The Skeptics Guide #958 - Nov 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Special Guest: George Hrab; Swindler's List: Romance Scam; News Items: Whole Eye Transplant, Hottest Year on Record, Neutron Thickness, Hydrogen Deposit in France, Trust in Science Declining; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Oldest Photo; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.0	Today is Wednesday, November 15th, 2012. Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.8	Today is Wednesday, November 15, 2023,
0:15.6	and this is your host Stephen Novella.
0:17.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.3	Hey everybody, Jane Lovella.
0:20.8	Hey guys, Evan Bernstein.
0:22.9	Why is sometimes a vowel?
0:23.9	Hello.
0:24.9	Hey there.
0:25.9	And our sometimes rogue George Rob.
0:28.5	When my baby smiles at me, I go to Rio.
0:31.1	Oh yeah?
0:32.1	Yeah. Dejan Janeiro. Hi boys. I'm getting spoiled. We're seeing too much of each other and I worry that the flavor is going to get like a piece of juicy fruit.
0:42.6	It's just going to be like, yeah.
0:45.0	Oh yeah, juicy fruit.
0:46.4	We don't see enough for like six seconds, yeah.
0:48.8	Boys, I just had a pretty amazing experience on the interwebs over here.
0:53.2	And I just have to quickly, it's like one of these things as a supposed musician, you know, I get more and more crusty and crumbly and I'm harder and harder to impress, you know, with stuff that I listen to and that I see people send me links all the time and I go, yeah, that's nice. Or people send me a piece of audio and I go, yeah, that's nice. Rarely is it like,
1:13.2	a, a, a, sitting there in tears watching something go by.
1:16.9	I just watched. I just watched.
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