The Skeptics Guide #734 - Aug 3 2019

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

What's the Word: Buffering; News Items: Signals from Earth, Acupuncture for Angina, Asteroid Near Miss, Rainmakers, Lyme Conspiracy; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Law of Truly Large Numbers; 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, July 31st, 2019 and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:17.9	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.7	Hey everybody, Karen from Santa Maria.
0:21.7	Howdy.
0:22.7	Jenovella.
0:23.7	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:26.1	Good evening folks.
0:27.4	So are you guys surviving the heat?
0:28.9	Well, I'm much for choice.
0:31.3	I feel bad for our friends in Europe who are sweltering.
0:35.3	Yeah, they had some serious heat.
0:37.3	Ooh, records left and right in Europe.
0:39.9	Alaska too is apparently breaking all kinds of records.
0:42.5	Well, get used to it.
0:43.9	Yeah, right.
0:44.5	I mean, here we go.
0:46.1	I mean, how quickly could we see a change in temperatures?
0:50.6	Like, meaning could they go down even?
0:52.8	Or would they ever go down in our lifetime?
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