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|date = Nov 9 2010
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|date = Sep 21 2010
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|date = Sep 12 2010
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|date = Aug 13 2010
|contents = Chiropractic - Part 3
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|contents = Chiropractic - Part 2
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|date = Jun 29 2010
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|date = Dec 20 2009
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|date = Nov 18 2009
|contents = Naturopathy
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|date = Oct 28 2009
|contents = Polygraphs
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|date = Aug 12 2009
|contents = The Coriolis Effect
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|date = Jul 16 2009
|contents = Randi Million Dollar Psychic Challenge and Connie Sonne
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|date = May 22 2009
|contents = Near Death Experiences
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|contents = Skepticism 101 - How to Argue
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|contents = Atlantis
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|date = Dec 15 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - The Argument from Ignorance
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|date = Dec 8 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Argument from Authority
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|date = Dec 1 2008
|contents = The 10% Brain Myth
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|date = Nov 18 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Correlation and Causation
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|date = Nov 11 2008
|contents = Chi and other forms of vitalism
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|date = Oct 29 2008
|contents = Holocaust Denial
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|contents = Skepticism 101 - The Ideomotor Effect
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|contents = The Shroud of Turin - Shroud scientists try to resurrect the controversy
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|contents = Skepticism 101 - Occam's Razor
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|date = Aug 4 2008
|contents = Digital Homeopathy 20 years after Benveniste
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|contents = Evaluation of a UCONN study of therapeutic touch on bone cells in culture
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|contents = The SGU celebrates the 39th anniversary of Apollo 11 by debunking some moon landing hoax myths, and they are joined by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer.
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|category2 = Conspiracy Theories
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|date = July 13 2008
|contents = Exposing the logical fallacy of equating faith healing with medical care.
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|date = July 06 2008
|contents = Cracking the Dogu Code - Ancient Astronauts
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = UFOs & Aliens
|category3 = Pseudoscience
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|date = June 29 2008
|contents = New study sheds light on genetic vs environmental contributions to sexuality.
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|episode = 25
|date = June 22 2008
|contents = NASA Plans Probe to the Sun.
|category1 = Astronomy & Space Science
|category2 = Technology
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|date = June 15 2008
|contents = New strategy for SETI - The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.
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|date = June 08 2008
|contents = Lame car design analogy to intelligent design from the Discovery Institute.
|category1 = Creationism & ID
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
|category3 = Nature & Evolution
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|date = June 01 2008
|contents = Researchers allow monkey to control robotic arm with its mind.
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|date = May 25 2008
|contents = Family claims women miraculously brought back to life after rigor mortis
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|date = May 18 2008
|contents = SPAM Chainletter e-mails do not spread as virally as thought
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|date = May 11 2008
|contents = The Science of Science Fiction Movies
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|date = May 4 2008
|contents = Man Regenerates Finger - Bad Science News Reporting
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|date = Apr 27 2008
|contents = T-Rex proteins closely related to chickens
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
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|date = Apr 20 2008
|contents = Surgery under hypnosis.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
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|episode = 15
|date = Apr 13 2008
|contents = Examining a fossilized snake - with legs.
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
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|episode = 14
|date = Apr 6 2008
|contents = Nomophobia - the fear of being out of cell phone range.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
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|episode = 13
|date = Mar 30 2008
|contents = Man convicted of molestation claims he was raped by Bigfoot
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|category2 = Legal Issues & Regulations
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|episode = 12
|date = Mar 23 2008
|contents = Faith-healing cult leads to child death from medical neglect
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|date = Mar 16 2008
|contents = Art project to give the city of Portland, Oregon acupuncture
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|status = verified
|date = Mar 9 2008
|contents = Steven Spielberg to create new paranormal online community
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|status = verified
|date = Mar 2 2008
|contents = An Emmy award winning actress and her 911 conspiracy theory
|category1 = Conspiracy Theories
|category2 = Entertainment
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|status = verified
|date = Feb 23 2008
|contents = Cryptozoology - Hunting for the Thunderbird
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|date = Feb 17 2008
|contents = Proposed center for exorcism in Poland
|category1 = Ghosts & Demons
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|status = verified
|date = Feb 11 2008
|contents = Dr. Harris's Pain Relief Snake Oil Infomercial
|category1 = Cons, Scams & Hoaxes
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|contents = Pope Benedict XVI takes on science
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|episode = 4
|date = Jan 28 2008
|contents = Do celebrity deaths come in threes? The rogues take on numerology
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
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|contents = Multilevel Marketing and Pyramid Schemes
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|contents = Ghost Photographs
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5X5 Episode 32

2012-10-25T09:31:33Z

Equus simplicidens: Transcription

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== Skepticism 101 - Occam's Razor ==

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S: This is the SGU 5x5 and this is the first in a series of installments that we're going to do on the 5x5 about skepticism 101. We're going to pick specific skeptical topics and we're going to discuss them - give a thorough definition and discuss the applications of them. We're going to start with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor Occam's razor]. Now, Occam's razor is a heuristic or a principle, a rule of thumb, that is also called the Law of Parsimony, which means that when multiple answers are possible for any hypothesis, that the one that introduces the fewest new assumptions is the one that's most likely to be correct. It doesn't mean that it has to be correct, but it means all other things being equal, the simplest--and by simplest, meaning the one that introduces the few newest bits or newest assumption--is the one that is preferred and is most likely to be true.

E: Occam's razor was named after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham William of Occam] who was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Franciscan] theologian, a writer and an influential philosopher from the 14th century. He struggled against the common practice of describing nature using abstractions there were untestable. Of the many quotes that are attributed to him, perhaps his best known one--I won't bore you with the Latin--but it translates as, "Plurality is never to be posited without necessity." It wasn't until many centuries later that the term Occam's razor first appeared in 1852 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Hamilton,_9th_Baronet Sir William Rowan Hamilton], who was a mathematician, a physicist and an astronomer and he was the first to actually coin the actual term Occam's razor.

B: This isn't just some rule of thumb for debunking wild paranormal claims. One of the canonical examples of Occam's razor occurred over a hundred years ago. The equations of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_einstein Einstein's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity theory of relativity] were the same as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz Lorentz's]. Lorentz's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory theory] contracted rulers and slowed clocks during movement through the aether; Einstein's theory did the same, but without the aether, since the aether could not be detected, Occam's razor sliced it away.

S: Yeah, it was one assumption more than was absolutely necessary in order to explain everything.

R: But, of course, these days it can be applied to crazy paranormal things, like, for instance, you come across a cow that's had its innards cored out and you can assume either that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation#Aliens_and_UFOs aliens] came down and sucked out its anus, so to speak, or you can assume that small predatory animals fed upon a dead cow and went for the mushy bits first. One of those explanations requires us to re-evaluate everything we know about life in the universe and the other one can be easily explained by what we already know about life on earth. So Occam's razor would suggest we go with the animals.

