The Skeptics Guide #972 - Feb 24 2024

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists; News Items: Pesticides in Oats, AI Video, University Rankings Flawed, Mewing and Looksmaxxing, Titan Uninhabitable; Who's That Noisy; 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, February 21st. Hello and welcome to the Skeptus Guide to the Universe.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday, February 21st, 2024,
0:16.2	and this is your host Stephen Novella.
0:18.0	Joining me this week or Bob Novella.
0:19.8	Hey everybody.
0:20.6	Kara Santa Maria.
0:21.8	Howdy.ay novella
0:23.7	hey guys and even birtstein good evening folks how's everyone doing it's fine day
0:28.9	doing all right to shabby all right rain finally stop?
0:33.6	Yeah, we're finally in the middle of an actual winter,
0:35.7	you know, a cold weather and snow and everything.
0:37.2	Really?
0:38.1	Yeah.
0:39.1	15 degrees Fahrenheit this morning.
0:41.0	Ooh, yikes.
0:42.8	We had like three days of non-stop rain, you know, after we already had those two intense
0:47.2	storms, so more mudslides, more flooding.
0:50.1	I heard a lake formed in Death Valley. I heard that too. That's how much rain.
0:56.1	Yeah. Yeah, it's probably gone already.
0:59.1	Standing water for several days. Yes. But it's it's crazy how like powerful the sun is here. I went outside this morning and everything was still really wet and I just let my dog out before recording and it's like almost bone dry outside already.
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