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<p>MrDuck: Minor spelling change</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 88<br /> |Contents = PSI - Part 2<br /> |episodeDate = 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; May 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-05-19.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,28266<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI - Part 2 ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and this is our second instalment on psi or parapsychology research and today we are going to talk about the putative mechanisms for how psi, like ESP, could possibly work and how plausible those mechanisms are.<br /> <br /> R: Well, you know, first of all it has to be said that in order for it to be plausible you have to, first of all, have peer reviewed studies showing that an experiment involving psi is reproducible. And also, you need to have a decent number of them in order to combat the huge amount of evidence that we have that shows that psi doesn't exist. Because you're basically talking about overturning laws of physics and what-not. So, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.<br /> <br /> B: That is true. The other side of that coin though is that the experiments might not be there to show that psi exists but also from a pure plausibility in physics its really not there as well. For example, if psi depended on a fundamental force of nature then there must be a new fundamental force that has eluded scientists until now since none of the known forces right now can account for psi. Certain psi claims require that information be transmitted through time without violating causality - that's not an easy thing to do. And again no evidence that this is actually happening. The signal itself if psi consists of some sort of carrier signal that itself would have to behave like other information carriers in nature like electromagnetism for example that attenuates over distance through the inverse square law - that doesn't seem to apply to psi. You would also need unknown structures that would need to exist in the brain or elsewhere that can produce these signals. If the psi signals are coming from the human brain, it has got to come from somewhere in there. You would also need biological structures to actually receive and interpret these signals and yet again no such structures have been found. I think its clear that these structures would be kinda obvious. Structures that do something that we don't know what they do - that are just hanging out there - would jump out pretty easily to doctors. If these structures could receive these signals then artificial devices should be able to be constructed that could detect these signals as well. Again, nothing has ever detected any kind of signal like this. Some people resort to exotic physics like quantum mechanics to explain psi effects and quantum mechanisms is very appealing because it's so counter-intuitive like entangled particles communicating over light years instantly. This is often used to explain psi but this won't work because entanglement information by definition would have to be random you cannot communicate any sort of information this way. Finally, even if exotic energies that are unfathomable to us are responsible for psi they would still have to induce some sort of neuro-chemical change in the human brain for us to notice these signals and thus this should be noticeable by other means, other mechanical means that we could create. So a few postulate some undetectable carrier for psi - information then would sail right through the brain unnoticed.<br /> <br /> So if we took ESP as an example. How would the process of ESP actually work? We have to ask the question 'is it physically possible that a biological process could occur were say for example a radio wave could be generated by some type of biology lets say its a human brain and then also be received by another human brain?' and then ESP could physically exist and we could actually explain it in the physical world that we know today. So, we are not breaking any rules of physics or anything like that - so there is no reason why we wouldn't think it's possible. But if we to switch topics to say speaking to dead people - that implies a great deal more - that implies that there is a life after death and the dead can somehow communicate with the living through means that we can't explain with any way that we know in the physical world.<br /> <br /> S: So just to follow up a bit also on what Jay and Bob were saying about the ability of the brain to generate electromagnetic waves. The brain actually does create electromagnet and we can detect them with either an EEG (Electroencephalography) or an MEG (Magnetoencephalography). However, these signals require large populations of brain cells to all be firing in synchrony and they are attenuated, they are decreased, significantly by the skull and we can only pick them up with very sensitive detectors either on the surface of the scalp or very near it. They would not really be able to get very far - let alone penetrate the skull of another person and induce any kind of electromagnetic wave in the brain of another person. So, transmitting a signal or reading someone else's mind really has no plausibility for electromagnetic waves and of course as we have been looking at EEGs and MEGs for decades we would have detected any signals of that type of energy. Gravity doesn't really make any sense. Nuclear forces don't make any sense. <br /> <br /> So, what do we have in the end here. If psi does not meet any of the criteria of plausibility then should psi be researched? Its a fair question to ask. In the past governments have put a lot of money into this sort of research. In the 1970s there was a research programme on remote viewing by the US government and over the course of the life of this particular programme there were $20million of federal funds that were sunk into this and the end result after the final analysis in the 1980s is that there was nothing to be had - there was no psi activity - none that they could come up with. And of course universities also put resources and money behind the study of psi and we have yet to see any results. There has really been about 100 years of data that we have collected concerning psi and we have yet to come up with anything. So, should we fund it? Should governments fund it? No - I don't think its a good use of funds. Should private universities and programmes and grants be funding it - well that's up to them - if they want to allocate private money for those purposes I suppose you could make an argument that they have the right to do that - but at what point are you wasting researchers' time, other people's time and effort to continue to chase something that apparently just does not exist.<br /> <br /> S: So there isn't really any known force of nature that could account for it. And as Bob said we would have to invent an entirely new, unknown force of nature that is not predicted by the standard model of physics and that has evaded all attempts at detection. So, you could never prove a negative, you can never prove that something does not exist or is impossible we could say that it is extremely unluckily that we are missing something that big in how the universe is put together at this point in time and unless and until someone can come up with very convincing evidence that there is actually something happening it doesn't seem likely or worth further exploration to figure out how ESP or psi phenomenon could work. There just really are no leads at this time.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=Template:5X5_episode_list&diff=8525 2013-11-14T17:53:04Z

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_88&diff=8524 2013-11-14T17:52:20Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode as ready for proof-reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 88<br /> |Contents = PSI - Part 2<br /> |episodeDate = 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; May 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-05-19.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,28266<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI - Part 2 ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and this is our second instalment on psi or parapsychology research and today we are going to talk about the punitive mechanisms for how psi, like ESP, could possibly work and how plausible those mechanisms are.<br /> <br /> R: Well, you know, first of all it has to be said that in order for it to be plausible you have to, first of all, have peer reviewed studies showing that an experiment involving psi is reproducible. And also, you need to have a decent number of them in order to combat the huge amount of evidence that we have that shows that psi doesn't exist. Because you're basically talking about overturning laws of physics and what-not. So, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.<br /> <br /> B: That is true. The other side of that coin though is that the experiments might not be there to show that psi exists but also from a pure plausibility in physics its really not there as well. For example, if psi depended on a fundamental force of nature then there must be a new fundamental force that has eluded scientists until now since none of the known forces right now can account for psi. Certain psi claims require that information be transmitted through time without violating causality - that's not an easy thing to do. And again no evidence that this is actually happening. The signal itself if psi consists of some sort of carrier signal that itself would have to behave like other information carriers in nature like electromagnetism for example that attenuates over distance through the inverse square law - that doesn't seem to apply to psi. You would also need unknown structures that would need to exist in the brain or elsewhere that can produce these signals. If the psi signals are coming from the human brain, it has got to come from somewhere in there. You would also need biological structures to actually receive and interpret these signals and yet again no such structures have been found. I think its clear that these structures would be kinda obvious. Structures that do something that we don't know what they do - that are just hanging out there - would jump out pretty easily to doctors. If these structures could receive these signals then artificial devices should be able to be constructed that could detect these signals as well. Again, nothing has ever detected any kind of signal like this. Some people resort to exotic physics like quantum mechanics to explain psi effects and quantum mechanisms is very appealing because it's so counter-intuitive like entangled particles communicating over light years instantly. This is often used to explain psi but this won't work because entanglement information by definition would have to be random you cannot communicate any sort of information this way. Finally, even if exotic energies that are unfathomable to us are responsible for psi they would still have to induce some sort of neuro-chemical change in the human brain for us to notice these signals and thus this should be noticeable by other means, other mechanical means that we could create. So a few postulate some undetectable carrier for psi - information then would sail right through the brain unnoticed.<br /> <br /> So if we took ESP as an example. How would the process of ESP actually work? We have to ask the question 'is it physically possible that a biological process could occur were say for example a radio wave could be generated by some type of biology lets say its a human brain and then also be received by another human brain?' and then ESP could physically exist and we could actually explain it in the physical world that we know today. So, we are not breaking any rules of physics or anything like that - so there is no reason why we wouldn't think it's possible. But if we to switch topics to say speaking to dead people - that implies a great deal more - that implies that there is a life after death and the dead can somehow communicate with the living through means that we can't explain with any way that we know in the physical world.<br /> <br /> S: So just to follow up a bit also on what Jay and Bob were saying about the ability of the brain to generate electromagnetic waves. The brain actually does create electromagnet and we can detect them with either an EEG (Electroencephalography) or an MEG (Magnetoencephalography). However, these signals require large populations of brain cells to all be firing in synchrony and they are attenuated, they are decreased, significantly by the skull and we can only pick them up with very sensitive detectors either on the surface of the scalp or very near it. They would not really be able to get very far - let alone penetrate the skull of another person and induce any kind of electromagnetic wave in the brain of another person. So, transmitting a signal or reading someone else's mind really has no plausibility for electromagnetic waves and of course as we have been looking at EEGs and MEGs for decades we would have detected any signals of that type of energy. Gravity doesn't really make any sense. Nuclear forces don't make any sense. <br /> <br /> So, what do we have in the end here. If psi does not meet any of the criteria of plausibility then should psi be researched? Its a fair question to ask. In the past governments have put a lot of money into this sort of research. In the 1970s there was a research programme on remote viewing by the US government and over the course of the life of this particular programme there were $20million of federal funds that were sunk into this and the end result after the final analysis in the 1980s is that there was nothing to be had - there was no psi activity - none that they could come up with. And of course universities also put resources and money behind the study of psi and we have yet to see any results. There has really been about 100 years of data that we have collected concerning psi and we have yet to come up with anything. So, should we fund it? Should governments fund it? No - I don't think its a good use of funds. Should private universities and programmes and grants be funding it - well that's up to them - if they want to allocate private money for those purposes I suppose you could make an argument that they have the right to do that - but at what point are you wasting researchers' time, other people's time and effort to continue to chase something that apparently just does not exist.<br /> <br /> S: So there isn't really any known force of nature that could account for it. And as Bob said we would have to invent an entirely new, unknown force of nature that is not predicted by the standard model of physics and that has evaded all attempts at detection. So, you could never prove a negative, you can never prove that something does not exist or is impossible we could say that it is extremely unluckily that we are missing something that big in how the universe is put together at this point in time and unless and until someone can come up with very convincing evidence that there is actually something happening it doesn't seem likely or worth further exploration to figure out how ESP or psi phenomenon could work. There just really are no leads at this time.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_88&diff=8523 2013-11-14T17:51:54Z

<p>MrDuck: Adding transcription</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 88<br /> |Contents = PSI - Part 2<br /> |episodeDate = 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; May 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-05-19.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,28266<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI - Part 2 ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and this is our second instalment on psi or parapsychology research and today we are going to talk about the punitive mechanisms for how psi, like ESP, could possibly work and how plausible those mechanisms are.<br /> <br /> R: Well, you know, first of all it has to be said that in order for it to be plausible you have to, first of all, have peer reviewed studies showing that an experiment involving psi is reproducible. And also, you need to have a decent number of them in order to combat the huge amount of evidence that we have that shows that psi doesn't exist. Because you're basically talking about overturning laws of physics and what-not. So, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.<br /> <br /> B: That is true. The other side of that coin though is that the experiments might not be there to show that psi exists but also from a pure plausibility in physics its really not there as well. For example, if psi depended on a fundamental force of nature then there must be a new fundamental force that has eluded scientists until now since none of the known forces right now can account for psi. Certain psi claims require that information be transmitted through time without violating causality - that's not an easy thing to do. And again no evidence that this is actually happening. The signal itself if psi consists of some sort of carrier signal that itself would have to behave like other information carriers in nature like electromagnetism for example that attenuates over distance through the inverse square law - that doesn't seem to apply to psi. You would also need unknown structures that would need to exist in the brain or elsewhere that can produce these signals. If the psi signals are coming from the human brain, it has got to come from somewhere in there. You would also need biological structures to actually receive and interpret these signals and yet again no such structures have been found. I think its clear that these structures would be kinda obvious. Structures that do something that we don't know what they do - that are just hanging out there - would jump out pretty easily to doctors. If these structures could receive these signals then artificial devices should be able to be constructed that could detect these signals as well. Again, nothing has ever detected any kind of signal like this. Some people resort to exotic physics like quantum mechanics to explain psi effects and quantum mechanisms is very appealing because it's so counter-intuitive like entangled particles communicating over light years instantly. This is often used to explain psi but this won't work because entanglement information by definition would have to be random you cannot communicate any sort of information this way. Finally, even if exotic energies that are unfathomable to us are responsible for psi they would still have to induce some sort of neuro-chemical change in the human brain for us to notice these signals and thus this should be noticeable by other means, other mechanical means that we could create. So a few postulate some undetectable carrier for psi - information then would sail right through the brain unnoticed.<br /> <br /> So if we took ESP as an example. How would the process of ESP actually work? We have to ask the question 'is it physically possible that a biological process could occur were say for example a radio wave could be generated by some type of biology lets say its a human brain and then also be received by another human brain?' and then ESP could physically exist and we could actually explain it in the physical world that we know today. So, we are not breaking any rules of physics or anything like that - so there is no reason why we wouldn't think it's possible. But if we to switch topics to say speaking to dead people - that implies a great deal more - that implies that there is a life after death and the dead can somehow communicate with the living through means that we can't explain with any way that we know in the physical world.<br /> <br /> S: So just to follow up a bit also on what Jay and Bob were saying about the ability of the brain to generate electromagnetic waves. The brain actually does create electromagnet and we can detect them with either an EEG (Electroencephalography) or an MEG (Magnetoencephalography). However, these signals require large populations of brain cells to all be firing in synchrony and they are attenuated, they are decreased, significantly by the skull and we can only pick them up with very sensitive detectors either on the surface of the scalp or very near it. They would not really be able to get very far - let alone penetrate the skull of another person and induce any kind of electromagnetic wave in the brain of another person. So, transmitting a signal or reading someone else's mind really has no plausibility for electromagnetic waves and of course as we have been looking at EEGs and MEGs for decades we would have detected any signals of that type of energy. Gravity doesn't really make any sense. Nuclear forces don't make any sense. <br /> <br /> So, what do we have in the end here. If psi does not meet any of the criteria of plausibility then should psi be researched? Its a fair question to ask. In the past governments have put a lot of money into this sort of research. In the 1970s there was a research programme on remote viewing by the US government and over the course of the life of this particular programme there were $20million of federal funds that were sunk into this and the end result after the final analysis in the 1980s is that there was nothing to be had - there was no psi activity - none that they could come up with. And of course universities also put resources and money behind the study of psi and we have yet to see any results. There has really been about 100 years of data that we have collected concerning psi and we have yet to come up with anything. So, should we fund it? Should governments fund it? No - I don't think its a good use of funds. Should private universities and programmes and grants be funding it - well that's up to them - if they want to allocate private money for those purposes I suppose you could make an argument that they have the right to do that - but at what point are you wasting researchers' time, other people's time and effort to continue to chase something that apparently just does not exist.<br /> <br /> S: So there isn't really any known force of nature that could account for it. And as Bob said we would have to invent an entirely new, unknown force of nature that is not predicted by the standard model of physics and that has evaded all attempts at detection. So, you could never prove a negative, you can never prove that something does not exist or is impossible we could say that it is extremely unluckily that we are missing something that big in how the universe is put together at this point in time and unless and until someone can come up with very convincing evidence that there is actually something happening it doesn't seem likely or worth further exploration to figure out how ESP or psi phenomenon could work. There just really are no leads at this time.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

