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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 158 - 7/30/2008
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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.
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Podcast
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July 30, 2008
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Interview with Banachek
News Items: Edgar Mitchell UFO Claims, UFOs and Terrorism, Gas from Garbage
Your Questions and E-mail: House and the Therapeutic Diagnosis
Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Name That Logical Fallacy
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Logical Fallacies
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I am an avid follower of "House" and have heard him say "The treatment will confirm the diagnosis." This is apparently known as a diagnosis ex juvantibus. Is this an example of "post hoc ergo propter hoc" reasoning? If a treatment is reasonably specific, the reasoning seems sound, yet it seems suspicious. Where am I going wrong?
Anders Starmark
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Banachek
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http://www.banachek.org/nonflash/index.htm
Banachek is a premiere mentalist and scourge of those who would use mentalism to fake "psychic" powers. He discusses his experiences as a mentalist, as a subject of the Alpha Project where he fooled scientists into thinking he had real powers, and his history with Uri Geller.
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Question #1  Fiction
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A new report warns travelers to the Beijing Olympics that the most common illnesses contracted by visitors are malaria and dengue fever.
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Question #2  Science
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New research shows that free radicals are used to signal satiety in the brain, suggesting that anti-oxidants may increase appetite.
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Question #3 Science
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NASA's Cassini probe has confirmed for the first time surface liquid on a body other than earth - an ethane lake on the surface of Titan.
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote
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“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.” - Henri Poincaré
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