SGU Episode 368
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Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
This Day in Skepticism ( )
August 4 1921 - First fax sent
News Items
Superstition Fund ()
Curiosity's Sky Crane ()
Anti-Fluoride News Fail ()
Bat-Winged Monkey Bird ()
Who's That Noisy? ()
Answer to last week: Sigmund Freud
Interview with Brian Wecht ()
Science or Fiction ()
Item number one. Researchers claim evidence of an unknown species of hominid not from fossils but from the dna of hunter-gatherers from Cameroon and Tanzinia. Item number two. Study finds that brain imaging can predict how intellient you are. And item number three. Theory shows that Ultra-high energy cosmic rays are likely caused by the collision of 3 or more super-massive black holes.
Skeptical Quote of the Week ()
Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up… the main thing that I learned about conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in the conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy, or the grey aliens, or the twelve-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control, the truth is far more frightening; no-one is in control, the world is rudderless.
J: Alan Moore!
Announcements ()
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