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Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.

Today is Thursday June 22nd 2017 and this is your host Stephen Novella.

Joining me this week are Bob Novella.

Hey everybody.

Jane Novella.

Hey guys.

Evan Bernstein.

Evening folks.

We have a special guest rogue this evening.

Gotta thank

literature, but I grew up in a science family, a family full of doctors and

scientists. So I've always kind of had that interest. But I really, you know, didn't

care a whole lot about, to be honest, skepticism and critical thinking, although I,

I mean, I always was a critical thinker, but I didn't care about the

communication of these issues until after I became a parent and realized that a

lot of the fear-based marketing in rhetoric is targeted at new parents and

especially moms. Yeah, I mean, yeah, mommy shaming over pseudoscience is huge.

It's like a wholesome cottage industry. Right. I mean, and I went, I almost went

down the wrong rabbit hole, I think, after I had my first kid, but fortunately I

went the right way. What do you mean like the almost the woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-suck

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