The Skeptics Guide #742 - Sep 28 2019

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

5-10 Year: Dinochicken; News Items: Fat Shaming, Warp Drive, TVs and Phones Communicating, Second Interstellar Object; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Survivorship Bias; 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.
0:09.3	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:13.0	Today is Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.8	Joining him in this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.7	Hey everybody.
0:20.7	Karris Santa Maria.
0:21.7	Howdy.
0:22.7	Jay Novella.
0:23.7	Hey guys.
0:24.7	And Evan Bernstein.
0:25.7	Good evening folks.
0:27.0	So Evan, what happened with all the storming area 51 hubbub?
0:32.8	That's right.
0:33.8	It was this past weekend, wasn't it?
0:35.8	Yeah.
0:36.8	Oh and there were millions of people signed up to the Facebook page, interested in going,
0:41.6	definitely going.
0:43.5	And the emergency services were notified and two towns went on standby alert because
0:48.3	they couldn't handle.
0:49.3	They wouldn't be able to handle the traffic.
0:51.3	How are they going to accommodate potentially hundreds of thousands of people coming into
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