The Skeptics Guide #603 - Jan 28 2017

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Movie Review: Hidden Figures; News Items: Restricting Science Communication, Fish Scales, Another Bogus Acupuncture Study, Video Games and Violence; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Atom; 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.
0:10.2	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.7	Today is Wednesday, January 25th, 2017, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:18.1	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, Cara Santa Maria.
0:21.8	Howdy.
0:22.8	Jane Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.5	Good evening folks.
0:27.0	So guys, by now you have all seen the movie Hidden Figures.
0:32.0	So I thought, hey, let's review it.
0:34.2	It's kind of like a forgotten superhero of science, right Bob?
0:38.0	Yeah, I actually covered them, I think, uh, early in 2016, did I?
0:42.5	Yeah.
0:43.5	I definitely covered them.
0:44.5	Yeah, oh yeah, I was really, really happy that they made a movie with these three.
0:48.5	And I thought it was wonderful.
0:50.4	I just thoroughly enjoyed it.
0:52.0	And moving in parts too.
0:53.5	So this is a movie about the Mercury program, NASA's Mercury program, but focusing on
1:00.8	three women, Mary Jackson, Catherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughn, who were computers.
1:08.1	They used the term computer to refer to mostly women who would do mathematical computations.
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