The Skeptics Guide #953 - Oct 14 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Interview with Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes from the Knowledge Fight podcast; Quickie with Bob: Solar Panels at Proxima Centauri; News Items: Oldest Evidence of Humans in Americas, Addictive Foods, Using CRISPR to Make Chickens Flu Resistant, Superheavy Elements, Prehistoric Solar Storms; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nobel Peace Prize; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.8	Today is Wednesday, October 11th, 2023, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:17.3	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Cara Santa Maria, and Jane O'Neill.
0:22.2	Hey guys, Evan Bernstein is in Tax Preparation Hell once again.
0:27.5	This is, I guess, the last week before the final deadline, right, the deadline for the late, you know, the late tax deadline.
0:36.5	Yeah, the late tax deadline.
0:38.5	So, he's busy.
0:40.5	So, guys, you hear the NASA announcement.
0:42.5	It had a big press release.
0:44.5	It had a big media event.
0:45.5	Jane Ey were on live streaming on TikTok and when that happened, you know, it was boring.
0:53.5	It was, you know, it's God bless them NASA.
0:57.5	They tried really hard.
0:59.5	Yeah, right. I mean, it was, I mean, the actual information was interesting, although it was very preliminary.
1:06.5	There wasn't a lot of it and it was basically like a half an hour build up.
1:10.5	Like, you felt you were in a corporate meeting kind of thing, you know.
1:14.5	They really need to upgrade their whole public outreach science communication thing, you know.
1:20.5	At least for their press releases, because I feel like they do, they do such a great job with a lot of stuff, but then these weird announcements.
1:26.5	Yeah, they're always anti-climactic, you know, and then they had something so cool to talk about this time.
1:31.5	And they just managed to bury it so deep in the middle of this just like corporate style presentation thing where like, what are they even talking about?
1:41.5	Like, you know, do you know what I mean?
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