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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #981 - Apr 27 2024

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.77.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

John Oliver and UFOs; News Items: Voyager Fixed, NASA's New Solar Sail, Bird Flu in Milk, Dark Energy Getting Weaker, After Death Communications; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Havana Syndrome; 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 Skeptus Guide to the Universe.

0:12.6

Today is Wednesday, April 24,

0:15.0

this is your host, Stephen Novella.

0:17.5

Joining me this week are Bob Novella.

0:19.2

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

0:21.0

Kara Santa Maria. Howdy. Jay Novella. Welcome. everyone. Um, did you take happy pills?

0:33.0

What's happened?

0:34.0

That drew us all off there, Bob.

0:35.0

I guess you don't watch John Oliver J.

0:37.0

That's John Oliver's typical intro to last week tonight.

0:40.5

Every episode.

0:41.3

And why would you be saying such a thing Bob why do I need a do I need a reason oh yes I was told I got a text from Christian

0:51.0

who bicki our roboticist buddy, and I was like, oh boy, and I went down and I immediately,

0:57.5

I had no time because I had to leave for work, so I just fast forwarded to the scene and I shot of our a screen chart of our logo that was on screen

1:05.8

What we're talking about so yeah let's do that was on UFOs which is a little bit unusual for Oliver, but, and early in the segment, he's talking about the fact that even Jimmy Carter saw an unidentified

1:20.3

flying object, and not like a alien alien spacecraft but just like a

1:23.2

UFO and unidentified object and we interviewed Jimmy Carter about that and on our

1:30.0

interview with them he insisted that although he didn't know what he saw was, it was

1:36.2

not the planet Venus.

1:38.0

Insistent.

1:39.0

He was insistent.

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