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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 141 - 4/2/2008
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.
SGU Podcasting Awards: SGU on XM: You can listen to the SGU on America's Talk XM 166 every Saturday night from 8-9pm Eastern.
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Podcast
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April 02, 2008
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News Items: The Skeptologists, Expelled Again, Human-Cow Hybrid, Tantric Killing Fails; Your Questions and E-mails: Debunking Skeptics, Dinosaur Fossils on the Moon; Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Debunking Skeptics
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Hello skeptics
My name is Edgard Polanco, I'm 24 and I'm writing you all the way from Bogota, Colombia (just 4 degrees over the Ecuator line). I've been listening to you from a while now, as a matter of fact the first episode I listened was the one where you announced Perry's death.
Well, I'm an economist and I used to believe really weird stuff... UFOs, ESP, reincarnation... you name it. Thanks to people like you, James Randi, Richard Dawkins and a lot more I'm now a proud skeptic.
I'm sorry for the long introduction but I really have a question. Browsing over the internet I found this page:
http://www.happierabroad.com/Debunking_Skeptical_Arguments.htm
It has a long list of arguments skeptics made when debunking something. Some I can think of an answer but for some (like number 5 and the France tactic) elude me.
I know the time in your show is short and maybe you can't go over the whole list... but I think this would make a nice "Name the logical fallacy".
Thank you for your time, I hope you keep with your show a lot more so I can keep learning nice things (like special relativity)
Edgard Alfonso Polanco
Colombia
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Dinosaur Fossils on the Moon
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Hi,
I'm a great fan of the podcast. Keep up the good work. I wrote before on this matter but never got a reply. But I know you guys are pretty busy. Please write back if you can. I'm a university teacher in Japan and some time ago I told my class that some of the dust on the moon had been found to contain dinosaur bone fragments or dust from fossils that had been blown into the atmosphere during the KT event. I heard this on a reputable podcast like Science Friday or Scientific American but when I tried to find info on the Net I found nothing. I wrote to both of these podcasts but never heard back from them. I felt bad later because despite my interest in skepticism I had passed along something to my class that I later could not verify. Please tell me if you have ever heard of this.
Your avid listener,
David Gann
Japan
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Question #1  {2}
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote
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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” - Hippocrates
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