The Skeptics Guide #793 - Sep 19 2020

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 Update; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: June Almeida; News Items: Life on Venus, QAnon, Taxonomy of Lying and Cheating, AI Peer Review; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bear Follow Up, Burning Forests; 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.
0:08.8	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.7	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.7	Hey everybody, Cara Santa Maria.
0:21.7	Howdy.
0:22.7	It's Jane Novella.
0:23.7	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.6	Good evening folks.
0:27.0	I know Cara, your whole side of the country is on fire over there, huh?
0:30.7	Not good.
0:31.7	Very sad.
0:32.7	How are you doing?
0:33.7	I'm okay.
0:34.7	So I live in East LA just below and to the west of passes.
0:39.7	So I'm like southwest of Pasadena in a neighborhood called Eagle Rock.
0:44.1	And there is a fire called the Bobcat Fire, which is burning the Angeles National Forest
0:48.2	right now.
0:49.2	Actually encroaching on Mount Wilson, which is really sad and scary.
0:52.4	That's scary.
0:53.4	I know.
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