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<p>MrDuck: Adding categories</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;noinclude&gt;This template is used to display the list of 5X5 episodes on the [[Main Page]] and the [[5X5 Episodes]] page. Additions and amendments to this template will be reflected on those pages.<br /> <br /> For help on how to add a new row, see [[Template:5X5 list entry]].<br /> &lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- <br /> <br /> To add an entry, add the following template in the appropriate place in the list:<br /> <br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = incomplete<br /> |episode = 113<br /> |date = May 9 2012<br /> |contents = Episode title from archive contents<br /> |category1 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> <br /> To see a list of possible topic categories, go to Category:Topic.<br /> Categories should be listed in order of relevance, with the most relevant first for sorting. <br /> Up to 3 categories can be added <br /> <br /> Once an episode is complete, remove the &quot;incomplete&quot; from the &quot;status&quot; input, and the icon will be removed<br /> Once an episode is proof-read, add &quot;verified&quot; to the &quot;status&quot; input to add the tick<br /> <br /> --&gt;<br /> {|class=&quot;wikitable sortable&quot; style=&quot;margin: 1em 3em;&quot;<br /> !No.!!class=&quot;unsortable&quot;|Date!!Status!!Contents!!Categories<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 113<br /> |date = May 9 2012<br /> |contents = What's the Harm?<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> |category3 = Religion &amp; Faith<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 112<br /> |date = May 2 2012<br /> |contents = Anecdotal Evidence<br /> |category1 = Legal Issues &amp; Regulations<br /> |category2 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category3 = Neuroscience &amp; Psychology<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 111<br /> |date = Apr 25 2012<br /> |contents = Facilitated Communication<br /> |category1 = Pseudoscience<br /> |category2 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 110<br /> |date = Apr 11 2012<br /> |contents = Naturalistic Fallacy<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 109<br /> |date = Apr 4 2012<br /> |contents = Celebrity Pseudoscience <br /> |category1 = Pseudoscience<br /> |category2 = Entertainment<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 108<br /> |date = Mar 28 2012<br /> |contents = Cancer Cure<br /> |category1 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> |category2 = Conspiracy Theories<br /> |category3 = Pseudoscience<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 107<br /> |date = Mar 21 2012<br /> |contents = Chilean UFO<br /> |category1 = UFOs &amp; Aliens<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 106<br /> |date = Mar 19 2012<br /> |contents = Availability Heuristic <br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 105<br /> |date = Mar 7 2012<br /> |contents = Representativeness Heuristic <br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 104<br /> |date = Feb 22 2012<br /> |contents = WiFi<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 103 <br /> |date = Feb 15 2012 <br /> |contents = Creationism <br /> |category1 = Creationism &amp; ID<br /> |category2 = Science &amp; Education<br /> |category3 = Legal Issues &amp; Regulations<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 102<br /> |date = Feb 8 2012<br /> |contents = Biofuels<br /> |category1 = Technology<br /> |category2 = General Science<br /> |category3 = <br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 101<br /> |date = Jan 26 2011<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Slippery Slope/Post Hoc<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 100<br /> |date = Jan 13 2011<br /> |contents = Testable<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 99<br /> |date = Jan 5 2011<br /> |contents = Graphology<br /> |category1 = History<br /> |category2 = Pseudoscience<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 98<br /> |date = Dec 30 2010<br /> |contents = Harry Houdini<br /> |category1 = History<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> |category3 = Ghosts &amp; Demons<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 97<br /> |date = Dec 20 2010<br /> |contents = Repressed Memories<br /> |category1 = Neuroscience &amp; Psychology<br /> |category2 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 96<br /> |date = Nov 9 2010<br /> |contents = Magnets<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> |category2 = Pseudoscience<br /> |category3 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 95<br /> |date = Sep 21 2010<br /> |contents = Chelation<br /> |category1 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> |category2 = Alternative Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 94<br /> |date = Sep 12 2010<br /> |contents = Nostradamus<br /> |category1 = Prophecy<br /> |category2 = History<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 93<br /> |date = Aug 13 2010<br /> |contents = Chiropractic - Part 3<br /> |category1 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category2 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 92<br /> |date = Jul 28 2010<br /> |contents = Chiropractic - Part 2<br /> |category1 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category2 = History<br /> |category3 = Legal Issues &amp; Regulations<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 91<br /> |date = Jul 13 2010<br /> |contents = Chiropractic - Part 1<br /> |category1 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category2 = History<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 90<br /> |date = Jun 29 2010<br /> |contents = The Unification Church<br /> |category1 = Religion &amp; Faith<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete<br /> |episode = 89<br /> |date = Jun 14 2010<br /> |contents = Chemtrails<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = open <br /> |episode = 88<br /> |date = May 19 2010<br /> |contents = PSI - Part 2<br /> |category1 = ESP<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete<br /> |episode = 87<br /> |date = Mar 31 2010<br /> |contents = PSI - The Ganzfeld Experiments<br /> |category1 = ESP<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete<br /> |episode = 86<br /> |date = Feb 21 2010<br /> |contents = Psi<br /> |category1 = ESP<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 85<br /> |date = Feb 9 2010<br /> |contents = Prediction<br /> |category1 = Prophecy<br /> |category2 = Pseudoscience<br /> |category3 = Paranormal<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry <br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 84<br /> |date = Jan 25 2010<br /> |contents = Bermuda Triangle<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category3 = UFOs &amp; Aliens<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 83<br /> |date = Dec 20 2009<br /> |contents = Irreducible Complexity<br /> |category1 = Creationism &amp; ID<br /> |category2 = Nature &amp; Evolution<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete <br /> |episode = 82<br /> |date = Dec 2 2009<br /> |contents = Psychic Surgery<br /> |category1 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category2 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 81<br /> |date = Nov 18 2009<br /> |contents = Naturopathy<br /> |category1 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category2 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 80<br /> |date = Oct 28 2009<br /> |contents = Polygraphs<br /> |category1 = Technology<br /> |category2 = Legal Issues &amp; Regulations<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete <br /> |episode = 79<br /> |date = Oct 14 2009<br /> |contents = The Lunar Effect<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 78<br /> |date = Sep 23 2009<br /> |contents = Crop Circles<br /> |category1 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 77<br /> |date = Sep 9 2009<br /> |contents = The Double-Blind Protocol in Science<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> |category2 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete<br /> |episode = 76<br /> |date = Aug 18 2009<br /> |contents = The Argument from Design<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 75 <br /> |date = Aug 12 2009<br /> |contents = The Coriolis Effect<br /> |category1 = Physics &amp; Mechanics <br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete <br /> |episode = 74<br /> |date = Aug 4 2009<br /> |contents = Perpetual Motion Machines<br /> |category1 = Pseudoscience<br /> |category2 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete <br /> |episode = 73<br /> |date = Jul 22 2009<br /> |contents = The Age of the Earth<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 72<br /> |date = Jul 16 2009<br /> |contents = Randi Million Dollar Psychic Challenge and Connie Sonne<br /> |category1 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> |category2 = ESP<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete<br /> |episode = 71<br /> |date = Jul 8 2009<br /> |contents = The Roswell UFO Mythology<br /> |category1 = UFOs &amp; Aliens<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete <br /> |episode = 70<br /> |date = Jun 30 2009<br /> |contents = New Element Discovered<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 69<br /> |date = Jun 5 2009<br /> |contents = Einstein's Eclipse and General Relativity<br /> |category1 = Physics &amp; Mechanics<br /> |category2 = Astronomy &amp; Space Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 68<br /> |date = May 22 2009<br /> |contents = Near-Death Experiences<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 67<br /> |date = Apr 30 2009<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Special Pleading<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 66<br /> |date = Apr 22 2009<br /> |contents = Plausibility in Science<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 65<br /> |date = Apr 16 2009<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Scientific Theory<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete <br /> |episode = 64<br /> |date = Apr 2 2009<br /> |contents = The Clever Hans Effect<br /> |category1 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete<br /> |episode = 63<br /> |date = Mar 25 2009<br /> |contents = Possession and Exorcism<br /> |category1 = Ghosts &amp; Demons<br /> |category2 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category3 = Religion &amp; Faith<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 62<br /> |date = Mar 19 2009<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - How to Argue<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 61<br /> |date = Mar 13 2009<br /> |contents = Friday 13th Superstition<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 60<br /> |date = Mar 5 2009<br /> |contents = Cryptozoology<br /> |category1 = Cryptozoology<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = complete<br /> |episode = 59<br /> |date = Feb 25 2009<br /> |contents = Sprites and other atmospheric phenomena mistaken for UFOs<br /> |category1 = UFOs &amp; Aliens<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 58<br /> |date = Feb 17 2009<br /> |contents = The Self-Corrective Nature of Science<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 57<br /> |date = Feb 10 2009<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Moving the Goalpost<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy <br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 56<br /> |date = Feb 4 2009<br /> |contents = Probability<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> |category2 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 55<br /> |date = Jan 28 2009<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Poisoning the Well<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 54<br /> |date = Jan 21 2009<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - False Dichotomy<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |episode = 53<br /> |status = verified<br /> |date = Jan 13 2009<br /> |contents = Anecdotal Evidence <br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> |category3 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 52<br /> |date = Jan 6 2009<br /> |contents = Atlantis <br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 51<br /> |date = Dec 29 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Channeling<br /> |category1 = ESP<br /> |category2 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> |category3 = Ghosts &amp; Demons<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 50<br /> |date = Dec 15 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - The Argument from Ignorance<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 49<br /> |date = Dec 8 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Argument from Authority<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified <br /> |episode = 48<br /> |date = Dec 1 2008<br /> |contents = The 10% Brain Myth<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = Neuroscience &amp; Psychology<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified <br /> |episode = 47<br /> |date = Nov 24 2008<br /> |contents = Remote Viewing<br /> |category1 = ESP<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified <br /> |episode = 46<br /> |date = Nov 18 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Correlation and Causation <br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> |category2 = General Science<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 45<br /> |date = Nov 11 2008<br /> |contents = Chi and other forms of vitalism <br /> |category1 = Energy Healing<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry <br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 44<br /> |date = Nov 4 2008<br /> |contents = Homunculus-based Medical Pseudoscience<br /> |category1 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category2 = Pseudoscience<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified <br /> |episode = 43<br /> |date = Oct 29 2008<br /> |contents = Holocaust Denial<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = History<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |episode = 42<br /> |status = verified<br /> |date = Oct 22 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Confirmation Bias<br /> |category1 = Neuroscience &amp; Psychology<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |episode = 41<br /> |status = verified<br /> |date = Oct 15 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Logical Fallacies: Straw Man Argument<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified <br /> |episode = 40<br /> |date = Oct 8 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 39<br /> |date = Aug 1 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - The Ideomotor Effect<br /> |category1 = Neuroscience &amp; Psychology<br /> |category2 = Paranormal<br /> |category3 = Pseudoscience <br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 38<br /> |date = Sep 24 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Pareidolia<br /> |category1 = Nature &amp; Evolution<br /> |category2 = Neuroscience &amp; Psychology<br /> |category3 = Paranormal<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 37<br /> |date = Sep 17 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - The Scientific Method<br /> |category1 = General Science<br /> |category2 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 36<br /> |date = Sep 10 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Cold Reading<br /> |category1 = Paranormal<br /> |category2 = Neuroscience &amp; Psychology<br /> |category3 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 35<br /> |date = Sep 3 2008<br /> |contents = No sunspots in August - will this lead to a period of solar cooling?<br /> |category1 = Astronomy &amp; Space Science<br /> |category2 = <br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 34<br /> |date = Aug 27 2008<br /> |contents = Woman claims wires grow out of her body<br /> |category1 = Paranormal<br /> |category2 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 33<br /> |date = Aug 20 2008<br /> |contents = The Shroud of Turin - Shroud scientists try to resurrect the controversy <br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions <br /> |category2 = Religion &amp; Faith<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 32<br /> |date = Aug 11 2008<br /> |contents = Skepticism 101 - Occam's Razor<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 31<br /> |date = Aug 4 2008<br /> |contents = Digital Homeopathy 20 years after Benveniste<br /> |category1 = Homeopathy<br /> |category2 = Pseudoscience<br /> |category3 = Cons, Scams &amp; Hoaxes<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 30<br /> |date = Jul 29 2008<br /> |contents = Evaluation of a UCONN study of therapeutic touch on bone cells in culture<br /> |category1 = Alternative Medicine<br /> |category2 = New Age<br /> |category3 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 29<br /> |date = Jul 20 2008<br /> |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<br /> |category1 = Astronomy &amp; Space Science<br /> |category2 = Conspiracy Theories<br /> |category3 = History<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 28<br /> |date = Jul 13 2008<br /> |contents = Exposing the logical fallacy of equating faith healing with medical care<br /> |category1 = Logic &amp; Philosophy<br /> |category2 = Pseudoscience<br /> |category3 = Science &amp; Medicine<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |episode = 27<br /> |status = verified<br /> |date = Jul 6 2008<br /> |contents = Cracking the Dogu Code - Ancient Astronauts<br /> |category1 = Myths &amp; Misconceptions<br /> |category2 = UFOs &amp; Aliens<br /> |category3 = Pseudoscience<br /> }}<br /> |-<br /> {{5X5 list entry<br /> |status = verified<br /> |episode = 26<br /> |date = Jun 29 2008<br /> |contents = New study sheds light on genetic vs environmental contributions to sexuality<br /> |category1 = Science &amp; 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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_87&diff=8520 2013-11-14T10:46:54Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode as ready for proof-reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 87<br /> |Contents = PSI - The Ganzfeld Experiments<br /> |episodeDate = 31&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; March 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-03-31.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,27142<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI - The Ganzfeld Experiments ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are continuing our series on psi research and we are gonna talk specifically about the ganzfeld experiment. The ganzfeld - which is from the German word for entire field - is a specific protocol of research that was developed. It involves primarily sensory deprivation. So, the procedure entails using sensory deprivation on the subject which is hypothesised to make it more likely to be receptive to ESP or to psi and then they are tasked with, for example, guessing which of four possible targets is being projected to them.<br /> <br /> And ganzfeld experiments were invented by the German psychologist, Wolfgang Metzger, in the late 1920s. Metzger utilised these kinds of experiments as part of his investigation into Gestalt theory. In fact the studies of Metzger and the ganzfeld experiments were so widely read that the word ganzfeld was adopted as a generally accepted term. By the mid-1970s, ganzfeld experiments were being utilised by parapsychologists in an attempt to verify the existence of telepathy. Telepathy being the transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other the commonly known 5 senses. And it was widely believed by these parapsychologists that ganzfeld would provide a state of consciousness that might open the door to psi experiences. <br /> <br /> So to go into detail about how the ganzfeld experiment works: In a typical experiment a person called the receiver is put in an isolated room, in a chair with half ping pong balls covering each eye - they also have a red light shone on them. This person also wears a set of headphones to which they would put in white or pink noise - basically static - and that blocks out any outside sounds they might hear. The receiver is supposed to be in a state of mild sensory deprivation, as Steve said, for about half an hour and during that time another person who we call the sender observes a random target (as in an image) and tries to mentally send the target to the receiver. The receiver would then describe out loud what they see in their mind and the result is recorded by another person who is blind to the other two people involved in the experiment. And, then they have something they call the judging procedure. During the judging procedure the receiver is taken out of the ganzfeld state and then given or shown the set of possible targets - for a good example would be that one of them would be a target that was sent and three of them would be fakes. And they have to decide which one of those most resembles the images that they witnessed. So, like I said there are usually three decoys and one of the actual things that were being sent by one of the senders.<br /> <br /> Between 1974 and 1981, 14 ganzfeld experiments were done. Charles Honorton claimed that 55% of the studies produced positive results. A meta-analysis also completed apparently showed that there was a 38% success rate with 25% being chance so it was somewhat significant - apparently. Physchologist Ray Hymen also did a meta-analysis of these experiments and he also showed a 38% hit rate but he also found some statistical anomalies in these early ganzfeld experiments. After examining the protocols and the experiments he claimed that this database did not justify concluding that ESP was demonstrated. Hyman and Honorton actually were on the same page about this, regarding these early experiments. Hyman said that both Honorton and I agree that there were sufficient problems with the original database that nothing could be concluded until further replications conducted according to specified criteria. So, when some of these later experiments were done Hyman noticed that the experimenter interacted with the subject during the judging stage of the experiment and that’s a big no-no. Hyman said that this means that the judgement from trial to trial were not strictly independent and he also discovered other experimental procedures as well. And this kinda goes on over time as more experiments are done. Hyman notices that anomalies and ultimately it comes down to the fact that Honorton was impressed with these results and claimed that the show that psi existing and Hyman was not impressed with the results and claimed that they did not show that psi exists. <br /> Another major criticism comes from Susan Blackmore. In 1979, she visited Carl Sargent’s laboratory in Cambridge where numerous ganzfeld experiments were performed and observed a number of discrepancies in the followed procedure. For example, in section number 9 the following observations were noted by Blackmore 'Sargent did the randomisation when he should not have', 'a B went missing from the drawer during the session instead of afterwards', 'Sargent came into the judging and pushed the subject towards B', 'an error of addition was made in favour of B and B was chosen' and 'B was the target and the session a direct hit'. Susan Blackmore wrote about the irregularities in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research in 1987. This along with other criticisms of Sargent’s work prompted Sargent to write a rebuttal which did not deny that discrepancies took place but that Blackmore's conclusion based on those discrepancies were wrong and prejudiced.<br /> <br /> S: So, essentially, the ganzfeld experiment which are often presented as the best, the most solid evidence for psi failed to produce convincing evidence that psi is a real phenomenon. When sceptical scientists investigated the protocols they found that they were wanting. And as the protocols were tightened the size of the effect decreased until you ended up with a tiny, tiny effect - the kind that could easily be due to some mild statistical error in the procedure. And, when Susan Blackmore as Mike said went physically into a lab to see what was actually happening she noticed that there were a lot of irregularities that were not the kind of thing that you can know from the published report. So reading the report of how the experiment was conducted isn't really sufficient to know if the experiments were tightly controlled or not. So, all the experiments it turns out had some significant problems and the ones that were better had the smaller effect. Whenever you see that pattern - the tighter the controls, the smaller effect until it shrinks to noise level - below the level where you can really say anything meaningful about the experiment. So, we are left after decades and many specific experiments without any evidence from the ganzfeld protocol being convincing that there is any anomaly going on or specifically any psi effect.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

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<p>MrDuck: Transcription added</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 87<br /> |Contents = PSI - The Ganzfeld Experiments<br /> |episodeDate = 31&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; March 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-03-31.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,27142<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI - The Ganzfeld Experiments ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are continuing our series on psi research and we are gonna talk specifically about the ganzfeld experiment. The ganzfeld - which is from the German word for entire field - is a specific protocol of research that was developed. It involves primarily sensory deprivation. So, the procedure entails using sensory deprivation on the subject which is hypothesised to make it more likely to be receptive to ESP or to psi and then they are tasked with, for example, guessing which of four possible targets is being projected to them.<br /> <br /> And ganzfeld experiments were invented by the German psychologist, Wolfgang Metzger, in the late 1920s. Metzger utilised these kinds of experiments as part of his investigation into Gestalt theory. In fact the studies of Metzger and the ganzfeld experiments were so widely read that the word ganzfeld was adopted as a generally accepted term. By the mid-1970s, ganzfeld experiments were being utilised by parapsychologists in an attempt to verify the existence of telepathy. Telepathy being the transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other the commonly known 5 senses. And it was widely believed by these parapsychologists that ganzfeld would provide a state of consciousness that might open the door to psi experiences. <br /> <br /> So to go into detail about how the ganzfeld experiment works: In a typical experiment a person called the receiver is put in an isolated room, in a chair with half ping pong balls covering each eye - they also have a red light shone on them. This person also wears a set of headphones to which they would put in white or pink noise - basically static - and that blocks out any outside sounds they might hear. The receiver is supposed to be in a state of mild sensory deprivation, as Steve said, for about half an hour and during that time another person who we call the sender observes a random target (as in an image) and tries to mentally send the target to the receiver. The receiver would then describe out loud what they see in their mind and the result is recorded by another person who is blind to the other two people involved in the experiment. And, then they have something they call the judging procedure. During the judging procedure the receiver is taken out of the ganzfeld state and then given or shown the set of possible targets - for a good example would be that one of them would be a target that was sent and three of them would be fakes. And they have to decide which one of those most resembles the images that they witnessed. So, like I said there are usually three decoys and one of the actual things that were being sent by one of the senders.<br /> <br /> Between 1974 and 1981, 14 ganzfeld experiments were done. Charles Honorton claimed that 55% of the studies produced positive results. A meta-analysis also completed apparently showed that there was a 38% success rate with 25% being chance so it was somewhat significant - apparently. Physchologist Ray Hymen also did a meta-analysis of these experiments and he also showed a 38% hit rate but he also found some statistical anomalies in these early ganzfeld experiments. After examining the protocols and the experiments he claimed that this database did not justify concluding that ESP was demonstrated. Hyman and Honorton actually were on the same page about this, regarding these early experiments. Hyman said that both Honorton and I agree that there were sufficient problems with the original database that nothing could be concluded until further replications conducted according to specified criteria. So, when some of these later experiments were done Hyman noticed that the experimenter interacted with the subject during the judging stage of the experiment and that’s a big no-no. Hyman said that this means that the judgement from trial to trial were not strictly independent and he also discovered other experimental procedures as well. And this kinda goes on over time as more experiments are done. Hyman notices that anomalies and ultimately it comes down to the fact that Honorton was impressed with these results and claimed that the show that psi existing and Hyman was not impressed with the results and claimed that they did not show that psi exists. <br /> Another major criticism comes from Susan Blackmore. In 1979, she visited Carl Sargent’s laboratory in Cambridge where numerous ganzfeld experiments were performed and observed a number of discrepancies in the followed procedure. For example, in section number 9 the following observations were noted by Blackmore 'Sargent did the randomisation when he should not have', 'a B went missing from the drawer during the session instead of afterwards', 'Sargent came into the judging and pushed the subject towards B', 'an error of addition was made in favour of B and B was chosen' and 'B was the target and the session a direct hit'. Susan Blackmore wrote about the irregularities in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research in 1987. This along with other criticisms of Sargent’s work prompted Sargent to write a rebuttal which did not deny that discrepancies took place but that Blackmore's conclusion based on those discrepancies were wrong and prejudiced.<br /> <br /> S: So, essentially, the ganzfeld experiment which are often presented as the best, the most solid evidence for psi failed to produce convincing evidence that psi is a real phenomenon. When sceptical scientists investigated the protocols they found that they were wanting. And as the protocols were tightened the size of the effect decreased until you ended up with a tiny, tiny effect - the kind that could easily be due to some mild statistical error in the procedure. And, when Susan Blackmore as Mike said went physically into a lab to see what was actually happening she noticed that there were a lot of irregularities that were not the kind of thing that you can know from the published report. So reading the report of how the experiment was conducted isn't really sufficient to know if the experiments were tightly controlled or not. So, all the experiments it turns out had some significant problems and the ones that were better had the smaller effect. Whenever you see that pattern - the tighter the controls, the smaller effect until it shrinks to noise level - below the level where you can really say anything meaningful about the experiment. So, we are left after decades and many specific experiments without any evidence from the ganzfeld protocol being convincing that there is any anomaly going on or specifically any psi effect.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_86&diff=8518 2013-11-13T16:14:28Z

<p>MrDuck: Some links to Wikipedia added</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 86<br /> |Contents = PSI<br /> |episodeDate = 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; February 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-02-21.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,26350<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI ==<br /> <br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about parapsychology or psi.<br /> <br /> It was back in 1927, Professor of psychology {{w|Joseph Banks Rhine}}, attended a lecture at his place of employment, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The lecturer that night was {{w|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}} whose the infamous author of the famed literary character {{w|Sherlock Holmes}}. And the subject of Doyle's lecture that night was on the scientific proof of communication with the dead. So impressed was Dr Rhine with that lecture that he began in earnest the scientific pursuit of what he termed 'abnormal psychology' or parapsychology. Hence, the modern parapsychology movement had officially begun. Through his utilisation of the {{w|Zener cards}} - that's a deck with five different distinct drawings that his subjects were asked to guess the correct card using only the power of their minds. Dr Rhine engaged in 5 years worth of tests in a quest to uncover the scientific evidence of psychic abilities. Culminating in his book published in 1934 titled 'Extrasensory perception' or more commonly referred to as ESP.<br /> <br /> ESP is just one type of psi which is spelt P.S.I. and is an abbreviation of parapsychology. This includes any paranormal mental activity such as reading minds, predicting the future, remote viewing - being able to see a remote location just with your mind, for example. Since Rhine, parapsychology or psi research has continued although in the last 80 years psi research has been unable to produce a single, reproducible laboratory phenomenon demonstrating that psi exists.<br /> <br /> Psi tests using shuffled {{w|Zener cards}} usually consisted of a sender looking at one card at a time whilst another person, the receiver, tried to telepathically receive the image of the card. Another common method involved simply one test subject guessing what the top card on the deck without anyone else looking at it. Since there are 5 different cards, there is a 20% chance of guessing the correct card assuming no feedback was coming from the sender therefore large trials of many hundreds or maybe even thousands of cards resulting in a hit rate significantly higher than chance most often requires an explanation other than chance. Some conclude psi must be the cause. Skeptics generally of course need to have other factors ruled out, like experimental design or perhaps even cheating.<br /> <br /> So, is there cheating involved? Well we do know that an early experiments Rhine used decks of Zener cards that were printed on very thin and translucent paper. This allowed test subjects to see through the card to identify the symbol. There is a lot of criticism towards Rhine's test methods and once he changed his methods to be more rigorous he wasn't able to find any high scoring test subjects to match his early successes. When he used a magician to observe E Pearce Junior one of his highest testing subjects Pearce's performance sunk back to chance levels. When not observed his scores were significantly higher.<br /> <br /> Also, the fact that the Zener card deck only contains 25 cards in which each card is discarded after use makes the chances less random than guessing. For example, in a full deck of Zener the statistical chance of guess one card correctly is 1 in 5. However, once you remove that card the chances become slightly higher because the deck now only contains 24 cards and so on. And the use of the Zener card deck is not truly random - for example there are only five instances in each deck that each symbol is represented. So runs of 6 identical symbols are impossible. In a truly random deck such runs would be possible.<br /> <br /> S: So this represents the classic error, if you will, of psi research and they made a number of what are now classic experimental mistakes. They all essentially amount to ways of cherry picking the data or only picking some subset of the data. One example of that is so called 'psi missing' in which the guesser, the person who is supposed to be psychically guessing what the target cards were, would miss more often than chance. However, if you look at the multiple different ways in which the result could deviate from chance - such as guessing correctly more often than would be predicted by chance or guessing incorrectly more often than would be predicted by chance - you're essentially doubling your chances of a random result deviating from chance and if you don't take that into account with the statistics you can get falsely positive results. Another example was called 'optional starting and stopping' - you may do hundreds and hundreds of trials but decided that there's a warm up period. A random warm up period in which the person being tested may suddenly start to guess correctly more often than chance and then that run will suddenly stop again unpredictably. This was interpreted as, again, a period where the subject was guessing psychically more greater than chance but, again, what that really amounts to a way sifting through large amounts of data picking up random runs with the subject performed better than chance and then cherry picking that subset of the data. Essentially you are not allowed to do that in research. You have to count all data points continuously otherwise it's not a truly random selection. So, therefore, these became classic examples of how to manipulate data in research. Psi researchers are no longer making these basic mistakes but as we will see in future instalments of 5x5, psi researchers become more sophisticated but even still they are still unable to generate consistently positive results.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=Template:5X5_episode_list&diff=8517 2013-11-13T15:58:07Z

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_86&diff=8515 2013-11-13T15:53:47Z

