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=== Question #1: Shellenberger Letter <small>()</small> ===
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* [https://www.theepochtimes.com/environmentalist-issues-apology-for-misleading-climate-alarmism_3407349.html Epoch Times: Environmentalist Issues Apology for Misleading 'Climate Alarmism']<ref>[https://www.theepochtimes.com/environmentalist-issues-apology-for-misleading-climate-alarmism_3407349.html Epoch Times: Environmentalist Issues Apology for Misleading 'Climate Alarmism']</ref>


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''Voiceover: It's time for Science or Fiction.''
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<blockquote>'''Item #1:''' A new analysis of 130 mammalian species finds that brain overall connectivity and connection efficiency are conserved across all species tested.<ref>[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0641-7 Nature: Conservation of brain connectivity and wiring across the mammalian class]</ref><br>'''Item #2:''' Scientists have discovered that goosebumps are conserved in humans because they protect the skin from frostbite.<ref>[https://hscrb.harvard.edu/news/the-real-reason-behind-goosebumps/ HSCRB: The real reason behind goosebumps]</ref><br>'''Item #3:''' Researchers have found that the average shape of natural rock fragments is a cube.<ref>[https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/16/2001037117 PNAS: Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation]</ref></blockquote>
<br>'''Item #1:''' [Statement(s).]<ref>publication: [url-from-SoF-show-notes link-title]</ref><br>'''Item #2:''' [Statement(s).]<ref>publication: [url-from-SoF-show-notes link-title]</ref><br>'''Item #3:''' [Statement(s).]<ref>publication: [url-from-SoF-show-notes link-title]</ref></blockquote>


=== [Rogue’s] Response ===
=== [Rogue’s] Response ===

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SGU Episode 785
July 25th, 2020
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SGU 784                      SGU 786

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella


Quote of the Week

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Sheri S. Tepper, novelist

Links
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Show Notes
Forum Discussion


Introduction

Voiceover: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.


COVID-19 Update ()

News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

(laughs) (laughter) (applause) [inaudible]

Human Curiosity ()

Twitter Bans QAnon ()

Uncuttable Material ()

Bunny "Ebola" ()

Who's That Noisy? ()

  • Answer to last week’s Noisy: Yoshi vocalizations

New Noisy ()

[brief, vague description of Noisy]

Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups ()

Question #1: Shellenberger Letter ()

Science or Fiction ()

Voiceover: It's time for Science or Fiction.

Item #1: A new analysis of 130 mammalian species finds that brain overall connectivity and connection efficiency are conserved across all species tested.[6]
Item #2: Scientists have discovered that goosebumps are conserved in humans because they protect the skin from frostbite.[7]
Item #3: Researchers have found that the average shape of natural rock fragments is a cube.[8]

[Rogue’s] Response

[Rogue’s] Response

[Rogue’s] Response

[Rogue’s] Response

[Host] Explains [Item #]

[Host] Explains [Item #]

[Host] Explains [Item #]

Answer Item
Fiction Goosebumps
Science {{{science1}}}
Host Result
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Rogue Guess


Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

[Text – author] , [short description]

Signoff/Announcements ()

S: —and until next week, this is your Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.

S: Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, dedicated to promoting science and critical thinking. For more information, visit us at theskepticsguide.org. Send your questions to info@theskepticsguide.org. And, if you would like to support the show and all the work that we do, go to patreon.com/SkepticsGuide and consider becoming a patron and becoming part of the SGU community. Our listeners and supporters are what make SGU possible.

Today I Learned

  • Fact/Description, possibly with an article reference[9]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

References

  1. ↑ Live Science: Why are humans so curious?
  2. ↑ NBC News: Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
  3. ↑ SciTechDaily: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
  4. ↑ Popular Science: What to know about ‘Bunny Ebola,’ the rabbit virus sweeping the Southwest US
  5. ↑ Epoch Times: Environmentalist Issues Apology for Misleading 'Climate Alarmism'
  6. ↑ Nature: Conservation of brain connectivity and wiring across the mammalian class
  7. ↑ HSCRB: The real reason behind goosebumps
  8. ↑ PNAS: Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation
  9. ↑ publication: [url-for-TIL title]

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