[[File:Mike Lacelle Left.jpg|right]]

Mike Lacelle, often referred to as the 7th Rogue, worked largely behind the scenes on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, but appeared on the shows many times over the years. Just after midnight on the 6th November 2012, he passed away. He was remembered on [[SGU_Episode_382#In_Memorium_-_Mike_LaCelle_.281:04:33.29|SGU Episode 382]] and here at SGUTranscripts we would like to remember him in our own way, by prioritising the transcription of episodes in which he appeared. This page coordinates this effort; below is a list of episodes he appeared in, please add any others that you notice here.

== SGU Episodes ==
* [[SGU Episode 337]] – 2011 in review, Dec 31 2011
* [[SGU Episode 285]] – 2010 in review, Dec 29 2010 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU Episode 257]] – Logical fallacy: Personality Tests, Jun 14 2010 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU Episode 232]] – 2009 in review, Jan 1 2010 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU Episode 152]] – Logical fallacy: Poisoning the Well, Jun 11 2008 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU_Episode_146#SGU_3-Year_Anniversary_.281:25.29|SGU Episode 146]] – Clip collection for 3 year anniversary, May 8 2008
* [[SGU Episode 127]] – 2007 in review, Dec 26 2007
* [[SGU Episode 110]] – Perry DeAngelis Remembered, Aug 28 2007

== 5x5 Episodes ==
* [[5X5 Episode 81]] – Naturopathy, Nov 18 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 80]] – Polygraphs, Oct 28 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 72]] – Randi Million Dollar Psychic Challenge and Connie Sonne, Jul 16 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 68]] – Near Death Experiences, May 22 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 65]] – Skepticism 101 - Scientific Theory, Apr 16 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 39]] – Skepticism 101 - The Ideomotor Effect, Oct 1 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 38]] – Skepticism 101 - Pareidolia, Sep 24 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 34]] – Woman claims wires grow out of her body, Aug 27 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 32]] – Skepticism 101 - Occam's Razor, Aug 11 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 31]] – Digital Homeopathy 20 years after Benveniste, Aug 4 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 30]] – Evaluation of a UCONN study of therapeutic touch on bone cells in culture, Jul 29 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 27]] – Cracking the Dogu Code - Ancient Astronauts, Jul 6 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 23]] – Lame car design analogy to intelligent design from the Discovery Institute, Jun 8 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 22]] – Researchers allow monkey to control robotic arm with its mind, Jun 1 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 21]] – Family claims women miraculously brought back to life after rigor mortis, May 25 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 20]] – SPAM Chainletter e-mails do not spread as virally as thought, May 18 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 15]] – Examining a fossilized snake - with legs, Apr 13 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 14]] – Nomophobia - the fear of being out of cell phone range, Apr 6 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 13]] – Man convicted of molestation claims he was raped by Bigfoot, Mar 30 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 9]]   – An Emmy award winning actress and her 911 conspiracy theory, Mar 2 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 8]]   – Cryptozoology - Hunting for the Thunderbird, Feb 25 2008

Mike Lacelle - In memoriam

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[[File:Mike Lacelle Left.jpg|right]]

Mike Lacelle, often referred to as the 7th Rogue, worked largely behind the scenes on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, but appeared on the shows many times over the years. Just after midnight on the 6th November 2012, he passed away. He was remembered on [[SGU_Episode_382#In_Memorium_-_Mike_LaCelle_.281:04:33.29|SGU Episode 382]] and here at SGUTranscripts we would like to remember him in our own way, by prioritising the transcription of episodes in which he appeared. This page coordinates this effort; below is a list of episodes he appeared in, please add any others that you notice here.

== SGU Episodes ==
* [[SGU Episode 337]] – 2011 in review, Dec 31 2011
* [[SGU Episode 285]] – 2010 in review, Dec 29 2010 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU Episode 257]] – Logical fallacy: Personality Tests, Jun 14 2010 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU Episode 232]] – 2009 in review, Jan 1 2010 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU Episode 152]] – Logical fallacy: Poisoning the Well, Jun 11 2008 ''(page in progress)''
* [[SGU_Episode_146#SGU_3-Year_Anniversary_.281:25.29|SGU Episode 146]] – Clip collection for 3 year anniversary, May 8 2008
* [[SGU Episode 127]] – 2007 in review, Dec 26 2007
* [[SGU Episode 110]] – Perry DeAngelis Remembered, Aug 28 2007