<p>MrDuck: Tidy spacing</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 86<br /> |Contents = PSI<br /> |episodeDate = 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; February 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-02-21.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,26350<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI ==<br /> <br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about parapsychology or psi.<br /> <br /> It was back in 1927, Professor of psychology Joseph Banks Rhine, attended a lecture at his place of employment, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The lecturer that night was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose the infamous author of the famed literary character Sherlock Holmes. And the subject of Doyle's lecture that night was on the scientific proof of communication with the dead. So impressed was Dr Rhine with that lecture that he began in earnest the scientific pursuit of what he termed 'abnormal psychology' or parapsychology. Hence, the modern parapsychology movement had officially begun. Through his utilisation of the Zener cards - that's a deck with five different distinct drawings that his subjects were asked to guess the correct card using only the power of their minds. Dr Rhine engaged in 5 years worth of tests in a quest to uncover the scientific evidence of psychic abilities. Culminating in his book published in 1934 titled 'Extrasensory perception' or more commonly referred to as ESP.<br /> <br /> ESP is just one type of psi which is spelt P.S.I. and is an abbreviation of parapsychology. This includes any paranormal mental activity such as reading minds, predicting the future, remote viewing - being able to see a remote location just with your mind, for example. Since Rhine, parapsychology or psi research has continued although in the last 80 years psi research has been unable to produce a single, reproducible laboratory phenomenon demonstrating that psi exists.<br /> <br /> Psi tests using shuffled Zener cards usually consisted of a sender looking at one card at a time whilst another person, the receiver, tried to telepathically receive the image of the card. Another common method involved simply one test subject guessing what the top card on the deck without anyone else looking at it. Since there are 5 different cards, there is a 20% chance of guessing the correct card assuming no feedback was coming from the sender therefore large trials of many hundreds or maybe even thousands of cards resulting in a hit rate significantly higher than chance most often requires an explanation other than chance. Some conclude psi must be the cause. Skeptics generally of course need to have other factors ruled out, like experimental design or perhaps even cheating.<br /> <br /> So, is there cheating involved? Well we do know that an early experiments Rhine used decks of Zener cards that were printed on very thin and translucent paper. This allowed test subjects to see through the card to identify the symbol. There is a lot of criticism towards Rhine's test methods and once he changed his methods to be more rigorous he wasn't able to find any high scoring test subjects to match his early successes. When he used a magician to observe E Pearce Junior one of his highest testing subjects Pearce's performance sunk back to chance levels. When not observed his scores were significantly higher.<br /> <br /> Also, the fact that the Zener card deck only contains 25 cards in which each card is discarded after use makes the chances less random than guessing. For example, in a full deck of Zener the statistical chance of guess one card correctly is 1 in 5. However, once you remove that card the chances become slightly higher because the deck now only contains 24 cards and so on. And the use of the Zener card deck is not truly random - for example there are only five instances in each deck that each symbol is represented. So runs of 6 identical symbols are impossible. In a truly random deck such runs would be possible.<br /> <br /> S: So this represents the classic error, if you will, of psi research and they made a number of what are now classic experimental mistakes. They all essentially amount to ways of cherry picking the data or only picking some subset of the data. One example of that is so called 'psi missing' in which the guesser, the person who is supposed to be psychically guessing what the target cards were, would miss more often than chance. However, if you look at the multiple different ways in which the result could deviate from chance - such as guessing correctly more often than would be predicted by chance or guessing incorrectly more often than would be predicted by chance - you're essentially doubling your chances of a random result deviating from chance and if you don't take that into account with the statistics you can get falsely positive results. Another example was called 'optional starting and stopping' - you may do hundreds and hundreds of trials but decided that there's a warm up period. A random warm up period in which the person being tested may suddenly start to guess correctly more often than chance and then that run will suddenly stop again unpredictably. This was interpreted as, again, a period where the subject was guessing psychically more greater than chance but, again, what that really amounts to a way sifting through large amounts of data picking up random runs with the subject performed better than chance and then cherry picking that subset of the data. Essentially you are not allowed to do that in research. You have to count all data points continuously otherwise it's not a truly random selection. So, therefore, these became classic examples of how to manipulate data in research. Psi researchers are no longer making these basic mistakes but as we will see in future instalments of 5x5, psi researchers become more sophisticated but even still they are still unable to generate consistently positive results.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_86&diff=8514 2013-11-13T15:53:28Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode as ready for proof-reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 86<br /> |Contents = PSI<br /> |episodeDate = 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; February 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-02-21.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,26350<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI ==<br /> <br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about parapsychology or psi.<br /> <br /> It was back in 1927, Professor of psychology Joseph Banks Rhine, attended a lecture at his place of employment, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The lecturer that night was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose the infamous author of the famed literary character Sherlock Holmes. And the subject of Doyle's lecture that night was on the scientific proof of communication with the dead. So impressed was Dr Rhine with that lecture that he began in earnest the scientific pursuit of what he termed 'abnormal psychology' or parapsychology. Hence, the modern parapsychology movement had officially begun. Through his utilisation of the Zener cards - that's a deck with five different distinct drawings that his subjects were asked to guess the correct card using only the power of their minds. Dr Rhine engaged in 5 years worth of tests in a quest to uncover the scientific evidence of psychic abilities. Culminating in his book published in 1934 titled 'Extrasensory perception' or more commonly referred to as ESP.<br /> <br /> ESP is just one type of psi which is spelt P.S.I. and is an abbreviation of parapsychology. This includes any paranormal mental activity such as reading minds, predicting the future, remote viewing - being able to see a remote location just with your mind, for example. Since Rhine, parapsychology or psi research has continued although in the last 80 years psi research has been unable to produce a single, reproducible laboratory phenomenon demonstrating that psi exists.<br /> <br /> Psi tests using shuffled Zener cards usually consisted of a sender looking at one card at a time whilst another person, the receiver, tried to telepathically receive the image of the card. Another common method involved simply one test subject guessing what the top card on the deck without anyone else looking at it. Since there are 5 different cards, there is a 20% chance of guessing the correct card assuming no feedback was coming from the sender therefore large trials of many hundreds or maybe even thousands of cards resulting in a hit rate significantly higher than chance most often requires an explanation other than chance. Some conclude psi must be the cause. Skeptics generally of course need to have other factors ruled out, like experimental design or perhaps even cheating.<br /> <br /> So, is there cheating involved? Well we do know that an early experiments Rhine used decks of Zener cards that were printed on very thin and translucent paper. This allowed test subjects to see through the card to identify the symbol. There is a lot of criticism towards Rhine's test methods and once he changed his methods to be more rigorous he wasn't able to find any high scoring test subjects to match his early successes. When he used a magician to observe E Pearce Junior one of his highest testing subjects Pearce's performance sunk back to chance levels. When not observed his scores were significantly higher.<br /> <br /> Also, the fact that the Zener card deck only contains 25 cards in which each card is discarded after use makes the chances less random than guessing. For example, in a full deck of Zener the statistical chance of guess one card correctly is 1 in 5. However, once you remove that card the chances become slightly higher because the deck now only contains 24 cards and so on. And the use of the Zener card deck is not truly random - for example there are only five instances in each deck that each symbol is represented. So runs of 6 identical symbols are impossible. In a truly random deck such runs would be possible.<br /> <br /> S: So this represents the classic error, if you will, of psi research and they made a number of what are now classic experimental mistakes. They all essentially amount to ways of cherry picking the data or only picking some subset of the data. One example of that is so called 'psi missing' in which the guesser, the person who is supposed to be psychically guessing what the target cards were, would miss more often than chance. However, if you look at the multiple different ways in which the result could deviate from chance - such as guessing correctly more often than would be predicted by chance or guessing incorrectly more often than would be predicted by chance - you're essentially doubling your chances of a random result deviating from chance and if you don't take that into account with the statistics you can get falsely positive results. Another example was called 'optional starting and stopping' - you may do hundreds and hundreds of trials but decided that there's a warm up period. A random warm up period in which the person being tested may suddenly start to guess correctly more often than chance and then that run will suddenly stop again unpredictably. This was interpreted as, again, a period where the subject was guessing psychically more greater than chance but, again, what that really amounts to a way sifting through large amounts of data picking up random runs with the subject performed better than chance and then cherry picking that subset of the data. Essentially you are not allowed to do that in research. You have to count all data points continuously otherwise it's not a truly random selection. So, therefore, these became classic examples of how to manipulate data in research. Psi researchers are no longer making these basic mistakes but as we will see in future instalments of 5x5, psi researchers become more sophisticated but even still they are still unable to generate consistently positive results.<br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_86&diff=8513 2013-11-13T15:52:42Z

<p>MrDuck: /* PSI */ - adding transcription</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 86<br /> |Contents = PSI<br /> |episodeDate = 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; February 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-02-21.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,26350<br /> |}}<br /> == PSI ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about parapsychology or psi.<br /> <br /> It was back in 1927, Professor of psychology Joseph Banks Rhine, attended a lecture at his place of employment, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The lecturer that night was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose the infamous author of the famed literary character Sherlock Holmes. And the subject of Doyle's lecture that night was on the scientific proof of communication with the dead. So impressed was Dr Rhine with that lecture that he began in earnest the scientific pursuit of what he termed 'abnormal psychology' or parapsychology. Hence, the modern parapsychology movement had officially begun. Through his utilisation of the Zener cards - that's a deck with five different distinct drawings that his subjects were asked to guess the correct card using only the power of their minds. Dr Rhine engaged in 5 years worth of tests in a quest to uncover the scientific evidence of psychic abilities. Culminating in his book published in 1934 titled 'Extrasensory perception' or more commonly referred to as ESP.<br /> <br /> ESP is just one type of psi which is spelt P.S.I. and is an abbreviation of parapsychology. This includes any paranormal mental activity such as reading minds, predicting the future, remote viewing - being able to see a remote location just with your mind, for example. Since Rhine, parapsychology or psi research has continued although in the last 80 years psi research has been unable to produce a single, reproducible laboratory phenomenon demonstrating that psi exists.<br /> <br /> Psi tests using shuffled Zener cards usually consisted of a sender looking at one card at a time whilst another person, the receiver, tried to telepathically receive the image of the card. Another common method involved simply one test subject guessing what the top card on the deck without anyone else looking at it. Since there are 5 different cards, there is a 20% chance of guessing the correct card assuming no feedback was coming from the sender therefore large trials of many hundreds or maybe even thousands of cards resulting in a hit rate significantly higher than chance most often requires an explanation other than chance. Some conclude psi must be the cause. Skeptics generally of course need to have other factors ruled out, like experimental design or perhaps even cheating.<br /> <br /> So, is there cheating involved? Well we do know that an early experiments Rhine used decks of Zener cards that were printed on very thin and translucent paper. This allowed test subjects to see through the card to identify the symbol. There is a lot of criticism towards Rhine's test methods and once he changed his methods to be more rigorous he wasn't able to find any high scoring test subjects to match his early successes. When he used a magician to observe E Pearce Junior one of his highest testing subjects Pearce's performance sunk back to chance levels. When not observed his scores were significantly higher.<br /> <br /> Also, the fact that the Zener card deck only contains 25 cards in which each card is discarded after use makes the chances less random than guessing. For example, in a full deck of Zener the statistical chance of guess one card correctly is 1 in 5. However, once you remove that card the chances become slightly higher because the deck now only contains 24 cards and so on. And the use of the Zener card deck is not truly random - for example there are only five instances in each deck that each symbol is represented. So runs of 6 identical symbols are impossible. In a truly random deck such runs would be possible.<br /> <br /> S: So this represents the classic error, if you will, of psi research and they made a number of what are now classic experimental mistakes. They all essentially amount to ways of cherry picking the data or only picking some subset of the data. One example of that is so called 'psi missing' in which the guesser, the person who is supposed to be psychically guessing what the target cards were, would miss more often than chance. However, if you look at the multiple different ways in which the result could deviate from chance - such as guessing correctly more often than would be predicted by chance or guessing incorrectly more often than would be predicted by chance - you're essentially doubling your chances of a random result deviating from chance and if you don't take that into account with the statistics you can get falsely positive results. Another example was called 'optional starting and stopping' - you may do hundreds and hundreds of trials but decided that there's a warm up period. A random warm up period in which the person being tested may suddenly start to guess correctly more often than chance and then that run will suddenly stop again unpredictably. This was interpreted as, again, a period where the subject was guessing psychically more greater than chance but, again, what that really amounts to a way sifting through large amounts of data picking up random runs with the subject performed better than chance and then cherry picking that subset of the data. Essentially you are not allowed to do that in research. You have to count all data points continuously otherwise it's not a truly random selection. So, therefore, these became classic examples of how to manipulate data in research. Psi researchers are no longer making these basic mistakes but as we will see in future instalments of 5x5, psi researchers become more sophisticated but even still they are still unable to generate consistently positive results.<br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=Template:5X5_episode_list&diff=8512 2013-11-12T10:20:26Z

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_74&diff=8511 2013-11-12T10:18:51Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode as ready for proof-reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 74<br /> |Contents = Perpetual Motion Machines<br /> |episodeDate = 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; August 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-08-04.mp3<br /> |forumLink = <br /> |}}<br /> == Perpetual Motion Machines ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about perpetual motion machines also known as free energy machines. (R: or scams). These are claims for machines that are called perpetual motion machines because they claims that they can move indefinitely or forever - that they can perpetually move. Or free energy machines because such machines can generate an endless supply of energy apparently, in some cases, out of nowhere. Of course, such machines can't possibly exist.<br /> <br /> Any why can't they exist? I wonder. There must be law of physics that determine that they cannot exist.<br /> <br /> Absolutely. These laws are called the laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics is the study of energy in all its forms whether it's chemical or kinetic or heat or light or even potential energy. It's a pretty complicated topic and I don't claim to be an expert at all on it but the laws at a very high level are relatively easy to understand and the first 2 that are most important and pertain to this topic are the 1st law of thermodynamics which is that energy is never created or destroyed - it changes from one form to another but it can never come from nothing or dissolve into nothing. And the 2nd law states that as energy changes from one form to another, some energy is inevitably lost as heat. This means that energy conversions are never 100% efficient. This is called entropy which measures the amount of disorder in a system. These are among those absolute laws of the universe. They are part of the fabric of the universe like time or gravity. They have never been observed to fail.<br /> <br /> R: And another absolute law of the universe is that every generation must have a perpetual motion machine that's proposed and that then fails. They have been around since, I think, the 1100s ish. <br /> <br /> Even before then Rebecca. Eighth century is when the first recording of potential perpetual motion machines have been documented.<br /> <br /> Even people like DaVinci and Bernoulli proposed different machines that they thought might work and of course none of them actually did.<br /> <br /> S: Sometimes people propose perpetual motion machines or free energy machines and claim that they do not violate the laws of thermodynamics but that they are tapping into some exotic or subtle energy source like zero point energy, for example. However, none of these proposals have panned out either. Essentially, the claim there is that physicists and scientists over the last couple of hundred years have missed this source of energy - this pretty basic fact about our universe but that this lone inventor - this crazy genius - has been able to figure out how to tap into this energy and will overnight solve all of our energy problems and transform our civilisation. There is nothing inherently impossible about this - it's just damn unlikely. And so far, despite the fact that there seems to be an endless sequence of such claims, no one has ever been able to do anything remotely like that.<br /> <br /> And, like most of these subjects when we talk about pseudosciences and the perpetual motion proponents are not free of this - they fall into two categories. People who believe that they actually have a machine that is in fact redefining the laws of physics and their under some sort of self-deception that this is actually working. And then there are the people who are trying to deceive other people and commit fraud in order to line their pockets with riches.<br /> <br /> S: Usually, the fraudulent end of the spectrum - it takes the form of looking for investors. They are looking for people to invest in this new technology. Because once it hits not only will you have the benefit of being able to produce endless energy that maybe you could sell back to the grid for example to make money. But also you will be on the ground floor of this transforming technology. So often they don't sell the thing itself, they sell the promise of the machine. The promise of investing in the research. Of course, the product itself is always just around the corner but it never, never arises. I also think that even though I do think that some people honestly believe that they have figured out something that everybody else have missed or tapping into some source of energy previously unknown to science - that they cut corners as well often. They maybe believe to some degree in what they are claiming but I don't they think that they cleanly separate from those who are committing fraud. I think that if they were - we would more often see admit that they were hopelessly wrong - that they made a mistake - that their claims are simply false. Usually, we don't get that confession or admission at the end that they were mistaken in their claims - they persist in their claims of having a perpetual motion machine even after it's disproven over and over again and we have seen this most recently in the Irish company Steorn that is persisted for years in claiming they have such a device despite negative expert reviews and failure to demonstrate what they claim they can do.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_74&diff=8510 2013-11-12T10:18:23Z

<p>MrDuck: Adding transcription</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 74<br /> |Contents = Perpetual Motion Machines<br /> |episodeDate = 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; August 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-08-04.mp3<br /> |forumLink = <br /> |}}<br /> == Perpetual Motion Machines ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about perpetual motion machines also known as free energy machines. (R: or scams). These are claims for machines that are called perpetual motion machines because they claims that they can move indefinitely or forever - that they can perpetually move. Or free energy machines because such machines can generate an endless supply of energy apparently, in some cases, out of nowhere. Of course, such machines can't possibly exist.<br /> <br /> Any why can't they exist? I wonder. There must be law of physics that determine that they cannot exist.<br /> <br /> Absolutely. These laws are called the laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics is the study of energy in all its forms whether it's chemical or kinetic or heat or light or even potential energy. It's a pretty complicated topic and I don't claim to be an expert at all on it but the laws at a very high level are relatively easy to understand and the first 2 that are most important and pertain to this topic are the 1st law of thermodynamics which is that energy is never created or destroyed - it changes from one form to another but it can never come from nothing or dissolve into nothing. And the 2nd law states that as energy changes from one form to another, some energy is inevitably lost as heat. This means that energy conversions are never 100% efficient. This is called entropy which measures the amount of disorder in a system. These are among those absolute laws of the universe. They are part of the fabric of the universe like time or gravity. They have never been observed to fail.<br /> <br /> R: And another absolute law of the universe is that every generation must have a perpetual motion machine that's proposed and that then fails. They have been around since, I think, the 1100s ish. <br /> <br /> Even before then Rebecca. Eighth century is when the first recording of potential perpetual motion machines have been documented.<br /> <br /> Even people like DaVinci and Bernoulli proposed different machines that they thought might work and of course none of them actually did.<br /> <br /> S: Sometimes people propose perpetual motion machines or free energy machines and claim that they do not violate the laws of thermodynamics but that they are tapping into some exotic or subtle energy source like zero point energy, for example. However, none of these proposals have panned out either. Essentially, the claim there is that physicists and scientists over the last couple of hundred years have missed this source of energy - this pretty basic fact about our universe but that this lone inventor - this crazy genius - has been able to figure out how to tap into this energy and will overnight solve all of our energy problems and transform our civilisation. There is nothing inherently impossible about this - it's just damn unlikely. And so far, despite the fact that there seems to be an endless sequence of such claims, no one has ever been able to do anything remotely like that.<br /> <br /> And, like most of these subjects when we talk about pseudosciences and the perpetual motion proponents are not free of this - they fall into two categories. People who believe that they actually have a machine that is in fact redefining the laws of physics and their under some sort of self-deception that this is actually working. And then there are the people who are trying to deceive other people and commit fraud in order to line their pockets with riches.<br /> <br /> S: Usually, the fraudulent end of the spectrum - it takes the form of looking for investors. They are looking for people to invest in this new technology. Because once it hits not only will you have the benefit of being able to produce endless energy that maybe you could sell back to the grid for example to make money. But also you will be on the ground floor of this transforming technology. So often they don't sell the thing itself, they sell the promise of the machine. The promise of investing in the research. Of course, the product itself is always just around the corner but it never, never arises. I also think that even though I do think that some people honestly believe that they have figured out something that everybody else have missed or tapping into some source of energy previously unknown to science - that they cut corners as well often. They maybe believe to some degree in what they are claiming but I don't they think that they cleanly separate from those who are committing fraud. I think that if they were - we would more often see admit that they were hopelessly wrong - that they made a mistake - that their claims are simply false. Usually, we don't get that confession or admission at the end that they were mistaken in their claims - they persist in their claims of having a perpetual motion machine even after it's disproven over and over again and we have seen this most recently in the Irish company Steorn that is persisted for years in claiming they have such a device despite negative expert reviews and failure to demonstrate what they claim they can do.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_71&diff=8506 2013-11-11T12:49:14Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode as ready for proof-reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 71<br /> |Contents = The Roswell UFO Mythology<br /> |episodeDate = 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; July 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-07-08.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21160<br /> |}}<br /> == The Roswell UFO Mythology ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: On July 8th 1947 the Roswell Army Airfield released a press release stating that personnel from the fields' 509th bomb group had recovered material from a 'flying disk' on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Thus starting the Roswell New Mexico UFO mythology. Although, it didn't mature until many decades afterwards.<br /> <br /> And actually Roswell is a bit of a misnomer. Not sure if you guys knew that - the crash actually took place closer to Corona New Mexico - that's a town that was closest to the alleged crash site and Roswell's actually the nearest military base.<br /> <br /> One of the interesting things about this - I mean this is a study in modern mythology - and we actually have fairly well documented how this story has evolved over time. And, we can see how the elements were added from other myths like when the grey aliens emerged as the typical icon of an alien then they became into the Roswell mythology. Although prior to the 1970s for almost 30 years there was no mention of any aliens at Roswell or having anything to do with the crash.<br /> <br /> Yeah that's right - its taken on not only a life of its own but several layers that have compounded the Roswell mythology. And that's exactly what it is - it is one the great American mythology that has evolved over the past 60+ years.<br /> <br /> S: One thing that is very interesting is how utterly ordinary and mundane the contemporary reports and accounts of the crash recovery are. For example, the rancher William Mac Brazel found this cluster of debris on his ranch some time in June of 1947 and anywhere between 1 and 3 weeks went by before he thought to report it to anybody. It didn't seem that out of the ordinary to him. It was described as a collection of rubber strips, tin foil, rather tough paper and sticks. <br /> <br /> B: Well clearly, these are pieces of a technologically advanced spaceship that came from another star.<br /> <br /> Right, yeah.<br /> <br /> That's right Bob it would take that kind of advancement in order to be able to use those mundane materials to travel intergalactic distances.<br /> <br /> S: It actually wasn't until after he heard about the whole flying saucer flap that he decided to report this to Sheriff Wilcox - thinking 'heh maybe this is one of those flying saucers' - just piggybacking on the flying disk or flying saucer story that was going around right at that time. And then the Sheriff, Sherrif Wilcox, reported to the Roswell army airfield. Major Jesse Marcel was the one who responded. That's what led to the famous press release that the army airforce base recovered a 'flying disk' that was before any information was gathered, the material was looked at - it was just a press secretary reacting to the reports - again going along with the story that was in the new cycle that month of that year about a flying disk being seen. But nothing again, really a very mundane description of the wreckage, no aliens, weeks going by without anyone thinking it was a big deal. It was really just that one press secretary saying the words 'flying disk' that started off the whole mythology off.<br /> <br /> Steve, I have one story from the Roswell incident that's definitely my favourite. And it's a very good example of taking something that's mundane and turning it into something fantastic. Now, when they found the weather balloon, the remnants of the crashed weather balloon that was sent up, somebody stated that they saw alien writing on the thing that this claim was a spaceship or whatever, but it was actually a weather balloon. And what that alien writing actually turned out to be as was reported by the scientist who put it on the weather balloon, last minute they ran to the store and got a children's decorative tape that had silly symbols on it and I always think it's cloud and ducks and stuff but it just had kid's fun symbols on it and that evolved into alien writing.<br /> <br /> S: Now, in the intervening years the airforce has explained this wreckage of not just an ordinary weather balloon but as project Mogul which was a secret spy balloon that we were using to spy on Soviet nuclear weapon's testing at the time. Which explains the reason that the military and the government at the time wanted to keep the thing a little bit hush, hush and squirrelled away the wreckage and wasn't forthcoming with all of the details at the time. But, that doesn't mean that they were covering up an alien spacecraft. The military keeping secrets doesn't equal flying saucers.<br /> <br /> Unless you are a conspiracy nut.<br /> <br /> S: Right.<br /> <br /> I like the description you guy's have given about this as a mythology. We can see how this mythology has grown over the years and common with I guess most mythologies is this concept of retrospective falsification, which Roswell is a classic example of. The idea behind this is that you have a fantastic story that is told and re-told and then details are embellished and there added to spice things up and then you have unfavourable details that are dropped. And this is exactly what happened with the Roswell story. If you compare what really happened with what its evolved into - it's a classic example.<br /> <br /> It is amazing - it makes you question any story from the past that went through any period where it was being passed around orally. I mean this shows you in the last 50 years you can turn a crashed weather balloon into a massive UFO cover-up with aliens and the men in black etc. Imagine, 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 1,000 years ago what an unusual occurrence might have evolved into through the re-telling. We can see how so many mythologies make up our culture and our belief system. <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_71&diff=8505 2013-11-11T12:48:36Z

<p>MrDuck: Transcription added</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 71<br /> |Contents = The Roswell UFO Mythology<br /> |episodeDate = 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; July 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-07-08.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21160<br /> |}}<br /> == The Roswell UFO Mythology ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: On July 8th 1947 the Roswell Army Airfield released a press release stating that personnel from the fields' 509th bomb group had recovered material from a 'flying disk' on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Thus starting the Roswell New Mexico UFO mythology. Although, it didn't mature until many decades afterwards.<br /> <br /> And actually Roswell is a bit of a misnomer. Not sure if you guys knew that - the crash actually took place closer to Corona New Mexico - that's a town that was closest to the alleged crash site and Roswell's actually the nearest military base.<br /> <br /> One of the interesting things about this - I mean this is a study in modern mythology - and we actually have fairly well documented how this story has evolved over time. And, we can see how the elements were added from other myths like when the grey aliens emerged as the typical icon of an alien then they became into the Roswell mythology. Although prior to the 1970s for almost 30 years there was no mention of any aliens at Roswell or having anything to do with the crash.<br /> <br /> Yeah that's right - its taken on not only a life of its own but several layers that have compounded the Roswell mythology. And that's exactly what it is - it is one the great American mythology that has evolved over the past 60+ years.<br /> <br /> S: One thing that is very interesting is how utterly ordinary and mundane the contemporary reports and accounts of the crash recovery are. For example, the rancher William Mac Brazel found this cluster of debris on his ranch some time in June of 1947 and anywhere between 1 and 3 weeks went by before he thought to report it to anybody. It didn't seem that out of the ordinary to him. It was described as a collection of rubber strips, tin foil, rather tough paper and sticks. <br /> <br /> B: Well clearly, these are pieces of a technologically advanced spaceship that came from another star.<br /> <br /> Right, yeah.<br /> <br /> That's right Bob it would take that kind of advancement in order to be able to use those mundane materials to travel intergalactic distances.<br /> <br /> S: It actually wasn't until after he heard about the whole flying saucer flap that he decided to report this to Sheriff Wilcox - thinking 'heh maybe this is one of those flying saucers' - just piggybacking on the flying disk or flying saucer story that was going around right at that time. And then the Sheriff, Sherrif Wilcox, reported to the Roswell army airfield. Major Jesse Marcel was the one who responded. That's what led to the famous press release that the army airforce base recovered a 'flying disk' that was before any information was gathered, the material was looked at - it was just a press secretary reacting to the reports - again going along with the story that was in the new cycle that month of that year about a flying disk being seen. But nothing again, really a very mundane description of the wreckage, no aliens, weeks going by without anyone thinking it was a big deal. It was really just that one press secretary saying the words 'flying disk' that started off the whole mythology off.<br /> <br /> Steve, I have one story from the Roswell incident that's definitely my favourite. And it's a very good example of taking something that's mundane and turning it into something fantastic. Now, when they found the weather balloon, the remnants of the crashed weather balloon that was sent up, somebody stated that they saw alien writing on the thing that this claim was a spaceship or whatever, but it was actually a weather balloon. And what that alien writing actually turned out to be as was reported by the scientist who put it on the weather balloon, last minute they ran to the store and got a children's decorative tape that had silly symbols on it and I always think it's cloud and ducks and stuff but it just had kid's fun symbols on it and that evolved into alien writing.<br /> <br /> S: Now, in the intervening years the airforce has explained this wreckage of not just an ordinary weather balloon but as project Mogul which was a secret spy balloon that we were using to spy on Soviet nuclear weapon's testing at the time. Which explains the reason that the military and the government at the time wanted to keep the thing a little bit hush, hush and squirrelled away the wreckage and wasn't forthcoming with all of the details at the time. But, that doesn't mean that they were covering up an alien spacecraft. The military keeping secrets doesn't equal flying saucers.<br /> <br /> Unless you are a conspiracy nut.<br /> <br /> S: Right.<br /> <br /> I like the description you guy's have given about this as a mythology. We can see how this mythology has grown over the years and common with I guess most mythologies is this concept of retrospective falsification, which Roswell is a classic example of. The idea behind this is that you have a fantastic story that is told and re-told and then details are embellished and there added to spice things up and then you have unfavourable details that are dropped. And this is exactly what happened with the Roswell story. If you compare what really happened with what its evolved into - it's a classic example.<br /> <br /> It is amazing - it makes you question any story from the past that went through any period where it was being passed around orally. I mean this shows you in the last 50 years you can turn a crashed weather balloon into a massive UFO cover-up with aliens and the men in black etc. Imagine, 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 1,000 years ago what an unusual occurrence might have evolved into through the re-telling. We can see how so many mythologies make up our culture and our belief system. <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_64&diff=8504 2013-11-11T10:27:45Z

