; Who's That Noisy; 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.
0:12.7	Today is Wednesday, December 21, 2016, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:18.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:20.2	Hey everybody, Cara Santa Maria.
0:22.6	Howdy.
0:23.6	Jenovella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:26.4	Good evening folks.
0:27.9	How are you all doing on this penultimate show of 2016?
0:32.6	I'm excited for the break.
0:35.1	Yeah, I'm excited to take some time off from work and I'm excited for 2016 to go away.
0:41.1	It's all over.
0:42.3	It wasn't all bad.
0:45.3	No, wasn't all bad.
0:46.3	No, but it was a, I mean, it became meamed that it was that bad.
0:51.2	You know what I mean?
0:52.2	There are just like 2016, all the 2016 lists of like all the horrible things that happened
0:55.8	this year.
0:56.8	There are some good science.
0:58.5	Let's be honest.
0:59.5	Yeah, a couple of, a couple of bright spots.
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