S: Interestingly, you bring up the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufology UFO mythology]. UFO proponents sometimes try to site Occam's razor in favor of their beliefs: that we are being visited by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_alien extraterrestrial aliens]. They say that skeptics have a different answer for everything: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circles crop circles] are hoaxed, UFO sightings are misidentified objects, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction alien abductions] are waking dreams and they have one explanation for everything. They're all due to alien visitations. Therefore, their explanation is simpler and should be favored by Occam's razor. But here's the mistake they're making: they're misinterpreting Occam's razor as the simplest explanation, rather than the explanation that introduces the fewest new assumptions. We know that people hoax crop circles, that people have waking dreams, that they misidentify objects in the sky. That is not introducing anything new into our knowledge about the world, about ourselves, about the universe, but the introduction of the concept that the earth is being visited by a space faring extraterrestrial race is a major introduction of a new assumption and therefore Occam's razor does not favor that. But that's a very common abuse or misuse of Occam's razor.

B: So, it could be simpler, but it could be less correct as well, so you've got to watch out for that.

S: If it's simply adding one massive new assumption, that's not favored by Occam's razor.

M: Another classic example would be the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism heliocentric] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentrism geocentric] model of the solar system. In order to explain the motion of Mercury relative to Venus, the geocentric model posited the existence of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicycles epicycles] within the orbit of Mercury. The heliocentric model was able to explain this by putting the sun at the center of the solar system, rather than have the earth at the center of the solar system.

S: And so, even though initially the heliocentric system really wasn't anymore accurate than the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy Ptolemaic] system of epicycles, but it was just vastly simpler.

M: Right.

S: And then, of course, eventually it was later verified by more accurate observations, so you still need that. Occam's razor doesn't tell you what must be true, it just tells you what's most likely to be true. At least, the things you need to rule out before you accept a less parsimonious explanation.

E: So it has a role in the scientific method, in that respect.

S: Absolutely. Yeah, it's essentially thought of as a heuristic of scientific thinking. Certainly, it's something that is lacking in many of the paranormal believers' arguments. They often will leap over known and simple explanations to hypothesize completely unknown new realities in blatant violation of the principle of Occam's razor.

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5X5 Episode 32

2012-10-25T08:51:36Z

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|date = Jan 5 2011
|contents = Graphology
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|category2 = Pseudoscience
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|date = Dec 30 2010
|contents = Harry Houdini
|category1 = History
|category2 = Paranormal
|category3 = Ghosts & Demons
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|date = Dec 20 2010
|contents = Repressed Memories
|category1 = Neuroscience & Psychology
|category2 = Science & Medicine
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|date = Nov 9 2010
|contents = Magnets
|category1 = General Science
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|date = Sep 21 2010
|contents = Chelation
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Alternative Medicine
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|date = Sep 12 2010
|contents = Nostradamus
|category1 = Prophecy
|category2 = History
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|episode = 93
|date = Aug 13 2010
|contents = Chiropractic - Part 3
|category1 = Science & Medicine
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|date = Jul 28 2010
|contents = Chiropractic - Part 2
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = History
|category3 = Legal Issues & Regulations
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|date = Jul 13 2010
|contents = Chiropractic - Part 1
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = History
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 90
|date = Jun 29 2010
|contents = The Unification Church
|category1 = Religion & Faith
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|date = Dec 20 2009
|contents = Irreducible Complexity
|category1 = Creationism & ID
|category2 = Nature & Evolution
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|episode = 81
|date = Nov 18 2009
|contents = Naturopathy
|category1 = Alternative Medicine
|category2 = Science & Medicine
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|episode = 80
|date = Oct 28 2009
|contents = Polygraphs
|category1 = Technology
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|episode = 75
|date = Aug 12 2009
|contents = The Coriolis Effect
|category1 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 72
|date = Jul 16 2009
|contents = Randi Million Dollar Psychic Challenge and Connie Sonne
|category1 = Pseudoscience
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 68
|date = May 22 2009
|contents = Near Death Experiences
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Science & Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 67
|date = Apr 30 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Special Pleading
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 65
|date = Apr 16 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Scientific Theory
|category1 = General Science
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|episode = 62
|date = Mar 19 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - How to Argue
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 56
|date = Feb 4 2009
|contents = Probability
|category1 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
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|date = Jan 28 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Poisoning the Well
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
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|date = Jan 21 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - False Dichotomy
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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|status = verified
|date = Jan 13 2009
|contents = Anecdotal Evidence
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
|category3 = General Science
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|episode = 52
|date = Jan 6 2009
|contents = Atlantis
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
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|date = Dec 15 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - The Argument from Ignorance
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 49
|date = Dec 8 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Argument from Authority
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 48
|date = Dec 1 2008
|contents = The 10% Brain Myth
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 46
|date = Nov 18 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Correlation and Causation
|category1 = General Science
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
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|episode = 45
|date = Nov 11 2008
|contents = Chi and other forms of vitalism
|category1 = Energy Healing
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 43
|date = Oct 29 2008
|contents = Holocaust Denial
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = History