<p>MrDuck: Minor changes</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 64<br /> |Contents = The Clever Hans Effect<br /> |episodeDate = 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; April 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-04-02.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,19341<br /> |}}<br /> == The Clever Hans Effect ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and we are talking about the Clever Hans effect.<br /> <br /> This term refers originally to a trained horse named Kluge Hans referred to in the literature as 'Clever Hans' who was taught by his master William von Osten to do maths and to report on this maths. So, William would ask the horse, ask Hans, to add 3 plus 2 and Hans would clop his hoof five times - for example. This made it seem as if the horse understood not only the spoken word but understood maths - was able to do mathematical calculations on his own - unprecedented in the animal kingdon. Several scientists reviewed this demonstration and declared it genuine. However, it turns out that when the proper controls were put into place namely that the people who knew the correct answer to whatever the question Hans was being told were not within sight of Hans, Hans could not come up with the correct answer. His performance was later to be found to be due to the ideomotor effect or to subtle cueing. What William von Osten was doing was, after he asked the question of Hans, he would stand a certain way, tilt his head a certain way. Hans recognised that as his cue to begin clopping when he got to the right answer then William would make another gesture he would stand up or nod his head he would give some indication that Hans had gotten the answer correct so the horse would stop clopping.<br /> <br /> All involuntary by the way.<br /> <br /> S: Yes, it's very important to notice that it was all involuntary.<br /> <br /> Meaning that his trainer really wasn't trying to signal the horse to tell him to stop doing it.<br /> <br /> R: His trainer genuinely thought that he had an amazing maths doing horse<br /> <br /> He did not realise that he was giving off these subtle signals.<br /> <br /> So, you know, it actually to me it's still pretty cool that the horse was able to pick up on those subtle movements that other people couldn't right away and eventually of course they did figure it out.<br /> <br /> R: I think that's why they still call him Clever Hans cause he really was clever<br /> <br /> As opposed to mathematician Hans!<br /> <br /> And there are other examples of this same phenomenon that have occurred in - when scientists have been studying animals and their behaviours such as the Nim Chimpsky project. So Nim was a chimpanzee and this project was studied in the 1970s. <br /> <br /> R: Nim Chimpsky! <br /> <br /> B: Which is of course a play on words which Noam Chomsky which is a famous linguist.<br /> <br /> R: Yeah you not what Bob, it's not as funny when you explain it!<br /> <br /> So there was scientisfitic interest in primary sign language training and they thought that this chimpanzee named Nim had abilities of signing beyond other chimpanzees to the point of almost a language that was being developed. But, when they studied the research what they realised what was happening the monkey was simply imitating more often than not the hand gestures and arm gestures of the trainer. And, in order for him to obtain some reward - he knew he was going to get a piece of food or something to that effect. And this again another Clever Hans effect.<br /> <br /> S: The Clever Hans effect has plagued animal communication research throughout its history. It's very difficult to completely control for any subconscious or subtle cueing. There is also a lot of forced fitting going on with animal communication research. For example, in another effect in addition to just imitating what the human trainer was doing it's also the chimpanzee or in some cases gorillas would do almost random signs until they got the result they were wanting. And the researchers who were interpreting the signs would use a lot of the same kind of confirmation basis techniques that even ESP researchers or others have fallen pray to like ignoring the first couple of signs until they got ones that made some kind of sense. Or saying that sometimes the chimpanzee has a sense of humour because he will say things that make no sense. When he makes sense he is communicating, when he doesn't make sense he is making a joke. And if they have to ignore a couple of signs here or there in order for it to make sense that's OK too. So there is a lot of ways in which it can appear that an animal communicating when in fact they may not actually understand syntax, understand language, understand the words but they are doing a learned behaviour in order to get a result from their trainers.<br /> <br /> And one more thing Steve - even when a researcher is consciously aware that they don't want to give a Clever Hans effect by unconsciously cueing the animal - a lot of times they can't even help themselves. They'll do it without even knowing it.<br /> <br /> S: Yeah absolutely - that's the key here is that it's all unintended and subconscious. This comes into play in situations with people as well. I think there is a lot of overlap between the Clever Hans effect and what we were seeing with the facilitated communication phenomenum where facilitators through the ideomotor effect unconsciously controlling the hands of children who were non-vocal because of development delay or mental retardation. And they were convinced that this child was able to communicate with this method and they were completely unaware of the fact that they were doing all the communicating themselves. It's essentially the same kind of phenomonon.<br /> <br /> R: Also, just today there was a news story - we are recording this on April 1st - and a couple of people sent me this and asked if its an April fools joke. This is an article on the BBC's website and the headline is 'Baby chicks do basic arithmetic' and basically researchers hid balls behind little screens and the chicks would always go to the screen with more balls hidden behind when they saw them placed back there. And it's kinda of compelling but at the same time it's pretty light on the details so you really have to wonder whether or not everything has been controlled for because it could be another Clever Hans but in an adorable chick form.<br /> <br /> S: Right, essentially whenever you see any study of animal behaviour like that, the first thing you think to yourself: are they controlling for Clever Hans type effects. If not, in my opinion, the research is almost worthless.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=Template:5X5_episode_list&diff=8503 2013-11-11T09:19:35Z

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_64&diff=8502 2013-11-11T09:17:35Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode as ready for proof reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 64<br /> |Contents = The Clever Hans Effect<br /> |episodeDate = 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; April 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-04-02.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,19341<br /> |}}<br /> == The Clever Hans Effect ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and we are talking about the Clever Hans effect.<br /> <br /> This term refers originally to a trained horse named Kluge Hans referred to in the literature as 'Clever Hans' who was taught by his master William von Osten to do maths and to report on this maths. So, William would ask the horse, ask Hans, to add 3 plus 2 and Hans would clop his hoof five times - for example. This made it seem as if the horse understood not only the spoken word but understood maths - was able to do mathematical calculations on his own - unprecedented in the animal kingdon. Several scientists reviewed this demonstration and declared it genuine. However, it turns out that when the proper controls were put into place namely that the people who knew the correct answer to whatever the question Hans was being told were not within sight of Hans, Hans could not come up with the correct answer. His performance was later to be found to be due to the ideomotor effect or to subtle cueing. What William von Osten was doing was, after he asked the question of Hans, he would stand a certain way, tilt his head a certain way. Hans recognised that as his cue to begin clopping when he got to the right answer then William would make another gesture he would stand up or nod his head he would give some indication that Hans had gotten the answer correct so the horse would stop clopping.<br /> <br /> All involuntary by the way.<br /> <br /> S: Yes, it's very important to notice that it was all involuntary.<br /> <br /> Meaning that his trainer really wasn't trying to signal the horse to tell him to stop doing it.<br /> <br /> R: His trainer genuinely thought that he had an amazing maths doing horse<br /> <br /> He did not realise that he was giving off these subtle signals.<br /> <br /> So, you know, it actually to me it's still pretty cool that the horse was able to pick up on those subtle movements that other people couldn't right away and eventually of course they did figure it out.<br /> <br /> R: I think that's why they still call him Clever Hans cause he really was clever<br /> <br /> As opposed to mathematician Hans!<br /> <br /> And there are other examples of this same phenomenon that have occurred in - when scientists have been studying animals and their behaviours such as the Nim Chimpsky project. So Nim was a chimpanzee and this project was studied in the 1970s. <br /> <br /> R: Nim Chimpsky! <br /> <br /> B: Which is of course a play on words which Noam Chomsky which is a famous linguist.<br /> <br /> R: Yeah you not what Bob, it's not as funny when you explain it!<br /> <br /> So there was scientisfitic interest in primary sign language training and they thought that this chimpanzee named Nim had abilities of signing beyond other chimpanzees to the point of almost a language that was being developed. But, when they studied the research what they realised what was happening the monkey was simply imitating more often than not the hand gestures and arm gestures of the trainer. And, in order for him to obtain some reward - he knew he was going to get a piece of food or something to that effect. And this again another Clever Hans effect.<br /> <br /> S: The Clever Hans effect has plagued animal communication research throughout its history. It's very difficult to completely control for any subconscious or subtle cueing. There is also a lot of forced fitting going on with animal communication research. For example, in another effect in addition to just imitating what the human trainer was doing it's also the chimpanzee or in some cases gorillas would do almost random signs until they got the result they were wanting. And the researchers who were interpreting the signs would use a lot of the same kind of confirmation basis techniques that even ESP researchers or others have fallen pray to like ignoring the first couple of signs until they got ones that made some kind of sense. Or saying that sometimes the chimpanzee has a sense of humour because he will say things that make no sense. When he makes sense he is communicating, when he doesn't make sense he is making a joke. And if they have to ignore a couple of signs here or there in order for it to make sense that's OK too. So there is a lot of ways in which it can appear that an animal communicating when in fact they may not actually understand syntax, understand language, understand the words but they are doing a learned behaviour in order to get a result from their trainers.<br /> <br /> And one more thing Steve - even when a researcher is consciously aware that they don't want to give a Clever Hans effect by unconsciously cueing the animal - a lot of times they can't even help themselves. They'll do it without even knowing it.<br /> <br /> S: Yeah absolutely - that's the key here is that's its all unintended and subconscious. This comes into play in situations with people as well. I think there is a lot of overlap between the Clever Hans effect and what we were seeing with the facilitated communication phenomenum where facilitators through the ideomotor effect unconsciously controlling the hands of children who were non-vocal because of development delay or mental retardation. And they were convinced that this child was able to communicate with this method and they were completely unaware of the fact that they were doing all the communicating themselves. It's essentially the same kind of phenomonon.<br /> <br /> R: Also, just today there was a news story - we are recording this on April 1st - and a couple of people sent me this and asked if its an April fools joke. This is an article on the BBC's website and the headline is 'Baby chicks do basic arithmetic' and basically researchers hid balls behind little screens and the chicks would always go to the screen with more balls hidden behind when they saw them placed back there. And its kinda of compelling but at the same time its pretty light on the details so you really have to wonder whether or not everything has been controlled for because it could be another Clever Hans but in an adorable chick form.<br /> <br /> S: Right, essentially whenever you see any study of animal behaviour like that the first thing you think to yourself: are they controlling for Clever Hans type effects. If not in my opinion the research is almost worthless.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_64&diff=8501 2013-11-11T09:16:57Z

<p>MrDuck: Transcription added</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 64<br /> |Contents = The Clever Hans Effect<br /> |episodeDate = 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; April 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-04-02.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,19341<br /> |}}<br /> == The Clever Hans Effect ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and we are talking about the Clever Hans effect.<br /> <br /> This term refers originally to a trained horse named Kluge Hans referred to in the literature as 'Clever Hans' who was taught by his master William von Osten to do maths and to report on this maths. So, William would ask the horse, ask Hans, to add 3 plus 2 and Hans would clop his hoof five times - for example. This made it seem as if the horse understood not only the spoken word but understood maths - was able to do mathematical calculations on his own - unprecedented in the animal kingdon. Several scientists reviewed this demonstration and declared it genuine. However, it turns out that when the proper controls were put into place namely that the people who knew the correct answer to whatever the question Hans was being told were not within sight of Hans, Hans could not come up with the correct answer. His performance was later to be found to be due to the ideomotor effect or to subtle cueing. What William von Osten was doing was, after he asked the question of Hans, he would stand a certain way, tilt his head a certain way. Hans recognised that as his cue to begin clopping when he got to the right answer then William would make another gesture he would stand up or nod his head he would give some indication that Hans had gotten the answer correct so the horse would stop clopping.<br /> <br /> All involuntary by the way.<br /> <br /> S: Yes, it's very important to notice that it was all involuntary.<br /> <br /> Meaning that his trainer really wasn't trying to signal the horse to tell him to stop doing it.<br /> <br /> R: His trainer genuinely thought that he had an amazing maths doing horse<br /> <br /> He did not realise that he was giving off these subtle signals.<br /> <br /> So, you know, it actually to me it's still pretty cool that the horse was able to pick up on those subtle movements that other people couldn't right away and eventually of course they did figure it out.<br /> <br /> R: I think that's why they still call him Clever Hans cause he really was clever<br /> <br /> As opposed to mathematician Hans!<br /> <br /> And there are other examples of this same phenomenon that have occurred in - when scientists have been studying animals and their behaviours such as the Nim Chimpsky project. So Nim was a chimpanzee and this project was studied in the 1970s. <br /> <br /> R: Nim Chimpsky! <br /> <br /> B: Which is of course a play on words which Noam Chomsky which is a famous linguist.<br /> <br /> R: Yeah you not what Bob, it's not as funny when you explain it!<br /> <br /> So there was scientisfitic interest in primary sign language training and they thought that this chimpanzee named Nim had abilities of signing beyond other chimpanzees to the point of almost a language that was being developed. But, when they studied the research what they realised what was happening the monkey was simply imitating more often than not the hand gestures and arm gestures of the trainer. And, in order for him to obtain some reward - he knew he was going to get a piece of food or something to that effect. And this again another Clever Hans effect.<br /> <br /> S: The Clever Hans effect has plagued animal communication research throughout its history. It's very difficult to completely control for any subconscious or subtle cueing. There is also a lot of forced fitting going on with animal communication research. For example, in another effect in addition to just imitating what the human trainer was doing it's also the chimpanzee or in some cases gorillas would do almost random signs until they got the result they were wanting. And the researchers who were interpreting the signs would use a lot of the same kind of confirmation basis techniques that even ESP researchers or others have fallen pray to like ignoring the first couple of signs until they got ones that made some kind of sense. Or saying that sometimes the chimpanzee has a sense of humour because he will say things that make no sense. When he makes sense he is communicating, when he doesn't make sense he is making a joke. And if they have to ignore a couple of signs here or there in order for it to make sense that's OK too. So there is a lot of ways in which it can appear that an animal communicating when in fact they may not actually understand syntax, understand language, understand the words but they are doing a learned behaviour in order to get a result from their trainers.<br /> <br /> And one more thing Steve - even when a researcher is consciously aware that they don't want to give a Clever Hans effect by unconsciously cueing the animal - a lot of times they can't even help themselves. They'll do it without even knowing it.<br /> <br /> S: Yeah absolutely - that's the key here is that's its all unintended and subconscious. This comes into play in situations with people as well. I think there is a lot of overlap between the Clever Hans effect and what we were seeing with the facilitated communication phenomenum where facilitators through the ideomotor effect unconsciously controlling the hands of children who were non-vocal because of development delay or mental retardation. And they were convinced that this child was able to communicate with this method and they were completely unaware of the fact that they were doing all the communicating themselves. It's essentially the same kind of phenomonon.<br /> <br /> R: Also, just today there was a news story - we are recording this on April 1st - and a couple of people sent me this and asked if its an April fools joke. This is an article on the BBC's website and the headline is 'Baby chicks do basic arithmetic' and basically researchers hid balls behind little screens and the chicks would always go to the screen with more balls hidden behind when they saw them placed back there. And its kinda of compelling but at the same time its pretty light on the details so you really have to wonder whether or not everything has been controlled for because it could be another Clever Hans but in an adorable chick form.<br /> <br /> S: Right, essentially whenever you see any study of animal behaviour like that the first thing you think to yourself: are they controlling for Clever Hans type effects. If not in my opinion the research is almost worthless.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_73&diff=8494 2013-11-10T22:28:37Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode as ready for proof reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 73<br /> |Contents = The Age of the Earth<br /> |episodeDate = 22&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; July 2009<br /> |rebecca = y<br /> |bob = y<br /> |jay = y<br /> |evan = y<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-07-22.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21563<br /> |}}<br /> == The Age of the Earth ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about the age of the earth. Scientists currently estimate the age of the earth to be around 4.55 billion years but how do we know how old the earth is and how certain are we of that date? <br /> <br /> E: That's been a question that scientists and philosophers and lots of people have asked since the well the beginning of civilisation almost. And for quite a long time it was believed, or widely held, that the earth was perhaps only a few thousand years old - as various books of the bible tell you. Right up until the 1700s that was the preferred view until the age of science and reason started to come along which started to collect data about the earth and we realised well its quite a bit older than that. Estimates ranged in the 1700s from as low as say 75,000 years old up to several billions of years old. So there was a whole wide variety of opinions at that point as we were collecting the data. And once we got into the 1800s we started to get that refined a little bit. We knew it was at least hundreds af millions years old, perhaps billions of years old but it really wasn't until the turn of the twentieth century when radiometric dating become available to us and we started to really get a much better sense of the age of the earth.<br /> <br /> B: The age of the earth is like so much in science there are so many independent lines of evidence that converge on roughly the same value. If the accepted age were wrong by a significant amount much of geology, physics and other sciences would need drastic revisions. Some of our best evidence though includes different methods of radiometric dating as you mentioned Evan. Radiometric rocks found on earth and from space. This depends on the decay of unstable isotopes to more stable isotopes over vast stretches of time. By looking at the ratios of these parent isotopes compared to the daughter isotopes we can determine how much time it took to produce them. The oldest earth rocks are about 3.8 billion years and this is the lower limit since plate tectonics pretty much have destroyed any rocks older than that. Now if we make the reasonable assumption that the earth formed at the time our solar system did then dating meteorites provides the most direct method of dating the earth. Similar dating techniques used on meteorites from different locations of the solar system all produce consistent ages of the solar system and earth - at about 4.55 billion years.<br /> <br /> S: Thats right. Interestingly, there is one particular meteorite, the Canyon Diablo meteorite, that is considered to be the most reliable single meteorite to date because of its composition. It allows for more precision in determining the ratios of the parent and the daughter particles that essentially they use lead dating on this and this one comes up with a date of 4.53 to 4.58 billion years. And as you say Bob that is based on the assumption that when the disc, the solar disc of material around the sun formed and things solidified thats when the planets formed so meteorites formed at the same time the earth was forming.<br /> <br /> R: Of course not everybody dates the earth to billions of years. There are of course the young earth creationists who decided to reject all science and evidence and instead get the age of the earth from the bible by literally adding the lifetimes of people mentioned adding those 7 days at the start and coming up to a figure of around 6,000 years. Others sum do give it a little bit of give and say could go up to 10,000 years old. Claims that are so ridiculous as to defy explanation as to how someone could believe something so silly since literally all evidence shows that the earth is so very much older than that.<br /> <br /> S: Yeah they get into a lot of problems when they have to explain things like the Grand Canyon.<br /> <br /> R: Right, the Grand Canyon is according to them the grand canyon was formed by a flood which has been showed again and again to be a completely untenable theory. A lot of processes that would take millions of years including evolution of course they come up with new and more ridiculous explanations for.<br /> <br /> You know an interesting thing that creationists say is that god created the earth to actually look like it was created a much longer time ago including inserting dinosaur bones into the soil. But it's an untestable theory. <br /> <br /> S: Right, its the unfalsifiable hypotheses so they have just exited the realm of science. Some try to make more sciencey types of arguments for a young earth. Two common arguments that are put forward for a young earth - one is that at the rate at which dust is accumulating on the moon over billions of years there should be a hundred or hundreds of feet of lunar dust and then the Apollo landers would have sunk down into this dust when they landed on the moon. But of course they just get the maths wrong and they use erroneous figures in order to come up with that. The other argument is that the rate at which salt is collecting in the ocean is such that over millions of years far too much salt would have accumulated but again they are getting their maths wrong. They are neglecting geological processes that are removing salt from the oceans. We are pretty close to steady state in terms of not necessarily exactly year to year but the amount of salt in time going into the oceans and coming out is roughly in steady state. And of course we would have noticed if salt were accumulating in the ocean over the last couple of hundred years at the rate that those creationists say it is accumulating in order to come up with their figures. We can say empirically that they are wrong rather than just extrapolating from what we can observe today. So those types of argument for the earth having to be very young all collapse under close inspection.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_73&diff=8492 2013-11-10T22:26:02Z

