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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 92 - 4/25/2007
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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 25, 2007
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News Items: Is Mental Illness Real, Earth-like Planet Discovered, Criminalizing Holocaust Denial follow up, Pill for Genetic Diseases; Your E-mails and Questions: Bacterial Flagella Follow Up, Vitrification; Name That Logical Fallacy - 9/11 Conspiracy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Segment: Name That Logical Fallacy
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Logical Fallacies
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Hi,
I find your podcasts really interesting and it's interesting to hear the "rational" minded folks too. However I was disappointed with your podcast #89 where you trash everything that is not right off what the mainstream-media is telling you.
While you bash these "celebrities" who speak out for 9/11 investigation, you don't notice that obviously you didn't research history really. It's a proven fact that governments have used false-flag operations to get their thing through. Hitler did it with the Reichstags-fire and blamed it on "communist-terrorists" and then used it as a pretext to implement the enabling-act (which is basically the patriot-act that Bush-Nazi then created with the 9/11 event) and invaded Poland (where Bush then tried to associate 9/11 with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, WMD's).
See parallels?
Only that example already shows how much suspicion one should have when looking at this topic. You might also remember that grandfather Prescott Bush dealt with Hitler-Nazis back then, so how can you not think that these Bush-Nazis are corrupt up to their skull & bones. They already stole at least one election.
Regardless of the physics (steel melting or not, controlled demolition or not, etc.) look at what 9/11 has brought with it and who really benefitted from it: restriction of freedoms, patriot-acts, NSA-spying, Guantanamo Bay, torturing, detention without trial, private contractors in Iraq (Caci, Halliburton, etc.) who were responsible for a lot of the mess that happened at Abu-Ghraib and wasting tax-payers money, military-industrial-complex doing more business than ever, USA turning more and more into a police-state and other scandals over scandals.
How much more do you need it in front of your face? Obviously you don't notice how much business is involved in warfare and that not only Cheney's buddys at Halliburton profited but so many others in that military-industrial-complex.
You should really do your p
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Question #1  Science
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China claims it will use weather control to ensure sunny days for its 2008 Olympic Games.
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Question #2  Fiction
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Researchers have discovered that by compressing water at the nano-scale it will behave as if it were metal.
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Question #3 Science
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Scientists have discovered a giant fossilized rainforest as big as a city in the middle of Illinois.
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Segment: Skeptical Puzzle
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Puzzle
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This Week's Puzzle
It offers plenty of traction, yet barely moves at all
It offers a rosy view, yet may damage your sight
It offers a contrast in style, but don't let your head swell
You'll find your pockets may empty, in more ways than one
What is it?
Last Week's Puzzle
Audio puzzle
Answer: Dennis Lee
Winner: Ole Ivand
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote
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"Death is an engineering problem."
- Bart Kosko (Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic, 1994
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