== 5x5 Episodes ==
* [[5X5 Episode 81]] – Naturopathy, Nov 18 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 80]] – Polygraphs, Oct 28 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 72]] – Randi Million Dollar Psychic Challenge and Connie Sonne, Jul 16 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 68]] – Near Death Experiences, May 22 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 65]] – Skepticism 101 - Scientific Theory, Apr 16 2009
* [[5X5 Episode 39]] – Skepticism 101 - The Ideomotor Effect, Oct 1 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 38]] – Skepticism 101 - Pareidolia, Sep 24 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 34]] – Woman claims wires grow out of her body
* [[5X5 Episode 32]] – Skepticism 101 - Occam's Razor, Aug 11 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 31]] – Digital Homeopathy 20 years after Benveniste, Aug 4 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 30]] – Evaluation of a UCONN study of therapeutic touch on bone cells in culture, Jul 29 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 27]] – Cracking the Dogu Code - Ancient Astronauts, Jul 6 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 23]] – Lame car design analogy to intelligent design from the Discovery Institute, Jun 8 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 22]] – Researchers allow monkey to control robotic arm with its mind, Jun 1 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 21]] – Family claims women miraculously brought back to life after rigor mortis, May 25 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 20]] – SPAM Chainletter e-mails do not spread as virally as thought, May 18 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 15]] – Examining a fossilized snake - with legs, Apr 13 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 14]] – Nomophobia - the fear of being out of cell phone range, Apr 6 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 13]] – Man convicted of molestation claims he was raped by Bigfoot, Mar 30 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 9]]   – An Emmy award winning actress and her 911 conspiracy theory, Mar 2 2008
* [[5X5 Episode 8]]   – Cryptozoology - Hunting for the Thunderbird, Feb 25 2008

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== Bermuda Triangle == 
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S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's triangle. This is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, although it is reported to be of various sizes around that region, and legend has it that the area of the Bermuda Triangle is an area of unusual paranormal activity in which there is a large number, an unusual number of disappearances, missing ships and planes, and other unusual events.


E: And one of the first stories that was connected to that area of the Atlantic ocean, one of the most famous ships lost, was the USS Cyclops, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyclops_%28AC-4%29, in 1918, the vessel was on it's way from Salvador [Bahia, Brazil] to Baltimore Maryland [USA] but it didn't arrive and it made an unscheduled stop in Barbados. No wreckage from the ship was ever found, no distress was ever received. Later on in September of 1950 there was an associated press article that listed a bunch of other occurrences in the 1940's that had occurred in the same region, several planes and some other ships that were also said to have disappeared in that time, but it wasn't until February of 1964 in an issue of Argosy Magazine, in which an article called 'the Deadly Bermuda Triangle' argued that the famous Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region.


?:That's right, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19 Flight 19] was a routine training mission launched on December 5th 1945 for five Avenger torpedo bombers. Flight 19 disappeared and was never heard of from again. Radio messages picked up from Flight 19 indicated that the planes' compasses malfunctioned and that they had to attempt a water landing in rough seas because they ran out of fuel. The connection to the supernatural was first proposed by Allan Ekert in a 1962 article he wrote in American Legion Magazine about Flight 19. But like Evan said it wasn't until 1964 that the term Bermuda Triangle was coined by Gaddis in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argosy_%28magazine%29 Argosy Magazine].


J:So a lot of the reasons that people come up with, these disappearances, explosions and everything were from supernatural sources, like one of the funniest ones, I think, like it's left over technology from the continent of Atlantis. So also related to Bimini Road which was proposed by Edgar Cayce who stated that the natural rock formation that you can see from the sky looks like a large landing strip, kind of, and he surmised that aliens were using that, that there were like portals to other planets, aliens were coming and going, and that there was alien abductions, so like some people were believing that people were literally taken out of the air-planes, or boats, mid-flight or mid-transport. Also other explanations are anomalous and unexplained forces like magnetic abnormalities which are blamed for compass malfunctions as an example.


B?: Bob, like so much of the paranormal, the closer you look at the facts of the Bermuda Triangle, the less mysterious it becomes. Even confirmed wrecks and disappearances are not unusual when you consider the size of the Bermuda Triangle and the huge amount of air and ship traffic that it seas. The two primary problems with the Bermuda triangle, as I see it. 1) Many of the planes and ships that for decades have been said to have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, actually disappeared nowhere near, some of them not even in the same ocean. and 2) there is simply no good scientific evidence that any of the claimed disappearances involve anything paranormal, extra-dimensional, extra-terrestrial, or even Atlantian. So what you are left with is just what you would expect. Over the years a tiny percentage of vessels sink, crash or disappear, just like they do the world over. Most accidents happen during weather or human error. There is always going to be a residue though of events and accidents that have no obvious explanation, that does not mean that the supernatural or widely improbable theories need to be invoked.

S:That's right, you have to remember that these things are happening over the open ocean and the ocean has a way of swallowing up all the evidence, ships and planes that go down rapidly sink and they are never heard from again because they are at the bottom of the ocean. The evidence disappears and ... Bob was absolutely right, that when you look at the amount of ship traffic through this part of the ocean, the number of disappearances is about what you would expect for the amount of traffic, and in fact it is also an area of the sea where there is a lot of drug trade, which can account for a lot of piracy. Drug traffickers will steal a yacht, use it for one or two trips and then scuttle it and go on to the next one. So there is plenty of mundane explanations for the reported disappearances and the Bermuda Triangle is an explanation in search of a mystery, but there really isn't a mystery to be had.



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