<p>MrDuck: /* The Age of the Earth */</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 73<br /> |Contents = The Age of the Earth<br /> |episodeDate = 22&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; July 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-07-22.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21563<br /> |}}<br /> == The Age of the Earth ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about the age of the earth. Scientists currently estimate the age of the earth to be around 4.55 billion years but how do we know how old the earth is and how certain are we of that date? <br /> <br /> E: That's been a question that scientists and philosophers and lots of people have asked since the well the beginning of civilisation almost. And for quite a long time it was believed, or widely held, that the earth was perhaps only a few thousand years old - as various books of the bible tell you. Right up until the 1700s that was the preferred view until the age of science and reason started to come along which started to collect data about the earth and we realised well its quite a bit older than that. Estimates ranged in the 1700s from as low as say 75,000 years old up to several billions of years old. So there was a whole wide variety of opinions at that point as we were collecting the data. And once we got into the 1800s we started to get that refined a little bit. We knew it was at least hundreds af millions years old, perhaps billions of years old but it really wasn't until the turn of the twentieth century when radiometric dating become available to us and we started to really get a much better sense of the age of the earth.<br /> <br /> B: The age of the earth is like so much in science there are so many independent lines of evidence that converge on roughly the same value. If the accepted age were wrong by a significant amount much of geology, physics and other sciences would need drastic revisions. Some of our best evidence though includes different methods of radiometric dating as you mentioned Evan. Radiometric rocks found on earth and from space. This depends on the decay of unstable isotopes to more stable isotopes over vast stretches of time. By looking at the ratios of these parent isotopes compared to the daughter isotopes we can determine how much time it took to produce them. The oldest earth rocks are about 3.8 billion years and this is the lower limit since plate tectonics pretty much have destroyed any rocks older than that. Now if we make the reasonable assumption that the earth formed at the time our solar system did then dating meteorites provides the most direct method of dating the earth. Similar dating techniques used on meteorites from different locations of the solar system all produce consistent ages of the solar system and earth - at about 4.55 billion years.<br /> <br /> S: Thats right. Interestingly, there is one particular meteorite, the Canyon Diablo meteorite, that is considered to be the most reliable single meteorite to date because of its composition. It allows for more precision in determining the ratios of the parent and the daughter particles that essentially they use lead dating on this and this one comes up with a date of 4.53 to 4.58 billion years. And as you say Bob that is based on the assumption that when the disc, the solar disc of material around the sun formed and things solidified thats when the planets formed so meteorites formed at the same time the earth was forming.<br /> <br /> R: Of course not everybody dates the earth to billions of years. There are of course the young earth creationists who decided to reject all science and evidence and instead get the age of the earth from the bible by literally adding the lifetimes of people mentioned adding those 7 days at the start and coming up to a figure of around 6,000 years. Others sum do give it a little bit of give and say could go up to 10,000 years old. Claims that are so ridiculous as to defy explanation as to how someone could believe something so silly since literally all evidence shows that the earth is so very much older than that.<br /> <br /> S: Yeah they get into a lot of problems when they have to explain things like the Grand Canyon.<br /> <br /> R: Right, the Grand Canyon is according to them the grand canyon was formed by a flood which has been showed again and again to be a completely untenable theory. A lot of processes that would take millions of years including evolution of course they come up with new and more ridiculous explanations for.<br /> <br /> You know an interesting thing that creationists say is that god created the earth to actually look like it was created a much longer time ago including inserting dinosaur bones into the soil. But it's an untestable theory. <br /> <br /> S: Right, its the unfalsifiable hypotheses so they have just exited the realm of science. Some try to make more sciencey types of arguments for a young earth. Two common arguments that are put forward for a young earth - one is that at the rate at which dust is accumulating on the moon over billions of years there should be a hundred or hundreds of feet of lunar dust and then the Apollo landers would have sunk down into this dust when they landed on the moon. But of course they just get the maths wrong and they use erroneous figures in order to come up with that. The other argument is that the rate at which salt is collecting in the ocean is such that over millions of years far too much salt would have accumulated but again they are getting their maths wrong. They are neglecting geological processes that are removing salt from the oceans. We are pretty close to steady state in terms of not necessarily exactly year to year but the amount of salt in time going into the oceans and coming out is roughly in steady state. And of course we would have noticed if salt were accumulating in the ocean over the last couple of hundred years at the rate that those creationists say it is accumulating in order to come up with their figures. We can say empirically that they are wrong rather than just extrapolating from what we can observe today. So those types of argument for the earth having to be very young all collapse under close inspection.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_73&diff=8491 2013-11-10T22:25:42Z

<p>MrDuck: Transript - first draft</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 73<br /> |Contents = The Age of the Earth<br /> |episodeDate = 22&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; July 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-07-22.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21563<br /> |}}<br /> == The Age of the Earth ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about the age of the earth. Scientists currently estimate the age of the earth to be around 4.55 billion years but how do we know how old the earth is and how certain are we of that date? <br /> <br /> E: That's been a question that scientists and philosophers and lots of people have asked since the well the beginning of civilisation almost. And for quite a long time it was believed, or widely held, that the earth was perhaps only a few thousand years old - as various books of the bible tell you. Right up until the 1700s that was the preferred view until the age of science and reason started to come along which started to collect data about the earth and we realised well its quite a bit older than that. Estimates ranged in the 1700s from as low as say 75,000 years old up to several billions of years old. So there was a whole wide variety of opinions at that point as we were collecting the data. And once we got into the 1800s we started to get that refined a little bit. We knew it was at least hundreds af millions years old, perhaps billions of years old but it really wasn't until the turn of the twentieth century when radiometric dating become available to us and we started to really get a much better sense of the age of the earth.<br /> <br /> B: The age of the earth is like so much in science there are so many independent lines of evidence that converge on roughly the same value. If the accepted age were wrong by a significant amount much of geology, physics and other sciences would need drastic revisions. Some of our best evidence though includes different methods of radiometric dating as you mentioned Evan. Radiometric rocks found on earth and from space. This depends on the decay of unstable isotopes to more stable isotopes over vast stretches of time. By looking at the ratios of these parent isotopes compared to the daughter isotopes we can determine how much time it took to produce them. The oldest earth rocks are about 3.8 billion years and this is the lower limit since plate tectonics pretty much have destroyed any rocks older than that. Now if we make the reasonable assumption that the earth formed at the time our solar system did then dating meteorites provides the most direct method of dating the earth. Similar dating techniques used on meteorites from different locations of the solar system all produce consistent ages of the solar system and earth - at about 4.55 billion years.<br /> <br /> S: Thats right. Interestingly, there is one particular meteorite, the Canyon Diablo meteorite, that is considered to be the most reliable single meteorite to date because of its composition. It allows for more precision in determining the ratios of the parent and the daughter particles that essentially they use lead dating on this and this one comes up with a date of 4.53 to 4.58 billion years. And as you say Bob that is based on the assumption that when the disc, the solar disc of material around the sun formed and things solidified thats when the planets formed so meteorites formed at the same time the earth was forming.<br /> <br /> R: Of course not everybody dates the earth to billions of years. There are of course the young earth creationists who decided to reject all science and evidence and instead get the age of the earth from the bible by literally adding the lifetimes of people mentioned adding those 7 days at the start and coming up to a figure of around 6,000 years. Others sum do give it a little bit of give and say could go up to 10,000 years old. Claims that are so ridiculous as to defy explanation as to how someone could believe something so silly since literally all evidence shows that the earth is so very much older than that.<br /> <br /> S: Yeah they get into a lot of problems when they have to explain things like the Grand Canyon.<br /> <br /> R: Right, the Grand Canyon is according to them the grand canyon was formed by a flood which has been showed again and again to be a completely untenable theory. A lot of processes that would take millions of years including evolution of course they come up with new and more ridiculous explanations for.<br /> <br /> You know an interesting thing that creationists say is that god created the earth to actually look like it was created a much longer time ago including inserting dinosaur bones into the soil. But it's an untestable theory. <br /> <br /> Right, its the unfalsifiable hypotheses so they have just exited the realm of science. Some try to make more sciencey types of arguments for a young earth. Two common arguments that are put forward for a young earth - one is that at the rate at which dust is accumulating on the moon over billions of years there should be a hundred or hundreds of feet of lunar dust and then the Apollo landers would have sunk down into this dust when they landed on the moon. But of course they just get the maths wrong and they use erroneous figures in order to come up with that. The other argument is that the rate at which salt is collecting in the ocean is such that over millions of years far too much salt would have accumulated but again they are getting their maths wrong. They are neglecting geological processes that are removing salt from the oceans. We are pretty close to steady state in terms of not necessarily exactly year to year but the amount of salt in time going into the oceans and coming out is roughly in steady state. And of course we would have noticed if salt were accumulating in the ocean over the last couple of hundred years at the rate that those creationists say it is accumulating in order to come up with their figures. We can say empirically that they are wrong rather than just extrapolating from what we can observe today. So those types of argument for the earth having to be very young all collapse under close inspection.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_70&diff=8482 2013-11-09T22:17:15Z

<p>MrDuck: Minor mods</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 70<br /> |Contents = New Element Discovered<br /> |episodeDate = 30&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; June 2009<br /> |rebecca = y <br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-06-30.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21003<br /> |}}<br /> == New Element Discovered ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about a newly discovered super heavy element.<br /> <br /> R: He's not heavy - he's just my element<br /> <br /> An element with no name. Actually, the element was discovered 13 years ago by scientists at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. They created this super heavy element that is not on the periodic table of the elements that we all know and love. Now, 13 years later the IUPAC (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) have finally given this new element it's blessing after the element was independently verified - which is one of the things that's required for them to sign off on a new element - somebody else has to independently create this element. So, all that is needed now is an official name so that it can then be added to the periodic table. I suggest Skeptonium.<br /> <br /> Skeptonium?<br /> <br /> Well Richard Saunders put a bid in - he wanted it to be called Elementominium. Oh Richard.<br /> <br /> R: And Richard Wiseman is starting a campaign for it to be called Kyrptonite.<br /> <br /> S: Although, there is already a Kyrptonite<br /> <br /> R: I know - I think it's confusing.<br /> <br /> They should call it Dolermite. <br /> <br /> There is already a short list that the researchers are keeping close to their vest - so we won't know.<br /> <br /> What I don't get is that we all knew it was there - right. It doesn't take a genius to see when you are looking through the periodic table, element 109, 110, 111, 112, - gap - 114. I mean.<br /> <br /> Yeah<br /> <br /> I had it figured out.<br /> <br /> I agree. I take exception with the whole notion of 'discovering' this new element. They actually didn't discover - it wasn't like it was out there in the universe and they found it. Which was the case with example - they created it - they created it - they took a super-collider and they smashed some zinc into some lead and eventually they got it to fuse together and by the rapid decay of the result they were able to show that, for a fleeting moment, one of the atoms had 112 protons. The number of protons is what determines the atomic number. The atomic number thats right - and then the number of neutrons determines the isotope. So, this was a 112 proton element. These things don't last for very long because there at the upper limit of an atoms' ability to hang together. They have a tendency to break apart because the repulsive force from the positive protons are exceeding the attractive forces of the nuclear force.<br /> <br /> Then why, therefore, under the natural forces of nature can you only get to a certain point and then it takes mankind to exceed the point that nature can otherwise yield.<br /> <br /> Well, its not so much that they can't be made - maybe these things are being made in supernova explosions - its that they are extremely unstable - they last for milliseconds. So if 112 was made in a supernova it would have long since decayed. It just have to do with the balance of the different types of forces, the electromagnetic forces trying to break apart the nucleus mainly from the repulsive of the positive protons exceeds the attractive force of the nuclear forces. So, its just the upper limit of the stability of a nucleus to hold together.<br /> <br /> Now, we have mentioned how unstable they are. Yet, scientists theorise though that beyond uranium which is 92 protons there may be an island of stability in which elements can contain a specific 'magic' number of protons and neutrons that would give them much greater stability - and a half life that is much, much longer. Perhaps, in terms of hours, days, months - something that we ould actually study more closely and maybe who knows maybe we can even put some of these new elements with novel properties to use.<br /> <br /> Umm, first of all, who gets to name a new element that is found. <br /> <br /> The discoverers or the creators. <br /> <br /> You have to create it, no matter how fleetingly it is in existence you get to name it if you make it and you prove that you made it in a laboratory.<br /> <br /> If you create it and it's verified independently by other people, then you can name it - its your baby.<br /> <br /> Bear in mind only 4 atoms of this element have been known to exist. That's it. But that's enough apparently.<br /> <br /> And what's the purpose of creating these elements if they just exist for a blip. Why do we care?<br /> <br /> Yeah, that's a good question Jay. It might seem like it's a little indulgent for them to just create these things and 'oh there it is and it's gone' and what can you do with these things - they are so fleeting. Scientists can actually learn a lot about nuclear power plants and atomic bombs and how they function by studying this so we can learn a lot by this type of stuff. <br /> <br /> S: Yeah we are not going to be building stuff out of element 112 any time soon but it is a way of exploring particle physics essentially.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=Template:5X5_episode_list&diff=8481 2013-11-09T22:15:49Z

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_70&diff=8480 2013-11-09T22:12:30Z

<p>MrDuck: Marking episode 70 as ready for proof reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 70<br /> |Contents = New Element Discovered<br /> |episodeDate = 30&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; June 2009<br /> |rebecca = y <br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-06-30.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21003<br /> |}}<br /> == New Element Discovered ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about a newly discovered super heavy element.<br /> <br /> R: He's not heavy - he's just my element<br /> <br /> An element with no name. Actually, the element was discovered 13 years ago by scientists at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. They created this super heavy element that is not on the periodic table of the elements that we all know and love. Now, 13 years later the IUPAC (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) have finally given this new element it's blessing after the element was independently verified which is one of the things that's required for them to sign off on a new element - somebody else has to independently create this element. So, all that is needed now is an official name so that it can then be added to the periodic table. I suggest Skeptonium.<br /> <br /> Skeptonium?<br /> <br /> Well Richard Saunders put a bid in - he wanted it to be called Elementominium. Oh Richard.<br /> <br /> R: And Richard Wiseman is starting a campaign for it to be called Kyrptonite.<br /> <br /> S: Although, there is already a Kyrptonite<br /> <br /> R: I know - I think it's confusing.<br /> <br /> They should call it Dolermite. <br /> <br /> There is already a short list that the researchers are keeping close to their vest - so we won't know.<br /> <br /> What I don't get is that we all knew it was there - right. It doesn't take a genius to see when you are looking through the periodic table, element 109, 110, 111, 112, - gap - 114. I mean.<br /> <br /> Yeah<br /> <br /> I had it figured out.<br /> <br /> I agree. I take exception with the whole notion of 'discovering' this new element. They actually didn't discover - it wasn't like it was out there in the universe and they found it. Which was the case with example - they created it - they created it - they took a super-collider and they smashed some zinc into some lead and eventually they got it to fuse together and by the rapid decay of the result they were able to show that, for a fleeting moment, one of the atoms had 112 protons. The number of protons is what determines the atomic number. The atomic number thats right - and then the number of neutrons determines the isotope. So, this was a 112 proton element. These things don't last for very long because there at the upper limit of an atoms' ability to hang together. They have a tendency to break apart because the repulsive force from the positive protons are exceeding the attractive forces of the nuclear force.<br /> <br /> Then why, therefore, under the natural forces of nature can you only get to a certain point and then it takes mankind to exceed the point that nature can otherwise yield.<br /> <br /> Well, its not so much that they can't be made - maybe these things are being made in supernova explosions - its that they are extremely unstable - they last for milliseconds. So if 112 was made in a supernova it would have long since decayed. It just have to do with the balance of the different types of forces, the electromagnetic forces trying to break apart the nucleus mainly from the repulsive of the positive protons exceeds the attractive force of the nuclear forces. So, its just the upper limit of the stability of a nucleus to hold together.<br /> <br /> Now, we have mentioned how unstable they are. Yet, scientists theorise though that beyond uranium which is 92 protons there may be an island of stability in which elements can contain a specific 'magic' number of protons and neutrons that would give them much greater stability - and a half life that is much, much longer. Perhaps, in terms of hours, days, months - something that we ould actually study more closely and maybe who knows maybe we can even put some of these new elements with novel properties to use.<br /> <br /> Umm, first of all, who gets to name a new element that is found. <br /> <br /> The discoverers or the creators. <br /> <br /> You have to create it, no matter how fleetingly it is in existence you get to name it if you make it and you prove that you made it in a laboratory.<br /> <br /> If you create it and it's verified independently by other people, then you can name it - its your baby.<br /> <br /> Bear in mind only 4 atoms of this element have been known to exist. That's it. But that's enough apparently.<br /> <br /> And what's the purpose of creating these elements if they just exist for a blip. Why do we care?<br /> <br /> Yeah, that's a good question Jay. It might seem like it's a little indulgent for them to just create these things and 'oh there it is and it's gone' and what can you do with these things - they are so fleeting. Scientists can actually learn a lot about nuclear power plants and atomic bombs and how they function by studying this so we can learn a lot by this type of stuff. <br /> <br /> S: Yeah we are not going to be building stuff out of element 112 any time soon but it is a way of exploring particle physics essentially.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_70&diff=8479 2013-11-09T22:11:26Z

<p>MrDuck: Transcript added</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 70<br /> |Contents = New Element Discovered<br /> |episodeDate = 30&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; June 2009<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-06-30.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,21003<br /> |}}<br /> == New Element Discovered ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and tonight we are talking about a newly discovered super heavy element.<br /> <br /> R: He's not heavy - he's just my element<br /> <br /> An element with no name. Actually, the element was discovered 13 years ago by scientists at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. They created this super heavy element that is not on the periodic table of the elements that we all know and love. Now, 13 years later the IUPAC (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) have finally given this new element it's blessing after the element was independently verified which is one of the things that's required for them to sign off on a new element - somebody else has to independently create this element. So, all that is needed now is an official name so that it can then be added to the periodic table. I suggest Skeptonium.<br /> <br /> Skeptonium?<br /> <br /> Well Richard Saunders put a bid in - he wanted it to be called Elementominium. Oh Richard.<br /> <br /> R: And Richard Wiseman is starting a campaign for it to be called Kyrptonite.<br /> <br /> S: Although, there is already a Kyrptonite<br /> <br /> R: I know - I think it's confusing.<br /> <br /> They should call it Dolermite. <br /> <br /> There is already a short list that the researchers are keeping close to their vest - so we won't know.<br /> <br /> What I don't get is that we all knew it was there - right. It doesn't take a genius to see when you are looking through the periodic table, element 109, 110, 111, 112, - gap - 114. I mean.<br /> <br /> Yeah<br /> <br /> I had it figured out.<br /> <br /> I agree. I take exception with the whole notion of 'discovering' this new element. They actually didn't discover - it wasn't like it was out there in the universe and they found it. Which was the case with example - they created it - they created it - they took a super-collider and they smashed some zinc into some lead and eventually they got it to fuse together and by the rapid decay of the result they were able to show that, for a fleeting moment, one of the atoms had 112 protons. The number of protons is what determines the atomic number. The atomic number thats right - and then the number of neutrons determines the isotope. So, this was a 112 proton element. These things don't last for very long because there at the upper limit of an atoms' ability to hang together. They have a tendency to break apart because the repulsive force from the positive protons are exceeding the attractive forces of the nuclear force.<br /> <br /> Then why, therefore, under the natural forces of nature can you only get to a certain point and then it takes mankind to exceed the point that nature can otherwise yield.<br /> <br /> Well, its not so much that they can't be made - maybe these things are being made in supernova explosions - its that they are extremely unstable - they last for milliseconds. So if 112 was made in a supernova it would have long since decayed. It just have to do with the balance of the different types of forces, the electromagnetic forces trying to break apart the nucleus mainly from the repulsive of the positive protons exceeds the attractive force of the nuclear forces. So, its just the upper limit of the stability of a nucleus to hold together.<br /> <br /> Now, we have mentioned how unstable they are. Yet, scientists theorise though that beyond uranium which is 92 protons there may be an island of stability in which elements can contain a specific 'magic' number of protons and neutrons that would give them much greater stability - and a half life that is much, much longer. Perhaps, in terms of hours, days, months - something that we ould actually study more closely and maybe who knows maybe we can even put some of these new elements with novel properties to use.<br /> <br /> Umm, first of all, who gets to name a new element that is found. <br /> <br /> The discoverers or the creators. <br /> <br /> You have to create it, no matter how fleetingly it is in existence you get to name it if you make it and you prove that you made it in a laboratory.<br /> <br /> If you create it and it's verified independently by other people, then you can name it - its your baby.<br /> <br /> Bear in mind only 4 atoms of this element have been known to exist. That's it. But that's enough apparently.<br /> <br /> And what's the purpose of creating these elements if they just exist for a blip. Why do we care?<br /> <br /> Yeah, that's a good question Jay. It might seem like it's a little indulgent for them to just create these things and 'oh there it is and it's gone' and what can you do with these things - they are so fleeting. Scientists can actually learn a lot about nuclear power plants and atomic bombs and how they function by studying this so we can learn a lot by this type of stuff. <br /> <br /> S: Yeah we are not going to be building stuff out of element 112 any time soon but it is a way of exploring particle physics essentially.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=Template:5X5_episode_list&diff=8464 2013-11-08T17:02:02Z

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MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_79&diff=8462 2013-11-08T16:57:57Z

<p>MrDuck: Marked for proof reading</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 79<br /> |Contents = The Lunar Effect<br /> |episodeDate = 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; October 2009 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-10-14.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,23448<br /> |}}<br /> == The Lunar Effect ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and we're talking about lunar madness or the lunar effect. Does the full moon affect human behaviour. There is a persistant urban legend that it does. That crimes increase, that ER visits are increased, and that suicides are increased that generally a host of human behaviours are affected by the lunar cycle. However, it turns out that when these statistics are carefully examined pretty much with every specific claim there is no detectable and replicable statistical effect. It turns out that the lunar cycle doesn't really have any significant effect on human behaviour. Now, the justification that is typically given for the lunar effect is that the moon can affect the tides, the moon does affect the tides of the earth because of the differential gravitational pull on the various parts of the earth and that it could have a similar tidal effect therefore on the human brain which is floating in spinal fluid. However, that argument really has no plausibility because the tidal effects depend on the difference in the distance from the object. The diameter of the earth is almost 8,000 miles at the equator - so that's from one side of the earth to the other - so that's a significantly difference in terms of the distance to the moon. But the distance from one side of your head to the other we are only talking about a matter of inches so there is no significant tidal effect on your brain from the moon. Some have held out that there is still an effect because of the different light from the moon - that has some plausibility - on a full moon you have a well lit night and people might be more likely to go out and do stuff. Or on other times of the month there would be less light but if there is a significant effect from that no-one has been able to detect it. <br /> <br /> And for as long as there has been cultures and civilisations there has been the moon involved with the development of those cultures and just about everything they do. Everything from what they plant, where they fish, how they harvest and how they hunt, predictions and things that they make. But as we have come over the centuries and millennia to understand the moon in a more scientific context and have a better grasp of that knowledge at the same time we still to still cling to a lot of the superstition and otherwise pseudo-science that is associated with the moon having certain effects over different aspects of our lives. Certainly more pychscoliogical than practical or physical.<br /> <br /> The full moon has spawned many myths and legends in folklore in many cultures. One that persists to this day is that the full moon can drive people insane. The word lunacy is one obvious result. Now this superstitious belief has collided and merged with others such as Canterbury or werewolves which go as far back as ancient greek mythology which describes lycan who changes into a wolf after eating human flesh. Modern myths and cinema describe werewolves as ordinary men most of the time until the light of the full moon magically forces their often painful transformation into werewolves.<br /> <br /> R: Actually, a new study was just published very recently saying that the full moon does not have any effect on surgery outcomes. It was quite a large study that's been published in the october issue of the journal Anaesthesiology and researchers looked at more than 18,000 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery between 1993 and 2006 and they found that the phase of the moon did not affect mortality rates or anything like that. So, apparently you don't have to worry about the phase of the moon when you go in for surgery.<br /> <br /> So Steve, to further what you were saying a lot of people think that since the moon has such a dramatic effect on the tides that it must also have a dramatic effect on the human body. A lot of people think the human body is made out of a high percentage of water so that same liquid would be moved by the moon in some manner that would affect us. But the lunar force is actually considered to be very weak tidal force so as an example a mother holding her child is 12 million more times more tidal force on her child than the moon would.<br /> <br /> Wow. Yeah that really puts it into perspective. It's one of those so-called back on the envelope calculations where you're throwing out possible explanations like tidal forces but if you just try to figure out the order of magnitude is you realise that it's not happening - its not going to have any affect physiologically. The other thing that always struck me is that tidal forces aren't really that closely linked to the lunar phases - right. I mean when there is a so-called new moon, the moon and the sun are in the same direction so there is no light reflected from the moon back to the earth. The moon is still there exerting a tidal effect so the only real connection between the phases of the moon and the tides are how the solar and lunar tides line up. Not really the magnitude of the lunar component of the tides themselves. <br /> <br /> Maximum tides would be like you say at the new moon when we can't even see the moon but we are lined up sun, moon, earth. So there should be myths about the effects of the new moon on human behaviours but there isn't. Only the full moon. Which suggests that its has nothing to do with gravity or tides and in fact cultural, physiological and persistent legend that is probably not going away any time soon.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_79&diff=8461 2013-11-08T16:57:29Z