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|episode = 39
|date = Aug 1 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - The Ideomotor Effect
|category1 = Neuroscience & Psychology
|category2 = Paranormal
|category3 = Pseudoscience
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 38
|date = Sep 24 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Pareidolia
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
|category2 = Neuroscience & Psychology
|category3 = Paranormal
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 33
|date = Aug 20 2008
|contents = The Shroud of Turin - Shroud scientists try to resurrect the controversy
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Religion & Faith
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 32
|date = Aug 11 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Occam's Razor
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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|episode = 31
|date = Aug 4 2008
|contents = Digital Homeopathy 20 years after Benveniste
|category1 = Homeopathy
|category2 = Pseudoscience
|category3 = Cons, Scams & Hoaxes
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 30
|date = Jul 29 2008
|contents = Evaluation of a UCONN study of therapeutic touch on bone cells in culture
|category1 = Alternative Medicine
|category2 = New Age
|category3 = Science & Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 29
|date = July 20 2008
|contents = The SGU celebrates the 39th anniversary of Apollo 11 by debunking some moon landing hoax myths, and they are joined by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer.
|category1 = Astronomy & Space Science
|category2 = Conspiracy Theories
|category3 = History
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 28
|date = July 13 2008
|contents = Exposing the logical fallacy of equating faith healing with medical care.
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
|category2 = Pseudoscience
|category3 = Science & Medicine
}}
|-
{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 27
|date = July 06 2008
|contents = Cracking the Dogu Code - Ancient Astronauts
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = UFOs & Aliens
|category3 = Pseudoscience
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 26
|date = June 29 2008
|contents = New study sheds light on genetic vs environmental contributions to sexuality.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Nature & Evolution
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 25
|date = June 22 2008
|contents = NASA Plans Probe to the Sun.
|category1 = Astronomy & Space Science
|category2 = Technology
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 24
|date = June 15 2008
|contents = New strategy for SETI - The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.
|category1 = Astronomy & Space Science
|category2 = Technology
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 23
|date = June 08 2008
|contents = Lame car design analogy to intelligent design from the Discovery Institute.
|category1 = Creationism & ID
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
|category3 = Nature & Evolution
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|episode = 22
|date = June 01 2008
|contents = Researchers allow monkey to control robotic arm with its mind.
|category1 = Technology
|category2 = Neuroscience & Psychology
|category3 = Science & Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 21
|date = May 25 2008
|contents = Family claims women miraculously brought back to life after rigor mortis
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Science & the Media
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 20
|date = May 18 2008
|contents = SPAM Chainletter e-mails do not spread as virally as thought
|category1 = Technology
|category2 = Cons, Scams & Hoaxes
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 19
|date = May 11 2008
|contents = The Science of Science Fiction Movies
|category1 = Entertainment
|category2 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 18
|date = May 4 2008
|contents = Man Regenerates Finger - Bad Science News Reporting
|category1 = Science & the Media
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 17
|date = Apr 27 2008
|contents = T-Rex proteins closely related to chickens
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
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{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 16
|date = Apr 20 2008
|contents = Surgery under hypnosis.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 15
|date = Apr 13 2008
|contents = Examining a fossilized snake - with legs.
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
|category2 = Creationism & ID
|category3 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 14
|date = Apr 6 2008
|contents = Nomophobia - the fear of being out of cell phone range.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Technology
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 13
|date = Mar 30 2008
|contents = Man convicted of molestation claims he was raped by Bigfoot
|category1 = Cryptozoology
|category2 = Legal Issues & Regulations
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 12
|date = Mar 23 2008
|contents = Faith-healing cult leads to child death from medical neglect
|category1 = Alternative Medicine
|category2 = Energy Healing
|category3 = Religion & Faith
}}
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|episode = 11
|date = Mar 16 2008
|contents = Art project to give the city of Portland, Oregon acupuncture
|category1 = Alternative Medicine
|category2 = Energy Healing
|category3 = Entertainment
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 10
|status = verified
|date = Mar 9 2008
|contents = Steven Spielberg to create new paranormal online community
|category1 = Paranormal
|category2 = Entertainment
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 9
|status = verified
|date = Mar 2 2008
|contents = An Emmy award winning actress and her 911 conspiracy theory
|category1 = Conspiracy Theories
|category2 = Entertainment
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 8
|status = verified
|date = Feb 23 2008
|contents = Cryptozoology - Hunting for the Thunderbird
|category1 = Cryptozoology
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 7
|status = verified
|date = Feb 17 2008
|contents = Proposed center for exorcism in Poland
|category1 = Ghosts & Demons
|category2 = Religion & Faith
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 6
|status = verified
|date = Feb 11 2008
|contents = Dr. Harris's Pain Relief Snake Oil Infomercial
|category1 = Cons, Scams & Hoaxes
|category2 = Alternative Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 5
|date = Feb 3 2008
|contents = Pope Benedict XVI takes on science
|category1 = Religion & Faith
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{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 4
|date = Jan 28 2008
|contents = Do celebrity deaths come in threes? The rogues take on numerology
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Paranormal
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|episode = 3
|date = Jan 21 2008
|contents = Multilevel Marketing and Pyramid Schemes
|category1 = Cons, Scams & Hoaxes
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{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 2
|date = Jan 13 2008
|contents = Ghost Photographs
|category1 = Paranormal
|category2 = Ghosts & Demons
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|status = verified
|episode = 1
|date = Jan 6 2008
|contents = The National Health Service of the UK plans to regulate alternative medicine
|category1 = Alternative Medicine
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|episode = 113
|date = May 9 2012
|contents = What's the Harm?
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
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|episode = 112
|date = May 2 2012
|contents = Anecdotal Evidence
|category1 = Legal Issues & Regulations
|category2 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category3 = Neuroscience & Psychology
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|episode = 111
|date = Apr 25 2012
|contents = Facilitated Communication
|category1 = Pseudoscience
|category2 = Myths & Misconceptions
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|episode = 110
|date = Apr 11 2012
|contents = Naturalistic Fallacy
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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|date = Apr 4 2012
|contents = Celebrity Pseudoscience
|category1 = Pseudoscience
|category2 = Entertainment
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|episode = 108
|date = Mar 28 2012
|contents = Cancer Cure
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Conspiracy Theories
|category3 = Pseudoscience
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|episode = 107
|date = Mar 21 2012
|contents = Chilean UFO
|category1 = UFOs & Aliens
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|episode = 106
|date = Mar 19 2012
|contents = Availability Heuristic
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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|episode = 105
|date = Mar 7 2012
|contents = Representativeness Heuristic
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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|episode = 104
|date = Feb 22 2012
|contents = WiFi
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
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|episode = 103
|date = Feb 15 2012
|contents = Creationism
|category1 = Creationism & ID
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|date = Feb 8 2012
|contents = Biofuels
|category1 = General Science
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|date = Jan 26 2011
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Slippery Slope/Post Hoc
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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|episode = 100
|date = Jan 13 2011
|contents = Testable
|category1 = General Science
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|episode = 99
|date = Jan 5 2011
|contents = Graphology
|category1 = History
|category2 = Pseudoscience
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|episode = 98
|date = Dec 30 2010
|contents = Harry Houdini
|category1 = History
|category2 = Paranormal
|category3 = Ghosts & Demons
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|episode = 97
|date = Dec 20 2010
|contents = Repressed Memories
|category1 = Neuroscience & Psychology
|category2 = Science & Medicine
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|episode = 96
|date = Nov 9 2010
|contents = Magnets
|category1 = General Science
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|episode = 95
|date = Sep 21 2010
|contents = Chelation
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Alternative Medicine
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|episode = 94
|date = Sep 12 2010
|contents = Nostradamus
|category1 = Prophecy
|category2 = History
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|episode = 93
|date = Aug 13 2010
|contents = Chiropractic - Part 3
|category1 = Science & Medicine
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|episode = 92
|date = Jul 28 2010
|contents = Chiropractic - Part 2
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = History
|category3 = Legal Issues & Regulations
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|episode = 91
|date = Jul 13 2010
|contents = Chiropractic - Part 1
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = History
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|episode = 90
|date = Jun 29 2010
|contents = The Unification Church
|category1 = Religion & Faith
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 83
|date = Dec 20 2009
|contents = Irreducible Complexity
|category1 = Creationism & ID
|category2 = Nature & Evolution
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{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 81
|date = Nov 18 2009
|contents = Naturopathy
|category1 = Alternative Medicine
|category2 = Science & Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 80
|date = Oct 28 2009
|contents = Polygraphs
|category1 = Technology
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|episode = 75
|date = Aug 12 2009
|contents = The Coriolis Effect
|category1 = General Science
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|episode = 72
|date = Jul 16 2009
|contents = Randi Million Dollar Psychic Challenge and Connie Sonne
|category1 = Pseudoscience
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 68
|date = May 22 2009
|contents = Near Death Experiences
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Science & Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 67
|date = Apr 30 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Special Pleading
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 65
|date = Apr 16 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Scientific Theory
|category1 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 62
|date = Mar 19 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - How to Argue
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 56
|date = Feb 4 2009
|contents = Probability
|category1 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 55
|date = Jan 28 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Poisoning the Well
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 54
|date = Jan 21 2009
|contents = Skepticism 101 - False Dichotomy
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 53
|status = verified
|date = Jan 13 2009
|contents = Anecdotal Evidence
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
|category3 = General Science
}}
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|episode = 52
|date = Jan 6 2009
|contents = Atlantis
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 50
|date = Dec 15 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - The Argument from Ignorance
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 49
|date = Dec 8 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Argument from Authority
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 48
|date = Dec 1 2008
|contents = The 10% Brain Myth
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = General Science
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 46
|date = Nov 18 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Correlation and Causation
|category1 = General Science
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
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|episode = 45
|date = Nov 11 2008
|contents = Chi and other forms of vitalism
|category1 = Energy Healing
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 43
|date = Oct 29 2008
|contents = Holocaust Denial
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = History

