The Skeptics Guide #757 - Jan 11 2020

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Psychic Predictions 2019 Review; News Items: Virtual Humans, GM Trees, Australian Fires, Engrams, Puffin Tool Use; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptic sky to the universe.
0:06.5	Your escape to reality.
0:09.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptic sky to the universe.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday January 8th, 2020 and this is your host, Steven novella.
0:17.3	Joining me this week are Bob novella.
0:19.1	Hey everybody, Kara Santa Maria.
0:21.3	Howdy.
0:22.3	Jane novella.
0:23.3	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.1	Welcome to the new decade.
0:26.9	Yes, this is our third decade as the S.U.
0:29.5	Although we're getting emails even arguing about that.
0:33.0	Oh, we got those 10 years ago by the same P.S.U.
0:36.4	of people that you know complain about.
0:38.4	Well, it's not the next decade until 2021.
0:41.9	It's a completely unresolvable controversy.
0:45.2	I mean, yeah, you can make an argument either way, but colloquially, decades are like the
0:50.2	20s, the 30s, the 40s.
0:51.2	It starts with the same number.
0:53.0	So that to me that overrides everything.
0:55.1	People were in locality.
0:56.1	That's what it is.
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