<p>MrDuck: /* The Lunar Effect */ - first draft</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 79<br /> |Contents = The Lunar Effect<br /> |episodeDate = 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; October 2009 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-10-14.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,23448<br /> |}}<br /> == The Lunar Effect ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5 and we're talking about lunar madness or the lunar effect. Does the full moon affect human behaviour. There is a persistant urban legend that it does. That crimes increase, that ER visits are increased, and that suicides are increased that generally a host of human behaviours are affected by the lunar cycle. However, it turns out that when these statistics are carefully examined pretty much with every specific claim there is no detectable and replicable statistical effect. It turns out that the lunar cycle doesn't really have any significant effect on human behaviour. Now, the justification that is typically given for the lunar effect is that the moon can affect the tides, the moon does affect the tides of the earth because of the differential gravitational pull on the various parts of the earth and that it could have a similar tidal effect therefore on the human brain which is floating in spinal fluid. However, that argument really has no plausibility because the tidal effects depend on the difference in the distance from the object. The diameter of the earth is almost 8,000 miles at the equator - so that's from one side of the earth to the other - so that's a significantly difference in terms of the distance to the moon. But the distance from one side of your head to the other we are only talking about a matter of inches so there is no significant tidal effect on your brain from the moon. Some have held out that there is still an effect because of the different light from the moon - that has some plausibility - on a full moon you have a well lit night and people might be more likely to go out and do stuff. Or on other times of the month there would be less light but if there is a significant effect from that no-one has been able to detect it. <br /> <br /> And for as long as there has been cultures and civilisations there has been the moon involved with the development of those cultures and just about everything they do. Everything from what they plant, where they fish, how they harvest and how they hunt, predictions and things that they make. But as we have come over the centuries and millennia to understand the moon in a more scientific context and have a better grasp of that knowledge at the same time we still to still cling to a lot of the superstition and otherwise pseudo-science that is associated with the moon having certain effects over different aspects of our lives. Certainly more pychscoliogical than practical or physical.<br /> <br /> The full moon has spawned many myths and legends in folklore in many cultures. One that persists to this day is that the full moon can drive people insane. The word lunacy is one obvious result. Now this superstitious belief has collided and merged with others such as Canterbury or werewolves which go as far back as ancient greek mythology which describes lycan who changes into a wolf after eating human flesh. Modern myths and cinema describe werewolves as ordinary men most of the time until the light of the full moon magically forces their often painful transformation into werewolves.<br /> <br /> R: Actually, a new study was just published very recently saying that the full moon does not have any effect on surgery outcomes. It was quite a large study that's been published in the october issue of the journal Anaesthesiology and researchers looked at more than 18,000 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery between 1993 and 2006 and they found that the phase of the moon did not affect mortality rates or anything like that. So, apparently you don't have to worry about the phase of the moon when you go in for surgery.<br /> <br /> So Steve, to further what you were saying a lot of people think that since the moon has such a dramatic effect on the tides that it must also have a dramatic effect on the human body. A lot of people think the human body is made out of a high percentage of water so that same liquid would be moved by the moon in some manner that would affect us. But the lunar force is actually considered to be very weak tidal force so as an example a mother holding her child is 12 million more times more tidal force on her child than the moon would.<br /> <br /> Wow. Yeah that really puts it into perspective. It's one of those so-called back on the envelope calculations where you're throwing out possible explanations like tidal forces but if you just try to figure out the order of magnitude is you realise that it's not happening - its not going to have any affect physiologically. The other thing that always struck me is that tidal forces aren't really that closely linked to the lunar phases - right. I mean when there is a so-called new moon, the moon and the sun are in the same direction so there is no light reflected from the moon back to the earth. The moon is still there exerting a tidal effect so the only real connection between the phases of the moon and the tides are how the solar and lunar tides line up. Not really the magnitude of the lunar component of the tides themselves. <br /> <br /> Maximum tides would be like you say at the new moon when we can't even see the moon but we are lined up sun, moon, earth. So there should be myths about the effects of the new moon on human behaviours but there isn't. Only the full moon. Which suggests that its has nothing to do with gravity or tides and in fact cultural, physiological and persistent legend that is probably not going away any time soon.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=Template:5X5_episode_list&diff=8460 2013-11-08T16:07:34Z

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<p>MrDuck: Removed &#039;transcription&#039; tag</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y <br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 82<br /> |Contents = Psychic Surgery<br /> |episodeDate = 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; December 2009 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-12-02.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,24566<br /> |}}<br /> == Psychic Surgery ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: Psychic surgery is a process that is popular in the Philippines and Brazil - mainly. And it is the process of appearing to do surgery without making an incision or cutting open the body in any way. It was first described in the 1950s by a reporter Ron Ormond who termed it fourth dimensional operations what later became known as psychic surgery.<br /> <br /> Some of the tricks of the trade of psychic surgeons include using a plastic thumb that they wear so that they can hide fake blood and even bits of animal tissue inside. Sometimes you might see them needing the patient's stomach which kind of makes it easier for them to pull of the thumb to release its contents. They also use many other standard magician tricks like palming and sleight of hand and they can also famously pretend to stick their fingers inside the person, 4th dimensionly I guess, by simply just bending the fingers as they go down.<br /> <br /> R: And of course psychic surgery has been continually debunked again and again usually by magicians including Penn and Teller and of course James Randi who performed it on the Johnny Carson show I believe and then explained exactly how it worked and still people fall for it.<br /> <br /> They sure do, and one of the more popular psychic surgeons these days that at least I've seen on YouTube and elsewhere is a fella by the the name of Stephen Turoff who runs the Danbury Healing clinic in Chelmsford England and if you do any searching for this fella you can take a look for his website or you can go to YouTube and look up 'conning the conmen' in which some skeptics go and investigate him and basically reveal him for what he is - a huxster - a fraud.<br /> <br /> Did you guys also know that there's psychic dentistry and this is also done by faith healers and basically people get this who prefer dentistry without the benefits of anesthesia or dental drills. And these people who practise this can basically fill cavities just by touching your teeth (they fill them with air?). No, they fix them. <br /> <br /> S: This is one of those 'alternative healing modalities' where there can't be much in the way of self deception going on here you have to be doing conscious fraud - palming chicken livers or animal parts pretending to stick your hands in somebody's belly and them pull out whatever badness was causing their symptoms. And then you take their money and send them home to die if they had a fatal illness. It really is among the more clearly deliberate fraud as well as just plain cruel.<br /> <br /> R: Yeah, fans of Andy Kaufman may know that when he got cancer, he was very desperate and went to a faith healer and obviously it didn't really help him.<br /> <br /> S: In the movie I was really pleased to see that they actually show Andy Kaufman getting the 'psychic surgery' and he notices that the healer had the chicken parts palmed in his hand and he realizes that the joke was on him and the next scene was him in his coffin yeah. They showed that for what it was.<br /> <br /> Another celebrity who fell victim to the fraud was Peter Sellers whom Randy told stories of having met just a few months before he actually died and talked about his experience with the psychic surgeon and there wasn't much Randy could do or say at that point. Peter Sellers was very convinced that they were performing something real and sure enough a few months later he was gone.<br /> <br /> Sadly we see a lot of people opt for psychic surgery as a last ditch effort because all other modern medicine had failed at that point to be able to cure it and the sad fact is that modern medicine can't cure everything and a lot of people turn to this as a last ditch effort to get some help.<br /> <br /> But it's especially tragic though Jay when people forego conventional methods that could have helped them and do this and it has happened where they go and of course the psychic surgery doesn't work and because they missed that opportunity of using conventional medicine they die. So it's even more tragic in those cases. <br /> <br /> S: Yes, its not just exploiting the desperate it's actually killing people because you're depriving them of modern medical care with the fraud and interestingly even though psychic surgery has been thoroughly shown to be nothing but sleight of hand - an absolute fraud - the proponents still find some way to claim that it is legitimate. So now some are calling it 'placebo surgery' and that there is a measurable beneficial placebo effect from getting psychic surgery done and that that is enough to justify the operation which is actually it's first of all completely absurd. It turns the whole notion of medical ethics on its head but that's becoming an increasing argument within the world of so-called alternative medecine just say 'yeah sure its a placebo and that's enough to justify what we are doing'.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_82&diff=8458 2013-11-08T15:42:02Z

<p>MrDuck: First draft</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 82<br /> |Contents = Psychic Surgery<br /> |episodeDate = 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; December 2009 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52009-12-02.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,24566<br /> |}}<br /> == Psychic Surgery ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: Psychic surgery is a process that is popular in the Philippines and Brazil - mainly. And it is the process of appearing to do surgery without making an incision or cutting open the body in any way. It was first described in the 1950s by a reporter Ron Ormond who termed it fourth dimensional operations what later became known as psychic surgery.<br /> <br /> Some of the tricks of the trade of psychic surgeons include using a plastic thumb that they wear so that they can hide fake blood and even bits of animal tissue inside. Sometimes you might see them needing the patient's stomach which kind of makes it easier for them to pull of the thumb to release its contents. They also use many other standard magician tricks like palming and sleight of hand and they can also famously pretend to stick their fingers inside the person, 4th dimensionly I guess, by simply just bending the fingers as they go down.<br /> <br /> R: And of course psychic surgery has been continually debunked again and again usually by magicians including Penn and Teller and of course James Randi who performed it on the Johnny Carson show I believe and then explained exactly how it worked and still people fall for it.<br /> <br /> They sure do, and one of the more popular psychic surgeons these days that at least I've seen on YouTube and elsewhere is a fella by the the name of Stephen Turoff who runs the Danbury Healing clinic in Chelmsford England and if you do any searching for this fella you can take a look for his website or you can go to YouTube and look up 'conning the conmen' in which some skeptics go and investigate him and basically reveal him for what he is - a huxster - a fraud.<br /> <br /> Did you guys also know that there's psychic dentistry and this is also done by faith healers and basically people get this who prefer dentistry without the benefits of anesthesia or dental drills. And these people who practise this can basically fill cavities just by touching your teeth (they fill them with air?). No, they fix them. <br /> <br /> S: This is one of those 'alternative healing modalities' where there can't be much in the way of self deception going on here you have to be doing conscious fraud - palming chicken livers or animal parts pretending to stick your hands in somebody's belly and them pull out whatever badness was causing their symptoms. And then you take their money and send them home to die if they had a fatal illness. It really is among the more clearly deliberate fraud as well as just plain cruel.<br /> <br /> R: Yeah, fans of Andy Kaufman may know that when he got cancer, he was very desperate and went to a faith healer and obviously it didn't really help him.<br /> <br /> S: In the movie I was really pleased to see that they actually show Andy Kaufman getting the 'psychic surgery' and he notices that the healer had the chicken parts palmed in his hand and he realizes that the joke was on him and the next scene was him in his coffin yeah. They showed that for what it was.<br /> <br /> Another celebrity who fell victim to the fraud was Peter Sellers whom Randy told stories of having met just a few months before he actually died and talked about his experience with the psychic surgeon and there wasn't much Randy could do or say at that point. Peter Sellers was very convinced that they were performing something real and sure enough a few months later he was gone.<br /> <br /> Sadly we see a lot of people opt for psychic surgery as a last ditch effort because all other modern medicine had failed at that point to be able to cure it and the sad fact is that modern medicine can't cure everything and a lot of people turn to this as a last ditch effort to get some help.<br /> <br /> But it's especially tragic though Jay when people forego conventional methods that could have helped them and do this and it has happened where they go and of course the psychic surgery doesn't work and because they missed that opportunity of using conventional medicine they die. So it's even more tragic in those cases. <br /> <br /> S: Yes, its not just exploiting the desperate it's actually killing people because you're depriving them of modern medical care with the fraud and interestingly even though psychic surgery has been thoroughly shown to be nothing but sleight of hand - an absolute fraud - the proponents still find some way to claim that it is legitimate. So now some are calling it 'placebo surgery' and that there is a measurable beneficial placebo effect from getting psychic surgery done and that that is enough to justify the operation which is actually it's first of all completely absurd. It turns the whole notion of medical ethics on its head but that's becoming an increasing argument within the world of so-called alternative medecine just say 'yeah sure its a placebo and that's enough to justify what we are doing'.<br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_89&diff=8457 2013-11-08T13:04:08Z

<p>MrDuck: </p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |proof-reading = y<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 89<br /> |Contents = Chemtrails<br /> |episodeDate = 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; June 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-06-14.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,28872<br /> |}}<br /> == Chemtrails ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5. Mike is sitting in for Rebecca this week and we are talking about chemtrails. Have you ever noticed the clouds left behind jets criss-crossing the sky? These are so-called contrails or exhaust fumes and some people believe that they are actually part of an elaborate conspiracy to spread some kind of chemical or biological agent to the population.<br /> <br /> Yes this conspiracy theory began to circulate around 1996. The United States Air Force was accused of spraying the population with mysterious substances from aircraft and these accusations were fuelled in part by the citation of a paper that was released that year by the Air Forces' Air University and the paper was titled ‘Weather as a force multiplier - owning the weather by 2025’. This paper was presented in response to a military directive to outline future strategic weather modifications. So, some folks ran with that as a conspiracy theory and one fella in particular by the name of William Thomas who was the first reported to attract some national attention regarding chemtrails and he has been interviewed many times on the Art Bell radio show and he has written articles on the subject and has a web site devoted to it and he was the first and is the leading purveyor of the conspiracy theory concerning chemtrails.<br /> <br /> So, what specifically are contrails and chemtrails then. Contrails is short for condensation trails. These are created from water vapour that are emitted from modern day piston and jet engines at high altitude. This hot vapour can hold a lot of water because its hot by its very nature - hot air can hold a lot of water. It quickly however mixes with the cold air that is around the plane at high altitude which cools the vapour which cannot hold as much water so the water condenses out either into droplets of water or ice crystals forming essentially a visible cloud. We have all blown our warm breath onto a relatively cool pane of glass. What happens? Our breath is cooled forcing out some of the water droplets which fogs up the glass - this is essentially what we are talking about. Contrails are highly variable depending on a multitude of variables such as altitude, air temperature, saturation levels and many, many more. The word chemtrails is short for chemical trails. They are allegedly trails of chemicals or biological agents left in the sky for a host of possible reasons. They supposedly look like contrails initially but are said to be thicker and deposited in parallel lines, egg shapes, tick-tack-toe shapes etc. They are also said to expand and coalesce often lasting for an unusually long time.<br /> <br /> Chemtrails are thought to be caused for a lot of different reasons and some people even believe that there is more that one reason why they exist. But here are some of the more popular ones that I could find - there is weather modification, population control, an inoculation programs for biowarfare attack, geo-engineering, space weaponary, something to do with the new world order meaning that these people will be controlling the citizens of the United States or the world and a reduction of global warming. <br /> <br /> M: All these examples that you mention here are an example of the ‘incorrect cause’ logical fallacy. The incorrect cause fallacy is pretty self descriptive. It is when some assumes causal relationship between two observations where none exists. Incorrect cause also has many sub-categories - one popular example is the 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc' fallacy where one assumes that because an event happened before another that is caused the other. In the case of chemtrails some people are assuming the conspiracy Jay mentioned when all they are are contrails - like Bob explained.<br /> <br /> S: Yes, so what the chemtrail conspiracy theorists are essentially doing is a bit of anomaly hunting. They are looking at the contrails in the sky and they're observing what they think to be anomalous features like them occurring in parallel or grid patterns or they're persisting longer than they think they should for whatever reason. But these features are not in any way directly tied to contrails being something other than what the standard explanation for them is. It's certainly not a feature that's known to be linked to chemical or biological warfare. So, essentially they're assuming that the details that they are seeing means something that they don't. In their minds that then becomes a feature of chemtrails but essentially they just looked at the anomaly, they made a false connection, and then they used a bit of circular reasoning to justify their conclusion. And of course, once they get inside the conspiracy theory there is no way to logically get them out of it because they see everything as evidence for the conspiracy they know is there and no lack of evidence for the conspiracy they believe to exist or any evidence against it would be sufficient to get them out of it. If you believe that there is one world order that is willing to spray the skies with deadly chemicals to kill off large portions of the population and control those who are left - you are going to think that there is nothing that these people cannot do. And yet amazingly these conspiracy theorists also believe that they can see through the conspiracy - that somehow despite the awesome power of the Illuminati or whoever is spraying these chemtrails - they alone can see through it all and can see the chemtrails for what they are. And, even some of them believe they have the power to undo it. You know, one site called 'Educate yourself' advises people to setup these 'Orgone generators' to undo the effects of the chemtrails. This bit of pseudo-science that they think somehow will mitigate the effects. So, I am not sure they reconcile in their mind the notion of an all-powerful world shadow government that they can so easily foil and see through.<br /> <br /> From the skeptical angle, its very unreasonable for them to believe in chemtrails for the sheer numbers of people that would have to be involved and to the magnitude of the secret that is being kept by that number of people is implausible. <br /> <br /> S: Right, it becomes a grand conspiracy that collapses under its own weight.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=5X5_Episode_89&diff=8456 2013-11-08T13:02:54Z

<p>MrDuck: /* Chemtrails */</p> <hr /> <div>{{5X5 editing required &lt;!-- for an explanation, see [[Template:5X5_editing_required]] --&gt;<br /> |transcription = y &lt;!-- remove line when transcription complete --&gt;<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please only include when some transcription is present. --&gt;<br /> |formatting = y<br /> |links = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |redirect = y &lt;!-- categorized redirect page with head-line type title --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{Template:5X5 infobox<br /> |episodeNum = 89<br /> |Contents = Chemtrails<br /> |episodeDate = 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; June 2010 &lt;!-- broadcast date --&gt;<br /> |rebecca = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |bob = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |jay = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |evan = y &lt;!-- if absent, delete --&gt;<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/sgu5x5/SGU5x52010-06-14.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,28872<br /> |}}<br /> == Chemtrails ==<br /> {{5x5intro}}<br /> <br /> S: This is the SGU 5x5. Mike is sitting in for Rebecca this week and we are talking about chemtrails. Have you ever noticed the clouds left behind jets criss-crossing the sky? These are so-called contrails or exhaust fumes and some people believe that they are actually part of an elaborate conspiracy to spread some kind of chemical or biological agent to the population.<br /> <br /> Yes this conspiracy theory began to circulate around 1996. The United States Air Force was accused of spraying the population with mysterious substances from aircraft and these accusations were fuelled in part by the citation of a paper that was released that year by the Air Forces' Air University and the paper was titled ‘Weather as a force multiplier - owning the weather by 2025’. This paper was presented in response to a military directive to outline future strategic weather modifications. So, some folks ran with that as a conspiracy theory and one fella in particular by the name of William Thomas who was the first reported to attract some national attention regarding chemtrails and he has been interviewed many times on the Art Bell radio show and he has written articles on the subject and has a web site devoted to it and he was the first and is the leading purveyor of the conspiracy theory concerning chemtrails.<br /> <br /> So, what specifically are contrails and chemtrails then. Contrails is short for condensation trails. These are created from water vapour that are emitted from modern day piston and jet engines at high altitude. This hot vapour can hold a lot of water because its hot by its very nature - hot air can hold a lot of water. It quickly however mixes with the cold air that is around the plane at high altitude which cools the vapour which cannot hold as much water so the water condenses out either into droplets of water or ice crystals forming essentially a visible cloud. We have all blown our warm breath onto a relatively cool pane of glass. What happens? Our breath is cooled forcing out some of the water droplets which fogs up the glass - this is essentially what we are talking about. Contrails are highly variable depending on a multitude of variables such as altitude, air temperature, saturation levels and many, many more. The word chemtrails is short for chemical trails. They are allegedly trails of chemicals or biological agents left in the sky for a host of possible reasons. They supposedly look like contrails initially but are said to be thicker and deposited in parallel lines, egg shapes, tick-tack-toe shapes etc. They are also said to expand and coalesce often lasting for an unusually long time.<br /> <br /> Chemtrails are thought to be caused for a lot of different reasons and some people even believe that there is more that one reason why they exist. But here are some of the more popular ones that I could find - there is weather modification, population control, an inoculation programs for biowarfare attack, geo-engineering, space weaponary, something to do with the new world order meaning that these people will be controlling the citizens of the United States or the world and a reduction of global warming. <br /> <br /> M: All these examples that you mention here are an example of the ‘incorrect cause’ logical fallacy. The incorrect cause fallacy is pretty self descriptive. It is when some assumes causal relationship between two observations where none exists. Incorrect cause also has many sub-categories - one popular example is the 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc' fallacy where one assumes that because an event happened before another that is caused the other. In the case of chemtrails some people are assuming the conspiracy Jay mentioned when all they are are contrails - like Bob explained.<br /> <br /> S: Yes, so what the chemtrail conspiracy theorists are essentially doing is a bit of anomaly hunting. They are looking at the contrails in the sky and they're observing what they think to be anomalous features like them occurring in parallel or grid patterns or they're persisting longer than they think they should for whatever reason. But these features are not in any way directly tied to contrails being something other than what the standard explanation for them is. It's certainly not a feature that's known to be linked to chemical or biological warfare. So, essentially they're assuming that the details that they are seeing means something that they don't. In their minds that then becomes a feature of chemtrails but essentially they just looked at the anomaly, they made a false connection, and then they used a bit of circular reasoning to justify their conclusion. And of course, once they get inside the conspiracy theory there is no way to logically get them out of it because they see everything as evidence for the conspiracy they know is there and no lack of evidence for the conspiracy they believe to exist or any evidence against it would be sufficient to get them out of it. If you believe that there is one world order that is willing to spray the skies with deadly chemicals to kill off large portions of the population and control those who are left - you are going to think that there is nothing that these people cannot do. And yet amazingly these conspiracy theorists also believe that they can see through the conspiracy - that somehow despite the awesome power of the Illuminati or whoever is spraying these chemtrails - they alone can see through it all and can see the chemtrails for what they are. And, even some of them believe they have the power to undo it. You know, one site called 'Educate yourself' advises people to setup these 'Orgone generators' to undo the effects of the chemtrails. This bit of pseudo-science that they think somehow will mitigate the effects. So, I am not sure they reconcile in their mind the notion of an all-powerful world shadow government that they can so easily foil and see through.<br /> <br /> From the skeptical angle, its very unreasonable for them to believe in chemtrails for the sheer numbers of people that would have to be involved and to the magnitude of the secret that is being kept by that number of people is implausible. <br /> <br /> S: Right, it becomes a grand conspiracy that collapses under its own weight.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{5x5outro}}<br /> <br /> {{5X5 Navigation}}</div>

MrDuck https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=SGU_Episode_407&diff=8450 2013-11-06T20:09:46Z