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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 38
|date = Sep 24 2008
|contents = Skepticism 101 - Pareidolia
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
|category2 = Neuroscience & Psychology
|category3 = Paranormal
}}
|-
{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 33
|date = Aug 20 2008
|contents = The Shroud of Turin - Shroud scientists try to resurrect the controversy
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = Religion & Faith
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|-
{{5X5 list entry
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|episode = 31
|date = Aug 4 2008
|contents = Digital Homeopathy 20 years after Benveniste
|category1 = Homeopathy
|category2 = Pseudoscience
|category3 = Cons, Scams & Hoaxes
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|-
{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 30
|date = Jul 29 2008
|contents = Evaluation of a UCONN study of therapeutic touch on bone cells in culture
|category1 = Alternative Medicine
|category2 = New Age
|category3 = Science & Medicine
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 29
|date = July 20 2008
|contents = The SGU celebrates the 39th anniversary of Apollo 11 by debunking some moon landing hoax myths, and they are joined by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer.
|category1 = Astronomy & Space Science
|category2 = Conspiracy Theories
|category3 = History
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 28
|date = July 13 2008
|contents = Exposing the logical fallacy of equating faith healing with medical care.
|category1 = Logic & Philosophy
|category2 = Pseudoscience
|category3 = Science & Medicine
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 27
|date = July 06 2008
|contents = Cracking the Dogu Code - Ancient Astronauts
|category1 = Myths & Misconceptions
|category2 = UFOs & Aliens
|category3 = Pseudoscience
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 26
|date = June 29 2008
|contents = New study sheds light on genetic vs environmental contributions to sexuality.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Nature & Evolution
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 25
|date = June 22 2008
|contents = NASA Plans Probe to the Sun.
|category1 = Astronomy & Space Science
|category2 = Technology
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 24
|date = June 15 2008
|contents = New strategy for SETI - The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.
|category1 = Astronomy & Space Science
|category2 = Technology
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 23
|date = June 08 2008
|contents = Lame car design analogy to intelligent design from the Discovery Institute.
|category1 = Creationism & ID
|category2 = Logic & Philosophy
|category3 = Nature & Evolution
}}
|-
{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 22
|date = June 01 2008
|contents = Researchers allow monkey to control robotic arm with its mind.
|category1 = Technology
|category2 = Neuroscience & Psychology
|category3 = Science & Medicine
}}
|-
{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 21
|date = May 25 2008
|contents = Family claims women miraculously brought back to life after rigor mortis
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Science & the Media
}}
|-
{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 20
|date = May 18 2008
|contents = SPAM Chainletter e-mails do not spread as virally as thought
|category1 = Technology
|category2 = Cons, Scams & Hoaxes
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 19
|date = May 11 2008
|contents = The Science of Science Fiction Movies
|category1 = Entertainment
|category2 = General Science
}}
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 18
|date = May 4 2008
|contents = Man Regenerates Finger - Bad Science News Reporting
|category1 = Science & the Media
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{{5X5 list entry
|episode = 17
|date = Apr 27 2008
|contents = T-Rex proteins closely related to chickens
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
}}
|-
{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 16
|date = Apr 20 2008
|contents = Surgery under hypnosis.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
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|-
{{5X5 list entry
|status = incomplete
|episode = 15
|date = Apr 13 2008
|contents = Examining a fossilized snake - with legs.
|category1 = Nature & Evolution
|category2 = Creationism & ID
|category3 = General Science
}}
|-
{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 14
|date = Apr 6 2008
|contents = Nomophobia - the fear of being out of cell phone range.
|category1 = Science & Medicine
|category2 = Technology
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|-
{{5X5 list entry
|status = verified
|episode = 13
|date = Mar 30 2008
|contents = Man convicted of molestation claims he was raped by Bigfoot
|category1 = Cryptozoology
|category2 = Legal Issues & Regulations
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{{5X5 list entry
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== The SGU celebrates the 39th anniversary of Apollo 11 by debunking some moon landing hoax myths, and they are joined by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer. ==

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S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight's topic is: A celebration of the 39th anniversary of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 Apollo 11] mission. And to celebrate that, we are going to debunk a few bits of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax moon hoax landing claims] and to help us do that, we have a special guest tonight, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Plait Phil Plait], the [http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html Bad Astronomer]. Phil, thanks for joining us.

P: Hey, thanks for having me on.

S: So, the claim that I wanted to talk about was one that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan Joe Rogan] brought up when he was debating you on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Jillette Penn Gillette's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Radio radio show].

(laughter)

S: He mentioned that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun Wernher Von Braun] went to Antarctica before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program Apollo missions], allegedly to collect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_meteorite moon meteorites] and throwing out the implication, without really fully developing this point, that there was something suspicious about that, as if [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA NASA] had to collect moon meteorites so that they could then pass them off as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_rock moon rocks] that they never actually collected from the moon. I did a bit of digging and let me tell you what I found about this, you can tell me what you think. In the last 40 years, the total amount of moon meteorites that have been collected--and this is by multiple countries and expeditions--is about ten pounds. The six Apollo service excursions collected about 842 pounds of moon rock samples. Rogan would be basically claiming that in the year or two prior to the Apollo missions, NASA was able to collect hundreds of pounds of moon meteorites and then in the 40 years since then we've only managed to collect another 10 pounds or so. Does that sound about right to you?

P: Well, none of that sounds right to me.

