SGU Episode 854

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SGU Episode 854
November 20th 2021
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SGU 853                      SGU 855
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
B: Bob Novella
C: Cara Santa Maria
J: Jay Novella
E: Evan Bernstein
Guest
GH: George Grab, American musician & podcaster
Quote of the Week
Trust in science has a critical role to play with respect to increasing public support for science funding, enhancing science education, and separating trustworthy from untrustworthy sources. However, trust in science does not fix all evils and can create susceptibility to pseudoscience if trusting means not being critical.
Dolores Albarracín, American psychologist
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Introduction

Voice-over: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

S: Hello and welcome to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. Today is Saturday, September 4, 2021, and this is your host, Steven Novella. (applause) Joining me this week are Bob Novella...

B: Hey, everybody!

S: Cara Santa Maria...

C: Howdy.

S: Jay Novella...

J: Hey, guys.

S: ...and Evan Bernstein.

E: Hello, everyone!

S: And, we have a special in-studio guest with us, George Hrab!

News Items

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B:

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E:

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

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News_Item_3 ()

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News_Item_4 ()

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News_Item_5 ()

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Who's That Noisy? ()

New Noisy ()

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Science or Fiction ()

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Host	Result
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Rogue	Guess

Voice-over: It's time for Science or Fiction.

Theme: Fruit Item #1: Item #2: Item #3:

Description

This template is used in the Episode skeleton to more easily facilitate entering the text and weblinks for Science or Fiction items and articles given in the relevant Episode's shownotes.
Special Note: each SOF item can have 2 references. See Episode 964's SOF segment for an example.

Examples

With three items and a theme topic (currently Episodes 883 and 967 are the only ones with a "hidden theme"), the text and linked references will render thus:

With no theme and with all items having no web reference in the show notes (common with "Myths about __" or "Facts about __" that often come with Live Shows), the text will render thus, with "No reference given" seen in the References section:

Usage

You can copy/paste the following code into your page.

{{SOFinfo
|theme		= 		<!-- delete or leave blank if no theme -->
|hiddentheme	= 		<!-- delete or leave blank if no "hidden theme", e.g. Ep. 883 -->
<!-- if you want to conceal the Hidden Theme, use the markup below; it is used in Episodes 883 and 967, and can accommodate italic markups (''_text_'') and tooltips: {{tooltip|_HIDDEN_THEME_|_FLOATING_COMMENT_}}

<div align=left ><span class="mw-customtoggle-myDivision"><u>Click/tap to reveal </u></span>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-myDivision"><p style="line-height:100%">_HIDDEN_THEME_</p></div>

-->
|item1		= _item_text_from_show_notes_
|link1web	= url_from_SoF_show_notes	<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link1pub	= _publication_			<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link1title	= _article_title_		<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link1web2	= THIS_TEMPLATE_ALLOWS_A_SECOND_REFERENCE_FOR_EACH_ITEM <!-- delete or leave blank if no 2nd reference for this item -->
|link1pub2	= _publication_			<!-- delete or leave blank if no 2nd reference for this item -->
|link1title2	= _article_title_		<!-- delete or leave blank if no 2nd reference for this item -->

|item2		= _item_text_from_show_notes_
|link2web	= url_from_SoF_show_notes	<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link2pub	= _publication_			<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link2title	= _article_title_		<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->

|item3		= _item_text_from_show_notes_
|link3web	= url_from_SoF_show_notes	<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link3pub	= _publication_			<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link3title	= _article_title_		<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->

|item4		= _item_text_from_show_notes_	<!-- delete or leave blank if no 4th item -->
|link4web	= url_from_SoF_show_notes	<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link4pub	= _publication_			<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link4title	= _article_title_		<!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|}}

Adding notes to items

Additionally, if necessary, you can add note1=, note2=, note3=, and/or note4= into the table parameters to append any information to any of the items, such as to clarify an error in the item text or to provide additional links. See Episode 934, Episode 926, and Episode 665 for examples. Use note= for a generic comment.

Alternatively, you could add a comment (Transcriptionist's note: LIKE THIS), such as in the SOF Info table for episode 856, using the Tnote template: |note = {{tnote|}}

Two-references items

In Episode 964, the SOF items reference two different articles, so the SOF Info template was updated to allow for these second references. All that is necessary to input a second reference for an SOF item is to duplicate the link# parameters and add 2 after each one (e.g., link4title2). See the Usage example above, which includes fields for a second reference for the first SOF item.

References

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Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

Trust in science has a critical role to play with respect to increasing public support for science funding, enhancing science education and separating trustworthy from untrustworthy sources. However, trust in science does not fix all evils and can create susceptibility to pseudoscience if trusting means not being critical
– Dolores Albarracín, director of the Science of Science Communication Division and the Social Action Lab at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center.

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.

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