<p>MrDuck: /* Einstein Still Correct (26:46) */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Google speech}}<br /> {{Editing required<br /> |transcription = y<br /> |formatting = y<br /> &lt;!-- |proof-reading = y please remove commenting mark-up when some transcription is present --&gt;<br /> |links = y<br /> |Today I Learned list = y<br /> |categories = y<br /> |segment redirects = y &lt;!-- redirect pages for segments with head-line type titles --&gt;<br /> |}}<br /> {{InfoBox <br /> |episodeNum = 407<br /> |episodeDate = 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; May 2013<br /> |episodeIcon = File:Oblivion.jpg<br /> |rebecca = y<br /> |bob = y<br /> |jay = y<br /> |evan = y<br /> |guest1 = SS: {{w|Seth Shostak}}<br /> |downloadLink = http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2013-05-04.mp3<br /> |forumLink = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,45907.0.html<br /> |qowText = Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.<br /> |qowAuthor = {{w|William Butler Yeats}}<br /> |}}<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> ''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''<br /> <br /> S: Hello and welcome to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. Today is Tuesday, April 30th 2013 and this is your host Steven Novella. Joining me this week are Bob Novella.<br /> <br /> B: Hey everybody.<br /> <br /> S: Rebecca Watson.<br /> <br /> R: Hello Everyone.<br /> <br /> S: Jay Novella<br /> <br /> J: Hey Guys<br /> <br /> S: And Evan Bernstein.<br /> <br /> E: Are we still an effective team?<br /> <br /> (laughter)<br /> <br /> S: We are still an effective team.<br /> <br /> B: Not in the slightest.<br /> <br /> == This Day in Skepticism &lt;small&gt;(00:33)&lt;/small&gt; ==<br /> * May 4th, 2005: SGU records its first episode<br /> <br /> R: Happy anniversary everybody.<br /> <br /> S: That's right.<br /> <br /> B: Oh my god.<br /> <br /> S: The show goes out on May 4th which is exactly our 8 year anniversary.<br /> <br /> R: May the fourth be with you.<br /> <br /> B: Eight years!<br /> <br /> R: It seems like every week we have some arbitrary anniversary to celebrate.<br /> <br /> S: Milestone yea.<br /> <br /> E: This one's a little less than arbitrary.<br /> <br /> S: Eight freakin years that's a long time.<br /> <br /> E: That's a long slice of life, yeah.<br /> <br /> J: So how many episodes?<br /> <br /> S: This is 407<br /> <br /> B: Wow.<br /> <br /> J: Hey you know how we read a lot of news items on the show and we're like and they said five years are going to get this, we could have actually followed up on some of those 5 year things.<br /> <br /> R: that's right<br /> <br /> E: Do you guys remember this is right before recorded episode 1 it didn't make it onto the show but there was talk about the alpha constant which might not be constant Bob do you remember that specificat reacts to 6921 Dr Michael Murphy if karen was speaking at the physics 2005 just said that the fine structure constant 26 might not be constant after all he was comparing gas cloud fingerprints with those teams on Earth and space in the day has changed by about 1 part 2013 the last 10 billion years show doesn't sound like a lot it's hard to put that in some sort of perspective saying is we may not it may not be constantly need more research to find out if in fact it is said its a tumor research there has been a research done and done more research other signs so done work 8 years later they're still in the same place where they started it is not widely accepted that there's any variation on in the in the constant news items as well does a few that I remember tonight. Time that I wanted to follow up on you guys remember the T Rex proteins oh yeah it was Haiti's scientist found some t-rex proteins and it was 68 million euro proteins me direction was cool and then they were burned protein so it to get dinosaurs related to personal sounded good well after that I started reading and Stephen Salter contact Mexican of the first person to say hey to rest of the community is not accepting this so there is a lot of push back a lot of push back against the original sin to see me just clean it with those said its a contaminant others who were saying it stay didn't do good statistical analysis is just a fluke and the data really didn't prove it real um send a clear Vista released original date of the years the resurgence reviews for a while then they related to now at eight years later where is oldest and it seems like actually did the original sin cos to do claim to find the protein of doing a lot of follow-up research have answered a lot of the critics and they are putting together a much more compelling story Really that they have actually 65 plus you equals year old dinosaur pregnancy did I had wrists or different special man show date the used stereo equipment in really try to control the contamination she stated to statistical analysis 200 saw the ghost criticisms but it seems like the rest of the community is still isn't accepting it they're saying essentially that and the state is coming out of 1 research team really needs to be independently replicated and they still haven't addressed the contamination issue maybe the contamination is coming very quickly 50's does laid on the ground for a long time and we can't be sure the proteins that there are you sleeping or actually soft tissue from the creatures that left those bones behind as opposed to to some other stores in nice story about Giants process assigned to one of those stories where they made a claim he got picked apart route to sleep by the rest of the scientific community in the Navy how to do more and more rigorous message to address all the criticism is it really is a nice story I just assumed they would just like crying wind by being oppressed and supposed to do those lighted sign to clean this conspiracy against and try to get it on schools anyway Tracy ca. to the concert dinosaur protein controversy other mothers news items from 2005 10 planets or eight in radio controversy over whether or not the new copper Belt objects should be named the 10th planet or should Pluto get demoted and not be considered a gun happy how about this one the first human to have to control a robotic arm with a computer chip when was that 2005 that is awesome article today Teresa some person today that um they were controlling it a robotic arm and it moves like a human arm and it had the same type of a text not your fingers but definitely the other joint add one more at the time the smallest rocky EXO planet was 7.5 times the size of my god can you remember that shoot the days back in the day where are we now with the closest to Earth side of multiple world that are the same size of the earth yeah we're stronger even a little smaller than a telescoping people waiting to us fish Alex I like this because this is where are they now at the said since 2021 Saved by the Bell alright TV show is the article from July 2005 single atom pick materials almost ready for primetime Find the talking about graphing a banana to Raffi's the researchers noted the sum of the application probably decades away but they expected to see ultra-fast transistors micromechanical devices innocence is based on one atom to crystals ready in a few years time fast forward a few years time and just a month ago here's the here's a headline for a month ago flash memory chip building built out of single atom pick components hang out app they put them together with traditional components and made a flash memory drive it still a few layers tickets not single layer but and Body Works absolutely works Dave put stuff on there a race did many times to see how it'll how it holds up everything and so there it is you know of Science in action and it's actually coming to fruition pretty much exactly they said it would be cool n***** happy Anniversary here's to another eight years very rare very scary at least 18 years I'm good good for a while and I got s*** to do yeah career does my cycle Oregon my hair did the Frank my hard drive on your Steve we're going to change a few things<br /> <br /> == News Items ==<br /> === Funding Science &lt;small&gt;(08:24)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * ''Science'': [http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteri-1.html U.S. Lawmaker Proposes New Criteria for Choosing NSF Grants]<br /> <br /> Okay. Well let's go on to a few news items. Rebecca, you're going to tell us about politics and funding scientific research yes background church because now there's a stranger in the US who are in the US add a me not the stuff so NFS is the National Science Foundation and they are responsible for something along the lines of 20 percent of all federally funded science is is funded by then they have a budget of around seven and a half billion show how to decide which research gets funded the Trinity that's true AP review process and what does winter looking for is research that is in the public interest and also important to scientists hole so it could be very basic science could be applicable science and the thief and a broad range of things to do with the missus looking for is how this research contributes to the scientific understanding as a whole well there's the bill right now on the trash in trash sponsored by Lamar Smith to is out kind of well-known recently as the sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act super which was shut down last year um which wood is had some say catastrophic a fax on how easy Internet Lamar Smith is now the head of the house Science Committee and she's still would replace the pier in process that add to Germans when an assassin's Andrews place that process with a political Sheeran basically um to politicians with the people who would determine where all this money is going and in particular with they would be looking for I'll be to you from the actual del look for research proposal start in the interest of the United States to advance to national health prosperity or welfare and secure the National Defence to science the finest quality is groundbreaking and answers questions or solve problems after this Friday at large and not too productive other research project being funded by the foundation or other federal signs agencies show there a lot of problems that any difference question may seem like a lizard good positive things to work towards but a person for most probably say you have college tuitions who are determining what the most important scientific research is that needs to be funded add to that is of itself your mediately okay up the science spending two to politics so for instance if the Mar had a problem with shaved global warming research she could possibly turkey to the funding for it open the door for any politician to to destroy any research that the politically don't care don't pay per exactly lol free because of the CVS okasan things like national defense fake ad there's a ton of good science it's being done this at a very foundation a level it in other words it's not the result of the science are not sure the groundbreaking they're not going to create jobs immediately or create weapons as dirt but they're very important to understanding to the body of knowledge and distilled would automatically preclude research like that from being funded show you know it anything if this doesn't work for you then just picture Sarah Palin on the campaign trail complaining about wasted research money on fruit flies I need anything about science news health research fruit flies can beach um and how common it is send message in a politician likes your parents or like this guys like on the marsh miss you have no scientific background no signs of training send leaving the people who decide where this seven and a half billion dollars is going its frankly it's terrifying and irritated yesterday yeah it doesn't get it today created for the trip you any basic science research Plaza there that says that you're not going to do any research that duplicates of the research but that's replication baby what's wrong with the kids to know replication this is a maximally naive interference and 80 a process of deciding which valuable to research this happens actually quite frequently at lyrics funders say that will be one or money to go towards sushi what they say is translational research research that will have a specific usual outcome show in medicine for example you have grassroots organizations that raise money to cure disease a call we want the research to a go to do studies which can potentially cure this disease or improve the item for patience and they're putting a message from on the scale that has a very detrimental effect they mean well I understand weather hurt is but the problem is that you can't know how to balance basic science translational and clinical or Apple store application research unless you're in the field that balance is off is it takes a lot of judgement only the experts in the field to really know where we are and when you shift that balance because you want to research it going to have some specific application you can actually slow down the progress in the field at your funding by taking away funds and researches resources in universities space it cetera away from the more basic research. Really need to be focusing records so this to be a complete disaster is it really nice to be nice maybe has been I don't know a lack of communication or something into director or any pants have to do with them have not explained things clearly enough to a Smith and his colleagues can you can I have a shot in in fact addiszefen more communication is ever existed in the what 16 year history of the NSF because for the first time ever represented Smith station Dennis after the speech at the letter and demanded to see the anonymous what what what supposed to be in on this review of a number of studies funded by an assessed at perhaps she did not feel should have been funded this request at know if there's ever made 5410 see I started with a strongly worded letter does claritin you can't even read all of it on em over add to a science is website news.sciencemag.org Alright thanks, Rebecca.<br /> <br /> === Curse Scam &lt;small&gt;(16:15)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * CBS New York: [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/23/con-artists-tormenting-chinese-immigrants-in-brooklyn-with-cash-or-curse-scam/ Con Artists Tormenting Chinese Immigrants In Brooklyn With Cash-Or-Curse Scam]<br /> <br /> Evan, You're going to tell us about the latest paranormal scam yeah this ones a hot is a celebrity sophisticated is other scams out there but it seems to be effective not coming to is courtesy of CBS New York I seem to con artist for targeting Chinese immigrants specifically in Brooklyn New York hey on your scam they will walk up to the target sometimes right now Street demand cash from now onwards jewels are something else of value and if they don't hand it over they will straighten them with an evil curse they will say things like oh you evil now before you or your family members will suffer and this is been dubbed the cash or curse scam so again you've got the Zelda Chinese people right there a very superstitious demographic and you know this it's basically a form of f****** that is being performed on and they have been known to give over their valuables their possessions the skin is not limited to Newark either days been reported across the country and in other countries around the world so this is taking route because of the fact is people are taking advantage of yeah it is easy to take advantage of the demographic and has a high rate of superstition does is this is a fuse con artists in general target the elderly because maybe they're not quite as savvy with the latest technology so you know computer scams against older people are very common or maybe they have a mild cognitive impairment to the accident taking advantage of a population has medical problems you know fieldstone are the population back potentially can have a lot of funny because they have to be completed over their license and it's not uncommon for for older addicting games 22 B swindled I did as you say another life savings is terrible yes and it seems to stem from something in the Paschal the Chinese blessings scam so I've read some articles about this from years past so it supposed to start carrying the street what the Connersville do with it will go into the shops in markets of these places on by bike Chinese people show the last for money shakedown if they refuse will say in okay well now your family is going to become ill what to do list is that in some cases the scammers will direct the victim to a relative or a doctor Cooper Fort Lee has the power to avert a certain desastre that's good because that's going to come to say something like alright if you want to get out of this bring a bag of valuables with you go see this person alright and I'll get it taken care of what to do the polls which route to take like jewels and stuff out of the bag and replace it with other things like that cause of rice water bottles in other things in the truck and don't open this until you get home wait for a week or two 7 to 10 days and then after that you'll find that no cursing before you and good spirits and Beyond will be with you by the time and I'll pay attention to the to these instructions to realize two weeks later been rocked the Chinese Blessing Scam is what that's called, so this is like a Very Asian of at two different than psychics who should I tell people that they are cursed they have some kind of evil threatening them and that they need to have the blessing done by the psychic who is president Falls thank you have some Christmas money bring me to stack of cash Laughlin to process ABC Street Dalton the money vanishing think about it obvious condo lease or where of it being poured all over the country hopefully awareness will bring about the best<br /> <br /> === ITER - Fusion Reactor &lt;small&gt;(20:26)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * The Independent: [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-13bn-iter-project-makes-breakthrough-in-the-quest-for-nuclear-fusion-a-solution-to-climate-change-and-an-age-of-clean-cheap-energy-8590480.html One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion]<br /> <br /> in India but they won't find out about the International clear experimental reactor really caught me by surprise I had never heard of this project for school TCH her project ITER I'm pretty sure to turn on Cedar and it's the international thermonuclear experimental reactor and or dinner in Latin mean the way and this Is a fusion research in ensuring project goes to demonstrate that it is possible to produce more energy from the fusion process that is used to initiate it courses I finish eating fruit in previous attempts if the project works what will end up with his and model of what the next generation would look like so this is actually going to be a reactor that supposed to be used to power homes Morgan just an experiment to proof of concept the project funded run by the European Union India Japan China Russia South Korea and United States with the European Union investing about 45 percent the money to do it under the current design with fully functional is supposed to produce 500 megabytes per 50 mega watch spent in order of magnitude of energy creation example 500 megabytes keep our about 300,000 average home David Guetta construction in 2007 and main question is why is this a big deal so I thought for such quickly define fusion fusion is when two hydrogen atoms are forming helium in neutron particles loss of Anarchy with the Adams armor Jincy in the form of heat fusion takes place in a measly high temperatures need to overcome the repulsive forces they keep Adams apart from each other neutron shoot off during diffusion process in their energies where he comes from sons core is about 15 million degrees Celsius in Ashford fusion is taking place fusion of course it's been a dream of Science in the beginning of the atomic age which is in 1945 and some people say the beginning of the atomic gauges set of the first bomb on Bruce sooner after the public became or more where it over the next two years about a million individual components of this highly complex usually actor will start to arrive in France in the south of France were three actors housed on these are being built around the world and this project in my opinion is epic for a lot of different reasons I'm first it's proving a huge triumph in countries working together in diplomacy and Science in Engineering it really is heading out a lot of friends here and I think it's awesome Carlson a hydrate who is the project deputy director responsible for safety said it is the largest scientific collaboration the world in fact a project so complex we even had to invent your own currency known as the inter unit of account to decide how much each country pays for Jerry got another one of those big clean off the right on I thought that the International Space Station was the biggest um global project but it did this in that I guess the two top when does the bigger I return yeah okay the great thing is diffusion reactors don't produce any co2 there is any please come out like burning fossil fuels really that would be fantastic to get away from my way to the way to have a meltdown the concern at all yeah you're right by Dr Ellis Hyundai said a female like accident is impossible at either because the fusion reaction is fundamentally safe any disturbance my deal conditions in the reaction will stop a runaway nuclear reaction in a quart meltdown are simply not possible I love reading that I'm thrilled that we are working on this project in that actually sounds phenomenal ISE for the opportunity street thanks for trying to find out where we are right now its not like we know it's going to work this is still experimental technology in there a problems that need to be some absolutely CVS like I said this is a proof-of-concept are going to be building this usually expensive to siilitie testing out the latest and greatest series that they have a meeting have a design building to expect they know what they're trying to achieve in the know exactly what the building or not anything at this point but we won't actually know until about the year 21 or 22 it in that's when the first upside my is scheduled on that's when the ice gases will be injected into into the mechanism and by 28 year 2728 it's going to go nuclear with injections of 50 to Trillium Trillium Grand and then bud 2030 the first demonstration of the fusion reactor to produce electricity and had that electricity be inserted into the grid will happen now keep this in mind they don't really think that's a first commercial nuclear fusion power plant in using new killer II don't know it does matter nuclear nuclear nuclear new year new clear clear clear new clear liquid in 2050 about their saying that if everything goes well that's when we would be able to start the first commercial nuclear fusion power but this has the potential of creating as you have energy without creating greenhouse gases Send to your meeting or chrome we need to release a part of it if it all works out right man 20470 Chinese yeah that would be nice to finish this may not be the technology I get to see if you should ever other designs out there people taking the one I am supposed to have a Mr fusion in two years has happened you like a fat<br /> <br /> === Einstein Still Correct &lt;small&gt;(26:46)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * CBS News: [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57581682/einsteins-gravity-theory-passes-toughest-test-yet/ Einstein's gravity theory passes toughest test yet]<br /> <br /> S: Bob, quickly tell us how Einstein is right yet again. <br /> <br /> B: Einstein's general relativity has been shown to be accurate for the bagillionth time. Scientists have verified that general relativity's predictions are accurate even when dealing with the most astronomical extreme cases namely the orbital characteristics of the biggest pulsars that they have ever found which is also being orbited by a white dwarf - so its a binary system. Now when I first read this I was almost like, big deal, except for quantum mechanics Albert Einstein pretty much was right on the ball about everything, right. His special and general theories of relativity have survived pretty much every assault thats been made on the them. Not pretty much - every last one and they have always emerged unscathed - so what is different about this? <br /> <br /> And this is interesting because this is a little bit different. First of all this was incredibly, the most extreme test of its kind for general relativity, its never been through the ringer like this one. The binary system that they studied was really incredible. This pulsar was, is amazing, its twice the mass of the Sun and yet its only 12 miles, 20 kilometres across. Imagine that taking the sun doubling its mass and then squeezing it down to 12 miles amazing. There is only one other pulsar that has ever been found that is even in this is this one's class in terms of size and density so its pretty special and then talking about gravitational pull this one surprised me: 300 billion times greater than the force that earth is pulling on your feet or your butt 300 we're feeling right now 300 billion times greater gravitational pull. So that means that each cubic centimetre sized mass on it weighs more than a billion tonnes that's a little bit bigger than a regular, normal six sided die. Its an amazing density. So you add to that the fact that this behemoth rotates on its axis 25 times a second and the white dwarf orbits around that every 2, 2 and a half hours or so. So when scientists discovered this thing they quickly released this binary system would be an amazing location to put Einstein under its toughest test yet and this test was all about gravitational waves which was pretty key. So you guys have heard about gravitational waves right?<br /> <br /> All: Yeah <br /> <br /> B: To get a handle on them you kinda need to know that general relativity explains gravity as mass warping the space-time fabric of the universe right everyone’s heard that almost a billion times. Once Einstein realizes that, it was really a small step for him to come to kinda realize that an object moving in this warped space-time would create ripples in this 4 dimensional fabric that would propagate outwards and that means that the energy contained in this binary system is being lost because of these gravitational waves that are radiating it away and this energy loss manifests itself as a decrease in their mutual orbits so they are slowly getting closer and closer together. <br /> <br /> J: So is this happening to the earth in orbit around the sun.<br /> <br /> B: Good question Jay. It absolutely is. The earth is actually losing 200 Joules a second through gravitational radiation. So this means we are getting closer to the Sun every day and tomorrow will be one protons width closer to the sun. Now, okay, thats not dramatic and it's because we are so far away and and we'd never detect that kind of change observationally especially from 7000 light years away. But this binary system is so massive and close together that we can detect the effects of gravitational waves and that's just exactly what they did. The prediction made by general relativity compared to what the scientists observed matched perfectly. Namely the orbital decay was about 8 millionths of a second per year.<br /> <br /> S: Einstein wins yeah <br /> <br /> B: Yeah, yeah it's beens confirmed again. But why was this test performed if general relativity has been validated so many times and this is kinda the interesting angle to this that I found. Because general relativity almost definitely will be wrong at some point. Now it’s not that the theory is wrong - obviously its been shown to be right too often - there is definitely something to it it but it can't be the final explanation. So today's not the day but I never thought I would say this but hopefully we will test Einstein and we will have a news item that says ‘Einstein was wrong’’, Einstein shown to be wrong’. Not that his theories are wrong but just that they found the edge (S: incomplete) we found where his theories don’t hold sway any more and then we can get into the next layer of this amazing onion we call physics.<br /> <br /> S: All right<br /> <br /> B: I just made that up - right on the spot<br /> <br /> (laughter)<br /> <br /> Beautiful imagery Bob<br /> <br /> == Special Report: ''Oblivion'' Review &lt;small&gt;(31:44)&lt;/small&gt;==<br /> * ''Oblivion'' Review: The Rogues take a skeptical look at ''Oblivion'' the movie.<br /> <br /> What is the noisy we're going to have a special segment of the show where we do another movie review yes a meeting with you is so popular we all didn't we see the movie ok Livius sure I do and its good night for you guys I was at the end of the movie theater and I was going to go online and check it and I saw through when suddenly there's traffic Park 3d 130 Scientologists in Jurassic Park 3 day in a crazy it was a douchebag daddy's not seen any of it so uh maybe I went to see Jurassic Park instead of Hyde Park but we can talk about Jessica Alba naked I read the Wikipedia page for a new title of this place so we are going to be talking about the movie oblivion and we will be giving message boilers hope you don't happen to the movie yet fast forward to see you can come back and listen to this after you have watched a movie so you did see the movie what you guys gonna pressure is a better than promoted actually a raise he a future movie aliens attack to destroy the earth with war in the cruise is one of the last humans apparently I'm here ready idea was that she's one of the people that are left behind to clean up and to finish gathering iris water so they can the humanity can move to trade Titan Titan rather site right people to see the aliens but they had to destroy the earth in the kind of sucks I like it I mean II do have despise again screwed hard to what enjoy him anymore but I think you did a decent job I enjoy the movie and drank a little bit in the second act but I really enjoyed it did that there is a lot of on me to teach you want to terms of agreed Juice science a screw ups nothing for me to do things were there and she doing this weekend start start with you seen yo did the aliens states in a taxi or the first thing you did was blow up the moon which which Rudy recorder Craigs and tsunami you Nami and not yet I really want out of work I'm in the mood to smithereens a didn't couldn't recall election together and yeah that was that would be a problem but I was kind of cool it was really nice image with huge chunks of gravitation the band together with me reminder to breed going on in opposite direction really looks really cool I might have a little bit to find Briody outskirts of man Dan and in the night sky that was cool but you would not have a debit devastation Aisha gravitational force the moon was still there was still pretty much close enough together that does the tide really would have been impacted the movie come back together you wouldn't have big chunks the moon hanging right next to each other mutual gravity running right back together does it have been a good show kind of a ring of debris and you could have a ring of debris p.o.d smaller pieces are far enough away from the moon that there in world around the earth Ryan wouldn't want to collect back to the name of these two chunks right next to each other yeah but not clapping back into is here do you think it would take for two to recall ask not 60 and Shay I have devastated it was so intense I think that day it was kind of like a mini Destruction released a part of our part I do know though that scientists think that when the moon form you have a smart style optics impact earth Alta Vista pre went to orbit around the Earth it was pastor rose limit switch it rain down on Earth to the Moon River surprised it took me about a century for that she would ring around the earth to to form one possibly two moons for free. Right before they were together century so I think it would it would be quickly as long as it was in the proper order to not to and not to love and look like it it is collapse back together in within seconds to me to mediately they wouldn't be right there hanging a part of having some probs with the corner plot of the movie scores to contrive alien attack nearest movie have to allow for certain contrivances it to make the movie possible but we talked about this before why did Indians father coming to the earth just a second ride that's what you're doing Yeah right you didn't I know how you do water uh f*** the hydrogen atom I know it's ridiculous give me energy bad choice expended just getting your energy in the ocean today we can recover point oooo oooo oooo 1 percent of the year sorry I got 20 stupid water gas giants somewhere this did not happen if my people who are going to try to kill you defender planning your saying that the riders could have come up with a better reason why they needed Earth may be there yeah it's cliche lazy and doesn't really work because the map doesn't even work but that's alright you got a given that to happen does the machines work very cool in the ride where is it cool images Delia ship is a huge T four picture message on my iPhone with the movie quiz much more in the writing and directing because I was able to predict almost everything that was going on yahoo instant you see Tom Cruise claim you know as soon as PDF page as soon as I read it as memory race time like I said borrowed really have a lady from every other b**** yeah that sounds like noon did China King retreat memory wipe that's just something to my ass what you doing for the superficial reasons given that it was for security you need that right now obviously they don't expect you to believe it that's alright Meijer to the movie that again is contries in lazy is really so the the super advanced aliens get here with your message ship and then to take over the Earth send down loans for me to do the nearest little virus nice dinner gas tiny running errands right like why didn't they send does too many of them new pic on it what the hell is job was to watch repair them in and find the ridiculous like ghetto first of all the why are the drones getting damage so much not that many humans like I guess it was enough to wear casually take out the trash on your neck is there a text plan seems silly 1350 if we were just infestation in their way of sucking up all of our water I mean tell you to get here they would If the wife is at without having to send out an army Ridge Road east to be so many ways to do that would never have a chance against a speaker specially since this whole thing started in 2017 yeah what the hell why did you make that movie stars four years from now for your semen Eastland made 50 or 60 or 70 years and it's actually possible that he would have detected they were saying we're going to happen for you to check with the alien text about this to Nash if they sent to the gate have to be on in five years ago to have that shipping 2017 anything actually no reason for them not to just have it all happen in 2050 yes fly nothing around like a shower after next generation know where did that text I was out of whack and sleeping unit I have a problem with them they had to clock in like techno devices that basically the picture to sleep sleep sleep somebody cares receipt for 60 years no adult asleep of course cut to me Conyers image of don't what is your deepest sleep delta waves of the solution hyshiba to bring ways and so it makes you think by their naming convention at in the receipt in some way to work cited they look to sleep Rosen they weren't 200 any other way so we going with that team is it ridiculous you you're not going to sleep for 60 years I mean you couldn't even have Elizabeth you're going to be aging pop out of the car return to start raining around so I didn't like that idea of using the worst thing that I mean to the idea was that some of the crew was put in a few deep sleeper suspended animation works couple years while they got to the destination in Manassas are you even that far can definitely do 20 2015 Raider next couple years 2050 nudist 8040 going to go to Jupiter at 10 20:17 and how much time to get there no no it was a great fight fighters I was thinking the same thing because why did you take 60 years for the escape pod to get back to your ears Stevens I was thinking the same thing one camera angles what is your the text and then the difference right there with Natasha it was close is this as a question about the Indian or did Aaron or 56 years why did the aliens just kill them yeah they were drifting back to read okay to continue like what made them come to Earth after 60 years old is she bringing down ass b**** but today is so they said they were supposed to be asleep that's what the technology way to take it just sleep for 60 years and you're saying it does is sleep chambers ever designed for a couple years with work for 60 years and if you after 60 years of being in some sort of sleep slash suspended state she says she sees the actress who survives the cake is a ride to be Tom Cruise's wife. She said so keep you to feel well the next she has a bowl of soup and she's good to go How much is with you gone so maybe she would require you to do that you could survive for 60 years is ridiculous even if she did she would be months of rehab to get back to some kind of functioning yes to do because it's sci-fi a line to explain it away because of the blah blah blah you know you I 50 or 60 years in the future rider could have said oh you're don't worry your name high school I will take care of the whatever you know but something some futuristic text to 2017 yeah I know Steve 5 years what happened to my guys I didn't like the fact so many iconic structures were still standing I get to say had to portray that things like okay this is Washington DC in Washington Monument nothing else around it is come Washington mine barely holding up on its own why would that be anything else 500 mile radius that seems really nice things happen like delete a destroyed the Taj Mahal is Big Ben in the Eiffel Tower and what was the ground level say hi and that I didn't get any of that dirt basically vision York City was curious to see how to make believe show it was crazy some of the street to collapse to the trenches from Star Wars is the street with East now these trenches deep down into the into the earth my speculation is the tsunami sushi Washington 1323 dust fallout from the nuclear wars what is the best gas for the building still standing but let's see I was with me that was Washington to your to Berryman hey guys what's in that scene over the mountain ranges Mountain sprout 60 years in that time it was it I don't know what they were thinking without it was very light discontinuity there I've got one thing that you said I see in a much better so glad I see there's all these other you got these um she's not forget again a minir Fighters interpreter whatever they are and there's no way are you human being is going to be the dog fight with you too G Force yeah you know if you're a machine 1051 a problem where is Tom Cruise to be tricky stuff in the back of the back of his c*** b**** because you could not handle this is no way that he should be able to do birds season is dance a lease road please come up with the reason why nobody can hear anything when you're firing your weapon anybody find anything to watch the a-team too much I guess everything and wanted to hit you know the computer charger developed like all the Prometheus scale for describing how to clean accurate 125 125 is not that's not a good to hang out 51 previous is minor but unnecessary scientific inaccuracies. Two for me to use is multiple inaccuracies implausible series or is one major scientific gas 3 is multiple gas or is implausible premise of the whole movie where is the main part of the movie is based on the size of a massive scientific understanding 95 is the entire movie is one of the scientific abomination how many Prometheus with you give this movie is 2&amp;a half 2.7 2.75 yeah give it to you too I gave you reading system 11 for me t.i toads gorgeous gorgeous movie I do I love his son scrap was fantastic Atlanta Galleria Birmingham recommended on YouTube and look up the making of that movie they show the the main set is there house which is a perch way up in the sky its very futuristic looking house just said that they build for that is incredible the sky that you see from that s*** is actually project on two screens physically in the room with the set is he did that because I didn't want the green screen color to brown talking to recycle services in on the set itself so go take a look at it that blew my mind<br /> <br /> == Who's That Noisy? &lt;small&gt;(50:06)&lt;/small&gt;==<br /> <br /> okay Evan quickly who said we see here we go last week who's that noisy Quality advice is black or blue plate and don't put too much food on your place you lose weight doing nothing too much weight on your plate for food Marie diamond is the gala speaking there and I'll read her by a few lines for bio leaving now and trance liters featured in the world life and I'm in on the secret she uses her extraordinary knowledge of Bob wants sex the law of attraction and sayings way energy to help people transformer environments and their lives to quack really millions of people buy her books to sear commentary in this week's winner of the contest is miranda Richardson well done Rand a good guess what are you up to this week for this weekend another noisy to play for you so I'm going to go ahead and turn it up a couple times I think to take a guess but to give it a shot here we go yeah okay so uh you're paying attention in last week or two you may have a new bed WTN at Oregon email address for that mean you guess is and the message boards beer gmail.com good luck Everyone.<br /> <br /> == Questions and Emails ==<br /> === Question 1: Is SETI Science?&lt;small&gt;(51:55)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> <br /> Thanks Evan. We're going to do an email this week this question comes from Jim Phynn from Horsham, PA (Pennsylvania) and Jim writes:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;Hi, guys! Got a question for you: do you consider the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence to be science or pseudoscience? I recently got into an online debate and found myself in the minority because I maintained that the central thesis -- that if intelligent life exists somewhere out there in the greater universe, we would be able to recognize it based upon patterns in radio waves -- is not falsifiable. It seems to me that there could be three reasons why, if we turn our telescopes in any specific direction, we would not find patterns in the radio waves: 1 -- there's nothing there, 2 -- there's something there but they haven't yet developed the technology to create those patterns, or 3 -- we're looking for the wrong things. It would seem to me that the only way to truly falsify SETI, we'd need to map quite literally every body in the universe and rule them out one by one and say that they don't have anything there in terms of extraterrestrial intelligence. Unlike other complex hypotheses that are limited by available technologies, I'm not convinced that the task of mapping the universe is even possible, even with a sufficiently advanced technology. What do you think? Am I missing something? I'm not trying to argue that the endeavor of SETI is a waste of time or energy, but I'm just not sold on it qualifying as genuine science. Thanks! Jim Phynn Horsham, PA&lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> What do you guys think about that there's decades of research that has been that has been done and the consensus seems to be that it is actual science what about what is primary point there that the the main thesis of city is not full supply I mean so what I need to touch base is such a big place its so huge and be so hard to believe map in pounds that against the idea that we know that is pretty much know that is intelligent life out there and they could be communicating with the benefit of of finding it would just far outweighs any argument think you could you can muster about 945 wait wait hold it I hope you don't mind Bob might might might jumping in here is a Sun sets show stack from set it is it is this F City NC coming well I can I use to fire escape in the back door so you didn't notice it was really doing the podcast that's right it was just being played into my green bob says that we know that they're out there and I'd like to think he's right we don't know that they're out there that's really the point here the guy who sent you that email in a sense she's right its not a falsifiable hypothesis you can't see that the aliens are not out there you can't do that no wake me right you can't exam in every square centimeter of real estate in the cosmos not there but on the other hand you can prove they are there if you find a signal so you know this is expiration and Jackson valuable part of Science not all times has to be falsifiable think about this coming up black holes and nobody spected quasars hypothesized hypothesis there and it wasn't just found its expiration yeah I totally agree 1710 Automation exclamation is part of Science I think this comes from a Charlie nearing the definition of signs only one thing that countersigned fact many endeavors count as part of the scientific process an observation to Panji just wrong just looking to see what's there absolutely count also I would argue that the the Falls five billion the hypothesis entirely depends on how you phrase it as you said your hypothesis is there is no radio transmitting technological civilizations out there that's falsifiable with one counterexample there you go you have a false if I will have Papa so you could answer by doing radio astronomy in the city program contrived just do either way he's putting together the purpose of City to prove that there isn't a single in radio transmitting civilization out there its just to serve a crazy that we can serve eight and makes a testicle comments about the density of radio transmitting civilizations right absolutely right I'm doing with you know Captain Cook did the 250 years ago and it was sent out to the South Pacific by the British add meeting yeah idea was to go see what's out there in 10 mapid: reportin whatever exploration and says its a particularly in astronomy because in astronomy the track record of predicting what might be out there hasn't been so terrific its almost all been discovery by just people pointing telescopes at the sky. So if you want to say that a strong is not science uh you know you look send many of my friends but but I think that you could make the argument that yes it's on hey I was originally on your site their satisfaction the scene she realize that you are just a Serta charismatic leader that you would find heading up a religion like to search for sale I'm on the side of the mailer critical leader furniture to Hawaii call Michael Crichton 17 a.m. to talk to get down at Caltech that said he was a religion can say to that is if it were village and begin with I have a lot more money to be dressed better to that would probably be official garbage have to wear but you know that distinguishes religion from time is it in you don't require data to prove a hypothesis in here if you claim that you know well now we know they're out there Narayan around the starry hundred light years away in this direction to you need today to prevent any religion doesn't require data you taking something so I think it is different religion you're all you really need to do there is to tell me that I was on the same side dishes Michael Crichton and on your side again you had me convinced it's a trust unclean so it can extreme skepticism get in the way of progress I don't think so look at a sign of course I'm very very skeptical mean somebody publishes a result in your field take me to Meijer new discovery your reaction to that it's not raining me to meet his keys wrong and I'm going to write sentences skepticism because nobody wants the next guy to win the Nobel Prize so you know what are skeptical that's a fundamental of Science in the first thing that happens when you come up with something new is it three people write papers showing when you're wrong thats good its good to go to force you to backup your claims sure give me some things down sometimes going to be stupid remove the could you look even otherwise raining blood about this recently on there was some interesting comments wonderfully coming to suggest that we shouldn't be searching for radio waves hope that we should be hunting for scaler waves give me to talking about well did not not really I mean it looked at you look for electromagnetic radiation for radio we look for light you can include information in radio or lighter in December very clever very sophisticated invent things that we don't look for to be quite honest we have an exoskeleton possibly sex with skater boys are you talking about here I don't really know but I get emails everyday from people suggest other approaches like you know what you can gravity waves maybe you need to communicate to us with gravity ways and ready in 10 minutes attractive idea but you know its is it doesn't make a lot of sense because raboti way too fast in radio lights to make you need to shake a star or something like that. You know, That's a real to challenge a teacher to build a transmitter that would fit on my desk year and dad that would be powerful enough to to reach your mother started the people suggest neutrinos and then there are those who suggest hyperdimensional physics whatever the heck that is already collected to your things I can't I got one for 2010 golden thats it thats a favorite because people have decided that would let you know you can be to speed of light uh you can send information instantaneously it's true the quantum entanglement does involve teenies changes in the state of particles a great distance but it's also true that I'm Stein seems to be right it doesn't allow you to transmit information faster than the speed of light lymphangitis too bad I just was one question came up about what the range of radio waves for radio signal should be what I found was that narrow band signals could have a range of thousands of light years depends on the power to transmitter in the size you received this note range limits mean I've seen in the literature many times people who take some unknown source think I know what you're saying but after about a light year to any reasonable transmitter that the signal would disappear into the background noise of the universe will have some background you can always tease out that signal if you want to go to picking up into a meeting right hehehe you light up my eyes my eyes have a nice to have an aperture quarter financial whatever it is but that's good enough to pick up light coming to me for me to wake from Star right and butter pretty feet start I can see that are either people to faint just trying to have to do so I can see that you can always always be to rap by building a bigger instrument thank you for emerging from the podcast EE 37th Street on Saidi appreciate you always being on hand my pleasure anytime next time religion comes up in the context to Saidi let me know I'll do take care Seth.<br /> <br /> == Science or Fiction &lt;small&gt;(1:02:18)&lt;/small&gt; ==<br /> [http://primaryfacts.com/408/amazon-river-facts-and-information/ Item #1]: Although not the longest river in the world, the Amazon is the biggest, containing more water than the next 10 largest rivers combined.<br /> [http://www.livescience.com/6426-reality-river-monsters.html Item #2]: Although not the threat often portrayed in film, schools of red-bellied piranha will occasionally feed on large animals and are responsible for about 20 human deaths per year. <br /> [http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/fish.html Item #3]: The Amazon contains more fish species than the Atlantic Ocean.<br /> <br /> can you tell me which one is it take we have a steam this week the team is the Amazon River 23 pakadi Amazon River you guys ready yet we go I remember one thing longest river in the world the Amazon is the biggest containing more water in the next 10 largest rivers combined hangover 2 although im not a threat open for trade in film schools of red belly piranha will occasionally feet on large animals are responsible for about 22 min deaths per year and I am Number 3 the Amazon contains more fish species in the Atlantic Ocean Evan go first alright the first one in regards to it not being the longest river in the world the next 10 largest rivers combined that's the Nile nylon not sure about that one what about the red belly piranhas case we feeding on large animals to humans 20 min just for u I don't see a problem with that show my ways does bachata Portrane reality you in lots of ways from ac maybe one maybe not I'm feeling that this one is correct and then there's the last one more fish species in the Amazon in the entire Atlantic Ocean have to think on that that's the case ocean has one life in it but I'll lie that life is not fish species things going there I'm going to say it being the biggest river containing more water in the next 10 largest rivers that's the fiction ok a Bobb about dumb just fishin Atlantic Ocean the Amazon goes two ways a rainforest and I know the rainforest has a credible biological diversity and perhaps I could kind of can you still over as well ah but still it that sounds pretty bold more fish species Cindy Lane Goshen Corona yeah I feel a cation and large animals for 20 years never heard that hard I would I would think number one of the other biggest word in the 10 largest confined to see that fish did I'm going to go with the other garage okay okay what about the Amazon being the biggest I don't know much about how wide it is insured berries in parts in any BS that of course have to to take into account how deep it is a surprise in there it is possible for 20 Yuma desi year I have no reason to believe that if anyone has seen the movie pron paranahs Shack in front of their dead leader angry and they know what they're doing something that scares Ellie Drive movie in 3d yes they do you receive a good look at their facebook but I don't know man is trying to not good enough I was the last one about the Amazon contain more fish species in the Atlantic Ocean doubt that I could see more variation for some reason being in the Amazon okay that's gonna leave me to be to saying that the first one about the largest river in the world Amazon and Rebecca I'm torn between the first if I could totally play the damn son has fish finders fee Amazon for so many other two equally ugly people think I could believe that the Amazon is the biggest I feel like it's it up there in terms of being a long as it gets like second shirt Niles Indiana to get more water the next 10 Rana's there's no way they could be responsible for 20 deaths a year right like the have a reputation but as cheaply did out everyday Shinkansen films and did some certain ok sweet Lea AGS actuated there's no way to take Elijah to conception is the train is too I'm going to go to Corona one I don't think they kill 20 people a year okay so we got Bob Rebecca trying to Jane Evans with the biggest river into all agree that the Amazon contains more fish species in the Atlantic Ocean you all think that want to sign that one is science that's awesome but just barely I read that fact and then I tried to verify it and it seems to be true although I did find one source that says that they're the same b****** 3050 sees ok to be pretty consistent in the references I found that the Amazon River Basin River has about three thousand different species I could find reliable numbers for the Atlantic Ocean Sam said less than the Amazon some said the same but it's probably a moving target anyway cause they're in the middle of a big survey and they're finding more fish species ok that been five years that may not be true anymore but if anything works pieces in the Sun to pick up but for right now that what is sin number one of those not the longest river in the world Amazon is the biggest containing more water than the next 10 largest rivers combined Jane ever you think this one is the fiction and this one is science oh yeah baby yeah very surprised you knew it was big but it really is really big fish the Amazon releases more than 200,000 cubic meters of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean show on a train 630 South America pretty much it does it is about 4,000 miles or 6400 climate urs long 321 Nile is a little bit longer so that is also controversial and you know depends on how you measure it and said they may swap places wanted to know what were the years has different measurements how to right now the official measurement of the Nile to the little bit longer but the Amazon is bigger it has its wider usually between 1 to 5 miles wide on average it's much bigger when it floods when you're doing when he wanted to go over closing it 20 miles wide faces well yeah that's what I was saying I didn't know how wide are deep is the most variable figure that I have read every source I break a bit different number for the number of tributaries at the Amazon has a sound and it seems to be about the average 1000 1100 1700 505 yeah but I think it probably somewhere around $1000 so true because I guess it depends on how big you count of how big a tributary do you count and maybe in dry shoes in the dryer does the rainforest even have a dry season ah it's wet and weather radar actual dry season I mean variance down to the very thing that is don't know that we call it a dry season um 50 Amazon River so big that it is can support freshwater dolphins sisters difference between a dolphin send a nerd the largest species of river dolphins the motto is there and also the Anaconda course which is the largest snake and many species of Corona so the number to another threat fish species including dolphins for you you know that was number 3 was about fish species of the river not rated film streams red belly piranha location large animals are responsible for about 20 human deaths per year that is fiction show now the red belly piranha are the most aggressive species of Corona and they do sometimes I feed in large schools and they can't get into what is called a feeding frenzy which is what you see you know in the movies went all the waters it was disrupted is the Fisher eating in a frenzy fashion show prana mostly each other fish staples we plan to leave Chris stations and they will scavenge anything baby meat falls into River il happily skeletonize it shut the notion that one source that said that it was Teddy Roosevelt who made the observation that he saw school Corona skeletonized a cow 102 minutes or something that's not probably not really sure I would take a lot longer you need a massive amount 601 expert estimated like 300 fish in order to pull that off and that she get on this date don't usually go after healthy living large animals so if you're swimming in the Amazon they probably will stay away from you did bad worst you make it a bite if they're just sending their nest but they won't try to eat you the crocodile swell crocodiles well I could not find a single documented Schuman death from chronic haha really yeah I know I've sources Ferry on this I couldn't find any reliable source that says yes to the documented Tempe I got the Union the river by Prince there are naked Villagers claims that they put their happened to see if you have an open wound blood lab solutely attract when a product like going after the wounded in the den the dead and injured in the dining room don't like going after healthy animal so you may not want to wait into the Nile with the Lakeland so um get into the notion that you know if you go swimming in the in the Amazon did you run across school prom in adults we do should have bones his son is a myth that is a cinema its all G bones Jones hey does a good job I been Rebecca thank you enjoy for week yet I will<br /> <br /> == Skeptical Quote of the Week &lt;small&gt;(1:13:48)&lt;/small&gt; ==<br /> <br /> so Jay, you got a quote for us this week? Huh and I wasn't invited Mr names Chris would disclose written invited man a poet named William Butler Yeats is Irish poet 20 century hey buddy yeah ah okay okay recognize named affect you more than you did<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.&lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> B: yeah my iphone is like that<br /> <br /> J: William Butler Yeats!<br /> <br /> alright thanks Jay thank you for joining me this week everyone to use thank you Dr a lot of fun is always busy show me in till next week this is your skeptics' guide to the universe<br /> <br /> {{Outro404}}<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> {{Navigation}}</div>