(laughter)

P: You know, anything Joe Rogan said about the moon hoax is probably wrong. You know, if you want to say that Wernher Von Braun, who was basically the head of the space program for the United States back then, if you want to say he went to Antarctica, you can always phrase it so that it's suspicious, "He went to ''Antarctica'', now ''why'' did he do that?" It's like well-

(laughter)

P: "Why did Joe Rogan bring that up? That's suspicious ''too''." You know, everything is-

B: Right.

P: -suspicious if you phrase it that way and why would NASA send its chief rocket engineer, the guy who's running the program and is one of the public faces of the Apollo mission, to Antarctica to pick up rocks? You know what they do is, they would send two goons to go down there and ''why would they go to Antarctica?'' You know, it's like you can get these rocks in other places and if you're going to fake the rocks anyway, which is the claim, why are you going to Antarctica at all, unless you're just going to collect a few and use them as a model to fake them. But if you're going to go to Antarctica, you send a couple of goons, they pick up some rocks, they come back, you say, "Thank you for those rocks and that guy other wants to talk to you behind that barn--yeah, the guy with the gun-

(laughter)

P: That's right, just don't say anything, but head on over." So, this is a ridiculous claim from top to bottom.

R: Phil, you've been debunking this stuff for so long, is there anything new under the sun when it comes to the moon hoax?

E: Hmm.

P: Well actually when Rogan brought up the Von Braun thing, I had heard of that but I wasn't that familiar with it, so he had stumped me there for a second, until I thought around the problem and said, "Well, why would Von Braun go?" And it turns out he's interested in Antarctica. ''I'm'' interested in Antarctica, I want to go. Not terribly suspicious. But you do hear some crazy claims and the big ones, well, all of them have been debunked basically. These claims of Nazis working for NASA and the radiation and all these ridiculous claims. And eventually you get to stuff that is so fringe that you just kind of shake your head and say, "Really, there are aliens on the moon and that's why NASA couldn't go. Alright, well, we'll run with that one too."

B: If these rocks aren't from the moon, then they've got 800 pounds of rocks that are fakes, so how could they make them realistic and if you look at these rocks, it's pretty clear to geologists that these are ''not'' from the earth, for many, many reasons. First off, I've got a list of a few here: that there's no water trapped in the crystal structure of the rocks samples that they supposedly brought back from the moon; the clay minerals that are all over the earth are completely absent in any of the moon rocks they brought back; there's other things, like glass particles were found in the lunar samples that they brought back and these lunar samples are caused by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism volcanism] and impacts. Now on earth, they disappear in millions of years, but the rocks they brought back are clearly billions of years old and they still have these glass particles contained in them. Also, another good one is that the moon rocks have pits all over the rocks, they're these little microscopic pits caused by meteors that are not burning up in the moon atmosphere because there is no atmosphere, so they're making these pits all over the moon rocks. And the same goes for cosmic rays: you've got cosmic rays that are not being absorbed by the atmosphere, they're hitting the rocks and they're making isotopes that you don't generally see in any earth rocks. Now to fake that, sure you could fake that, but you'd have to build an accelerator bigger than the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhc LHC] to do that and that's clearly not going to happen. Some people have said that to fake rocks in this way you'd have to - it'd have to be like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhatten_project Manhattan Project]-sized thing and I think it would just be easier to go to the moon and get some.

P: Yeah, that's really the problem with a lot of these hoax theories is that in the end, to make a convincing hoax, it would have cost more and been harder-

(laughter)

P: -just to simply go to the moon. Everything you brought up is true. The big one is really these-

B: Right.

P: -zap pits - these little tiny - they're like little craters in the rocks and they're caused by very tiny meteorites, called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometeorite micrometeorites], they're dust grains and when they hit the lunar surface, they're still moving at a pretty good clip, 20 miles-per-second or whatever. Those don't make it through the earth's atmosphere, they burn up, you know, way, way up in the earth's atmosphere. So you don't see those on rocks here on the earth. So NASA had to have been smart enough to anticipate that rocks on the moon would have these zap pits, they would have to anticipate that these rocks would have funny isotopes in them from the cosmic rays hitting them, they'd have to anticipate that they'd have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3 helium-3], which is an isotope of helium found in the solar wind, but is very rare on earth. All of this stuff. And then in the end, you got to realize too that NASA has been sending these samples out all over the world to qualified geologists to look at these things. And so, they have been sent to Russia, to China, to many countries that would consider themselves the enemy of America, at least at the time, and so they would have been yelling fairly loudly and clearly if they had figured out that these things were faked. So, the really [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor Occam's razor], if you want to slice through all the garbage, in the end the simplest explanation is that somebody went to the moon and threw these things into a gunny suck and brought them back.

E: And Phil one of the - something else you've talked about in the past and you've mentioned it's usually the first and strongest argument that the moon hoax believers use is that the pictures that came back that the Apollo astronauts took, that came back, there are no stars in the sky and how is that possible? Where did all the stars go? Perhaps it was - must have just been a movie set. That would be kind of be an Occam's razor, I guess.

B: Just an oversight, they forgot about the stars.

(laughter)

E: But actually this was, and even before I've read anything you've written Phil, I kind of figured this one out of on my own and frankly, if I can figure it out, I think just about anyone can figure it out, is that conditions on the moon are obviously vastly different than they are on the earth and the conditions under which the lighting was happening, you've got the bright surface of the moon, you've got the bright ship, you've got the astronauts in their bright suits; if you were to open the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_%28photography%29 exposure] on your lens bright enough to actually be able to see the stars, everything else would get blown out, the pictures would be totally worthless of the things you're trying to capture, the scenes on the moon. So you have to turn down your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture aperture] enough so you can get the detail of these bright objects on the moon and because the stars are in the background and they are ''so'' faint by comparison, they're gone - they're not going to appear on the picture.

P: Yeah, that's basically it. They used [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed slow film], they had their aperture stopped way down and the exposure times were roughly 1/150th of a second. And you just - you can't capture stars on film that quickly, it just doesn't happen and if you tried to, you'd overexpose everything else and it's incredible to me that this claim is still being made; I was actually fooling-

B: Wow.

P: -around on YouTube today and saw a video where this guy's making this same claim. He is actually saying you should see stars in the pictures. I couldn't ''believe'' it. He actually went and quoted Bill Casing, who is this guy who's been claiming this for years that the moon landings were faked and he said, ''"You should see trillions of star."'' And I thought well-

B: (laughing) Trillions.

(laughter)

P: -yeah, there are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, I don't think you're going to do so well to see trillions of stars.

(laughter)

P: And they still claim, and I love this, no Apollo mission got any pictures of any stars and it's like, well, two things: One is that we didn't go to the moon to take pictures of the stars--we can do that pretty well from the earth--and the second thing is that that's wrong. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16 Apollo 16] went to the moon with an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_photography ultraviolet camera] and a small telescope and they actually took ultraviolet pictures of the sky where you can see stars and if you go online you can find people who have actually matched these stars up to stars in the sky. So, they did in fact take pictures of the stars, but they had to use a special apparatus to do it. Otherwise, these pictures taken on the surface of the moon just don't show the stars.

