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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #955 - Oct 28 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

What's the Word: Benthic vs Pelagic; News Items: Age of the Moon, CVS and Homeopathy, Black Holes Do Spin, Paranormal Investigators and Police, Human Epoch; Who's That Noisy; You Questions and E-mails: Driverless Cars, Home Air Filters; Science or Fiction

Transcript

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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.

0:12.5

Today is Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, and this is your host, Steven Novella.

0:17.0

Jordan and this week are Cara Santa Maria, Jenovela, and Evan Bernstein.

0:23.0

Good evening everyone.

0:24.5

Bob had an emergency, he can't be with us at the moment.

0:28.0

You might join us later, or you might record his bit tomorrow.

0:32.0

So you still may hear him in the show, but he's not starting to show with us unfortunately.

0:37.0

It's especially unfortunate because this is the last episode we're recording before Halloween.

0:42.0

I know.

0:43.0

It's a special day.

0:44.0

Yeah, Bob is peak Halloween right now.

0:49.0

Yeah, we went to Jay and I, and our family went to his haunt on the weekend.

0:55.0

This was like the best year for his haunt, they did a super good job.

0:58.0

Does it get better and better every year?

1:00.0

Yeah, but I mean, it's, I would say, some years are a lateral move.

1:04.0

You know what I mean?

1:05.0

It's just different every year.

1:06.0

And the overall production quality is pretty high, but this year there was definitely a jump I think in the production quality from prior years.

1:13.0

There was some really good, one thing that I've never seen at a previous haunt.

1:17.0

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I just, I've personally never seen it.

1:19.0

Is they managed to bring in an old school bus, right?

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