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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 217 - 9/12/2009
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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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September 12, 2009
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Live from NECSS with Special Guest Richard Wiseman
News Items: Charlie Sheen 911 Truther, Quantum Amnesia, Hulda Clark Dead, Gonzalez Therapy Fail, What's in Your Wallet, Exomoons, Great Tits Eat Bats
Special Report: The Yale Study
Science or Fiction
Live QA
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Special Report
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The Yale Study
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Richard Wiseman discusses the famous Yale Study of motivation, which does not exist.
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item # 1  Fiction
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A new survey shows that in the last 20 years the number of working scientists who have been contacted by journalists about their research has decreased by about 50%.
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Item # 2  Science
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The Chemical Abstracts Service announced that on September 7th it recorded it 50 millionth unique chemical substance.
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Item # 3 Science
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Research reveals that factors that predict recovery from the psychological trauma of 9/11 and similar events include less emotional control.
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Segment: Live Q&A
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Live Q&A
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The SGU takes lives questions from the audience.
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
- Christopher Hitchens
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