S: Phil, one last question for you. This is kind of just a personal opinion thing: Why do you think it's been almost four decades since we've been back to the moon?

P: Oh, lack of political will, basically. By the time we had gone to the moon and shown we had done it, the American public was - they were all for it for Apollo 11, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12 Apollo 12] the ratings had dropped, right and by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13 Apollo 13] they were saying they were interrupting "I Love Lucy" reruns for this and people were getting upset. That's just the nature of the American public, they get tired of it. And the politicians were looking to the future, they started cutting back on Apollo, started funding basically the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle space shuttle], which launched in 1980 and you know it takes a long time to build these things up. So, by the time we'd landed on the moon, people were already looking to the next thing. So, instead of looking for something that was sustainable, they were doing what's called "flags and footprints": get there, put your foot on the ground there, plant your flag and get back. And so, they started looking to the space shuttle, started looking to other things and we just haven't gone back. And now NASA's starting to take it seriously and they're launching the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter] this year which will start mapping potential landing sites and I'll be very excited to see the data that comes back from that.

S: And you think the next time we go back, we'll [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_base go back to stay]?

P: I have no idea. NASA is a fickle organization and they are a cork in the current of political tides. I don't know how far I can push that analogy. The next president could cut that back, the next Congress could cut that back, there's no telling. I'm certainly hoping that we're going to go back to the moon and go there to stay; I think that's the right thing to do, but you never know with NASA.

S: Phil, thank you for joining us for 5x5.

P: Hey, no problem, thanks for having me on.

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== The SGU celebrates the 39th anniversary of Apollo 11 by debunking some moon landing hoax myths, and they are joined by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer. ==

{{5x5intro}}

S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight's topic is: A celebration of the 39th anniversary of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 Apollo 11] mission. And to celebrate that, we are going to debunk a few bits of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax moon hoax landing claims] and to help us do that, we have a special guest tonight, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Plait Phil Plait], the [http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html Bad Astronomer]. Phil, thanks for joining us.

P: Hey, thanks for having me on.

S: So, the claim that I wanted to talk about was one that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan Joe Rogan] brought up when he was debating you on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Jillette Penn Gillette's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Radio radio show].

(laughter)

S: He mentioned that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun Wernher Von Braun] went to Antarctica before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program Apollo missions], allegedly to collect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_meteorite moon meteorites] and throwing out the implication, without really fully developing this point, that there was something suspicious about that, as if [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA NASA] had to collect moon meteorites so that they could then pass them off as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_rock moon rocks] that they never actually collected from the moon. I did a bit of digging and let me tell you what I found about this, you can tell me what you think. In the last 40 years, the total amount of moon meteorites that have been collected--and this is by multiple countries and expeditions--is about ten pounds. The six Apollo service excursions collected about 842 pounds of moon rock samples. Rogan would be basically claiming that in the year or two prior to the Apollo missions, NASA was able to collect hundreds of pounds of moon meteorites and then in the 40 years since then we've only managed to collect another 10 pounds or so. Does that sound about right to you?

P: Well, none of that sounds right to me.

(laughter)

P: You know, anything Joe Rogan said about the moon hoax is probably wrong. You know, if you want to say that Wernher Von Braun, who was basically the head of the space program for the United States back then, if you want to say he went to Antarctica, you can always phrase it so that it's suspicious, "He went to ''Antarctica'', now ''why'' did he do that?" It's like well-

(laughter)

P: "Why did Joe Rogan bring that up? That's suspicious ''too''." You know, everything is-

B: Right.

P: -suspicious if you phrase it that way and why would NASA send its chief rocket engineer, the guy who's running the program and is one of the public faces of the Apollo mission, to Antarctica to pick up rocks? You know what they do is, they would send two goons to go down there and ''why would they go to Antarctica?'' You know, it's like you can get these rocks in other places and if you're going to fake the rocks anyway, which is the claim, why are you going to Antarctica at all, unless you're just going to collect a few and use them as a model to fake them. But if you're going to go to Antarctica, you send a couple of goons, they pick up some rocks, they come back, you say, "Thank you for those rocks and that guy other wants to talk to you behind that barn--yeah, the guy with the gun-

(laughter)

P: That's right, just don't say anything, but head on over." So, this is a ridiculous claim from top to bottom.

R: Phil, you've been debunking this stuff for so long, is there anything new under the sun when it comes to the moon hoax?

E: Hmm.

P: Well actually when Rogan brought up the Von Braun thing, I had heard of that but I wasn't that familiar with it, so he had stumped me there for a second, until I thought around the problem and said, "Well, why would Von Braun go?" And it turns out he's interested in Antarctica. ''I'm'' interested in Antarctica, I want to go. Not terribly suspicious. But you do hear some crazy claims and the big ones, well, all of them have been debunked basically. These claims of Nazis working for NASA and the radiation and all these ridiculous claims. And eventually you get to stuff that is so fringe that you just kind of shake your head and say, "Really, there are aliens on the moon and that's why NASA couldn't go. Alright, well, we'll run with that one too."

B: If these rocks aren't from the moon, then they've got 800 pounds of rocks that are fakes, so how could they make them realistic and if you look at these rocks, it's pretty clear to geologists that these are ''not'' from the earth, for many, many reasons. First off, I've got a list of a few here: that there's no water trapped in the crystal structure of the rocks samples that they supposedly brought back from the moon; the clay minerals that are all over the earth are completely absent in any of the moon rocks they brought back; there's other things, like glass particles were found in the lunar samples that they brought back and these lunar samples are caused by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism volcanism] and impacts. Now on earth, they disappear in millions of years, but the rocks they brought back are clearly billions of years old and they still have these glass particles contained in them. Also, another good one is that the moon rocks have pits all over the rocks, they're these little microscopic pits caused by meteors that are not burning up in the moon atmosphere because there is no atmosphere, so they're making these pits all over the moon rocks. And the same goes for cosmic rays: you've got cosmic rays that are not being absorbed by the atmosphere, they're hitting the rocks and they're making isotopes that you don't generally see in any earth rocks. Now to fake that, sure you could fake that, but you'd have to build an accelerator bigger than the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhc LHC] to do that and that's clearly not going to happen. Some people have said that to fake rocks in this way you'd have to - it'd have to be like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhatten_project Manhattan Project]-sized thing and I think it would just be easier to go to the moon and get some.

P: Yeah, that's really the problem with a lot of these hoax theories is that in the end, to make a convincing hoax, it would have cost more and been harder-

(laughter)

P: -just to simply go to the moon. Everything you brought up is true. The big one is really these-

B: Right.

