The Skeptics Guide #980 - Apr 20 2024

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

What's the Word: Anhedonia; News Items: New Scams, Reconductoring, ISS Space Junk, Zombie Cicadas, Death by Wellness; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail: AI Drug Development Correction; 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 Skeptets Guide to the Universe.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday, April 17, 2024,
0:15.7	and this is your host Stephen Novella.
0:17.8	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.6	Hey everybody.
0:20.2	Kara Santa Maria.
0:21.4	Howdy.
0:22.0	Jay novella. Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.0	Good evening everyone.
0:27.0	It's been a few weeks since we've had the usual full crew doing our regular Wednesday thing.
0:32.0	Back at the studio here.
0:33.8	What with the eclipse and all?
0:35.6	Yeah, just a minor distraction, right?
0:40.6	So yeah, I think it's fair to say we all had a great time at Texas and there was a lot of suspense about the eclipse because the weather forecast for the entire 10 days leading up to that Monday was terrible.
0:54.0	Supposed to be an overcast and we were sweating it out the whole time.
0:57.4	And storming.
0:58.9	Yeah, that morning.
1:00.7	I took pictures of me flipping off the cloudy sky like 10 in the morning.
1:06.6	Old man yells at Cloud.
1:08.6	Completely covered.
1:10.3	I was trying to stay positive, but I mean the weather reports were bad.
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