The Skeptics Guide #805 - Dec 12 2020

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 Update; News Items: Chuck Yeagar dies at 97, The Smellicopter, COVID Anti-Vaxxers, Are We Ready for Aliens; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Protein Folding; Name That Logical Fallacy: More Slippery Slope; 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.
0:08.6	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:13.5	Today is Wednesday, December 9, 2020 and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:18.0	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.6	Hey everybody, Cara Santa Maria.
0:21.6	Howdy.
0:22.6	Jane Novella.
0:23.6	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.2	Good evening folks.
0:26.6	All right, so, got a good show coming up today.
0:29.9	We're going to be talking about some COVID anti-vaccine nonsense a little bit later.
0:34.1	So, just going to do a quick, sort of opening banter COVID update.
0:38.0	But I did find a couple of news items today that are both interesting and almost completely
0:43.6	contradictory to each other.
0:45.1	But so, the question, now the vaccines are rolling out, right?
0:48.7	Question is who gets them first?
0:50.3	And pretty much there seems to be pretty much agreement that frontline healthcare workers
0:55.6	should be, you know, getting them first.
0:58.4	Like the most vulnerable people and the people who take care of, directly take care of
1:04.0	COVID patients.
1:05.0	So, there was two studies I saw both coming out today looking at, well, what is the actual
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