P: -zap pits - these little tiny - they're like little craters in the rocks and they're caused by very tiny meteorites, called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometeorite micrometeorites], they're dust grains and when they hit the lunar surface, they're still moving at a pretty good clip, 20 miles-per-second or whatever. Those don't make it through the earth's atmosphere, they burn up, you know, way, way up in the earth's atmosphere. So you don't see those on rocks here on the earth. So NASA had to have been smart enough to anticipate that rocks on the moon would have these zap pits, they would have to anticipate that these rocks would have funny isotopes in them from the cosmic rays hitting them, they'd have to anticipate that they'd have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3 helium-3], which is an isotope of helium found in the solar wind, but is very rare on earth. All of this stuff. And then in the end, you got to realize too that NASA has been sending these samples out all over the world to qualified geologists to look at these things. And so, they have been sent to Russia, to China, to many countries that would consider themselves the enemy of America, at least at the time, and so they would have been yelling fairly loudly and clearly if they had figured out that these things were faked. So, the really [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor Occam's razor], if you want to slice through all the garbage, in the end the simplest explanation is that somebody went to the moon and threw these things into a gunny suck and brought them back.

E: And Phil one of the - something else you've talked about in the past and you've mentioned it's usually the first and strongest argument that the moon hoax believers use is that the pictures that came back that the Apollo astronauts took, that came back, there are no stars in the sky and how is that possible? Where did all the stars go? Perhaps it was - must have just been a movie set. That would be kind of be an Occam's razor, I guess.

B: Just an oversight, they forgot about the stars.

(laughter)

E: But actually this was, and even before I've read anything you've written Phil, I kind of figured this one out of on my own and frankly, if I can figure it out, I think just about anyone can figure it out, is that conditions on the moon are obviously vastly different than they are on the earth and the conditions under which the lighting was happening, you've got the bright surface of the moon, you've got the bright ship, you've got the astronauts in their bright suits; if you were to open the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_%28photography%29 exposure] on your lens bright enough to actually be able to see the stars, everything else would get blown out, the pictures would be totally worthless of the things you're trying to capture, the scenes on the moon. So you have to turn down your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture aperture] enough so you can get the detail of these bright objects on the moon and because the stars are in the background and they are ''so'' faint by comparison, they're gone - they're not going to appear on the picture.

P: Yeah, that's basically it. They used [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed slow film], they had their aperture stopped way down and the exposure times were roughly 1/150th of a second. And you just - you can't capture stars on film that quickly, it just doesn't happen and if you tried to, you'd overexpose everything else and it's incredible to me that this claim is still being made; I was actually fooling-

B: Wow.

P: -around on YouTube today and saw a video where this guy's making this same claim. He is actually saying you should see stars in the pictures. I couldn't ''believe'' it. He actually went and quoted Bill Casing, who is this guy who's been claiming this for years that the moon landings were faked and he said, ''"You should see trillions of star."'' And I thought well-

B: (laughing) Trillions.

(laughter)

P: -yeah, there are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, I don't think you're going to do so well to see trillions of stars.

(laughter)

P: And they still claim, and I love this, no Apollo mission got any pictures of any stars and it's like, well, two things: One is that we didn't go to the moon to take pictures of the stars--we can do that pretty well from the earth--and the second thing is that that's wrong. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16 Apollo 16] went to the moon with an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_photography ultraviolet camera] and a small telescope and they actually took ultraviolet pictures of the sky where you can see stars and if you go online you can find people who have actually matched these stars up to stars in the sky. So, they did in fact take pictures of the stars, but they had to use a special apparatus to do it. Otherwise, these pictures taken on the surface of the moon just don't show the stars.

S: Phil, one last question for you. This is kind of just a personal opinion thing: Why do you think it's been almost four decades since we've been back to the moon?

P: Oh, lack of political will, basically. By the time we had gone to the moon and shown we had done it, the American public was - they were all for it for Apollo 11, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12 Apollo 12] the ratings had dropped, right and by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13 Apollo 13] they were saying they were interrupting "I Love Lucy" reruns for this and people were getting upset. That's just the nature of the American public, they get tired of it. And the politicians were looking to the future, they started cutting back on Apollo, started funding basically the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle space shuttle], which launched in 1980 and you know it takes a long time to build these things up. So, by the time we'd landed on the moon, people were already looking to the next thing. So, instead of looking for something that was sustainable, they were doing what's called "flags and footprints": get there, put your foot on the ground there, plant your flag and get back. And so, they started looking to the space shuttle, started looking to other things and we just haven't gone back. And now NASA's starting to take it seriously and they're launching the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter] this year which will start mapping potential landing sites and I'll be very excited to see the data that comes back from that.

S: And you think the next time we go back, we'll [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_base go back to stay]?

P: I have no idea. NASA is a fickle organization and they are a cork in the current of political tides. I don't know how far I can push that analogy. The next president could cut that back, the next Congress could cut that back, there's no telling. I'm certainly hoping that we're going to go back to the moon and go there to stay; I think that's the right thing to do, but you never know with NASA.

S: Phil, thank you for joining us for 5x5.

P: Hey, no problem, thanks for having me on.

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S: This is the SGU 5x5 and the topic for this week is Val Thomas, who is a woman who had several heart attacks-she's 59-years-old-she was rushed to a West Virginia hospital and the story is pretty typical of someone who has a cardiac arrest in the field. She was resuscitated, although they had a hard time getting her back. She was worked on for a couple of hours. During - at one point they cooled her body and then warmed her back up. She was by reports on a ventilator the entire time, but she did not respond to the resuscitation, she appeared not to have any pulse or rhythm. The doctors and the family agreed that she wasn't going to make it and she was actually being kept on a ventilator so that she could be potentially an organ donor and then, 'miraculously' she awoke and survived the experience.

J: She could not have been brain dead obviously. What would you consider her to be during that time period?

S: The real story here is the absolutely horrific science reporting. This was probably not reported by a science journalist. The details are kind of all mixed up; they don't really hold together as a solid story and I looked in vain for even the slightest skeptical or critical reporting of this story on the internet. Every version of this story was essentially the same one. A lot of things don't make sense about this story as it was told. Now it's being promoted as a miraculously recovery, doctors are literally - baffled is the word that's being used. We like to joke around that 'doctors are baffled' or 'scientists are baffled' - those are the headlines. The family reported that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigor_mortis rigor mortis] had set in. None of these details make any sense whatsoever. They never did the kind of examination that would be necessary to declare somebody brain dead and there's no mention of that being done. I think, again, the reporting is very loose: they're throwing around terms like rigor mortis and brain death, etc., without really knowing what they mean.

B: The one thing that really gets to me is the way they're throwing around rigor mortis. I really don't think they know what this means. At one point in the story, it said 'Val Thomas, 59, suffered two heart attacks, had no pulse and rigor mortis had set in.' Apparently her son, Jim Thomas, said at one point her skin had already started to harden and her fingers curled. I think that's what he's taking as being rigor mortis. If she actually experienced rigor mortis and came back then that would be truly a miracle and that clearly did not happen. Rigor mortis does not start until two to four hours have passed unless you're in an extreme environment which I don't think she was in. And rigor mortis basically is - what's going on with rigor mortis is the muscle cells are contracting and it actually takes energy or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate ATP] for muscle cells to uncontract, so it's kinda - they kinda go into this default state and it takes a while to get there, about two to three hours and she clearly was not dead.

S: And that's after tissue death-right, that's after tissue-your muscle tissue has been dead for three hours.

J: Plus they had her on a ventilator. If they had her on a ventilator, that means that she was having circulation.

S: That's exactly right. You wouldn't put somebody and keep somebody on a ventilator if they literally had no heart pumping and no circulation at all; there would be no purpose for it.

E: Back to the point about the poor reporting on this, because, the story is a couple days old. I did go back to see if anybody did any follow-up reporting on this story. I could not find anything-

S: Uh-huh.

E:-I - you had to kind of dig into even just the comments on some of these sites that are carrying the article. I'm looking for a doctor's opinion or something substantial here that stabs at an explanation of what's been going on. The most interesting post I did see by someone is that they had a prediction: 1) The medical details of the report were not accurate and 2) The fine people at the SGU podcast would be covering this topic. So that was the most interesting comment I could find.

S: Very astute.

M: Doctor Kevin Eggleston is actually quoted as saying she had no neurological function. Does that mean the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeg EEG] was flat?

S: We're not given any of those details. We don't know if she had an EEG, we don't know if anybody did a neurological exam, if there was even a neurological consult called. It could have just meant she was just unresponsive. That is not a meaningful statement. We're not given the details necessary to put it into any kind of context. What is happening here - one possibility about the rigor mortis is that she was ''cooled'' at one point and ''cooling'' does cause the muscles to contract and shrink a little bit and that could have been misinterpreted by the family as rigor mortis and then passed onto the absolutely credulous journalists who didn't do their job and try to figure out what was actually going on here. Plus - I'm sure that her perfusion was very very poor. She probably had a very faint heart rhythm and her pulse was too soft to pick up. You can miss the pulse of somebody if it's very very faint. These kinds of things happen all the time. Lots of people get resuscitated in the hospital. They may be prematurely declared dead or they may have a pulse that was not picked up on and then they can surprisingly come out of it because they were being ventilated, they were breathing or they - their heart was beating, they were getting some circulation. So this not unusual. What's unusual is just the extent to which the science reporting has degenerated and these stories are now popping up with regularity as medical miracles baffling doctors and it's all nonsense.

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S: This is the SGU 5x5 and the topic for this evening is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomophobia nomophobia] or the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. This is being promoted as a new phobia and is being characterized as a plague of our 24/7 age. Articles on this topic estimate that as many as 13 million Britons may be affect by this disorder, nomophobia. Up to 53% of mobile phone users. I say the whole thing is a bunch of malarkey.

E: It sure smells like malarkey to me.

B: I don't think it is.

R: 53% of mobile phone users have a phobia?

B: That claim might be--yeah--that might be inflated. I'm not disputing the fact that that number--I don't think that number is necessarily correct, but the fact that it's a phobia of sorts, sure. What does it take--

S: What do you mean by 'of sorts'? You said the word phobia--the word phobia is being overused.

R: Yeah.

S: Let me read for you the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders DMS-IV] diagnostic criteria for a phobia. So this is the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual. This is the book by which psychological/psychiatric diagnoses are officially characterized. So here are the diagnostic criteria: 'A marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation. Exposure to the phobic stimulus almost invariably invokes and immediate anxiety response which may take the form of a situationally bound or situationally predisposed panic attack. The person recognizes that the fear is excessive or unreasonable. The phobic situation is avoided or else is endured with intense anxiety or distress. The avoidance, anxious anticipation or distress in the feared situation interferes significantly with the person's normal routine, occupational or academic functioning or social activities or relationships or there is marked distress about having the phobias.' So, there are some other little details but that you have to reach a certain threshold before you start slapping the word 'phobia' on it. People might have some reasonable anxiety about their phone going dead and then missing a phone call or being inconvenienced by that. But in order to say that it's a phobia, it has to be excessive or unreasonable, provoke an anxiety attack and actually disrupt your normal routine or life. I doubt that 53% of phone users reach that threshold or anything even near that number.

B: I agree.

E: Boy, think about how many people lose their cell phone service at some point during the day. That's practically everybody. Are you really saying that people going into shutdown mode because they can't get a cell phone signal?

M: I kinda get that when I go to my parent's camp. Once we hit that point, there's just no more signal to my cell phone, I feel kinda disconnected from the rest of the world like I need to get reconnected like something's missing. It's just a weird feeling, I guess. I don't think it's a phobia, though.

S: Yeah, it doesn't provoke a panic--

M: Right, exactly.

R: Right, there is an interesting story there, in that we've become so used to being connected to the rest of the world all that time, that being without that is certainly jarring. But of course, as usual, the media has to go above and beyond and exaggerate it to the point of phobia and give it a cutesy name, which is just not all right.

B: Yeah, I agree. I think that number is way up, but I don't doubt that there are a lot of people that go to that extreme. How many? I don't know, but I think it's a valid phobia.

E: Well, do people have previous dispositions for phobias?

S: Sure, but Bob also just clarified further, it can't be part of another disorder. So, if you're an obsessive compulsive personality type, then it's subsumed under that--

B: Ok.

S: You don't have an additional phobia. So if you're just talking about people that are A-type personalities who may even be a little obsessive compulsive and they do get actually anxious by being out of contact, that doesn't qualify as having a separate psychiatric phobia disorder. I just think there's harm in throwing that term around because it diminished genuine psychiatric disorders. It waters down the use of such terminology to the point where it becomes meaningless.

R: You know, when you get right of your nomophobia, you have nomonomophobia.

(laughter)

S: Nomonomophobia?

(laughter)

R: Thank you, I'll be here all week.

(laughter)

M: (Mimics drum [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_%28musical_phrase%29 sting])

R: Try the salad bar.

B: You want to hear some real phobias, I've got some good phobias here that I found. There's the ever-popular, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coitophobia coitophobia], fear of sexual intercourse--

E: Rare.

B: I know many people who have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergophobia ergophobia], which is fear of work.

E: Oh yeah.

B: And then there's one I just cannot relate to, hedonophobia, fear of pleasure. And there, of course, there's the panphobia--

S: But you can relate to coitophobia, that's what you're saying?

(laughter)

B: And of course there's, then there's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panphobia panphobia], a non-specific fear of everything.

S: Of everything.

(laughter)

R: That just sucks.

S: We'll just chalk this one up to just one more silly media escapade.

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