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Today is Tuesday, April 30th 2013 and this is your host Steven Novella. Joining me this week are Bob Novella.<br /> <br /> B: Hey everybody.<br /> <br /> S: Rebecca Watson.<br /> <br /> R: Hello Everyone.<br /> <br /> S: Jay Novella<br /> <br /> J: Hey Guys<br /> <br /> S: And Evan Bernstein.<br /> <br /> E: Are we still an effective team?<br /> <br /> (laughter)<br /> <br /> S: We are still an effective team.<br /> <br /> B: Not in the slightest.<br /> <br /> == This Day in Skepticism &lt;small&gt;(00:33)&lt;/small&gt; ==<br /> * May 4th, 2005: SGU records its first episode<br /> <br /> R: Happy anniversary everybody.<br /> <br /> S: That's right.<br /> <br /> B: Oh my god.<br /> <br /> S: The show goes out on May 4th which is exactly our 8 year anniversary.<br /> <br /> R: May the fourth be with you.<br /> <br /> B: Eight years!<br /> <br /> R: It seems like every week we have some arbitrary anniversary to celebrate.<br /> <br /> S: Milestone yea.<br /> <br /> E: This one's a little less than arbitrary.<br /> <br /> S: Eight freakin years that's a long time.<br /> <br /> E: That's a long slice of life, yeah.<br /> <br /> J: So how many episodes?<br /> <br /> S: This is 407<br /> <br /> B: Wow.<br /> <br /> J: Hey you know how we read a lot of news items on the show and we're like and they said five years are going to get this, we could have actually followed up on some of those 5 year things.<br /> <br /> R: that's right<br /> <br /> E: Do you guys remember this is right before recorded episode 1 it didn't make it onto the show but there was talk about the alpha constant which might not be constant Bob do you remember that specificat reacts to 6921 Dr Michael Murphy if karen was speaking at the physics 2005 just said that the fine structure constant 26 might not be constant after all he was comparing gas cloud fingerprints with those teams on Earth and space in the day has changed by about 1 part 2013 the last 10 billion years show doesn't sound like a lot it's hard to put that in some sort of perspective saying is we may not it may not be constantly need more research to find out if in fact it is said its a tumor research there has been a research done and done more research other signs so done work 8 years later they're still in the same place where they started it is not widely accepted that there's any variation on in the in the constant news items as well does a few that I remember tonight. Time that I wanted to follow up on you guys remember the T Rex proteins oh yeah it was Haiti's scientist found some t-rex proteins and it was 68 million euro proteins me direction was cool and then they were burned protein so it to get dinosaurs related to personal sounded good well after that I started reading and Stephen Salter contact Mexican of the first person to say hey to rest of the community is not accepting this so there is a lot of push back a lot of push back against the original sin to see me just clean it with those said its a contaminant others who were saying it stay didn't do good statistical analysis is just a fluke and the data really didn't prove it real um send a clear Vista released original date of the years the resurgence reviews for a while then they related to now at eight years later where is oldest and it seems like actually did the original sin cos to do claim to find the protein of doing a lot of follow-up research have answered a lot of the critics and they are putting together a much more compelling story Really that they have actually 65 plus you equals year old dinosaur pregnancy did I had wrists or different special man show date the used stereo equipment in really try to control the contamination she stated to statistical analysis 200 saw the ghost criticisms but it seems like the rest of the community is still isn't accepting it they're saying essentially that and the state is coming out of 1 research team really needs to be independently replicated and they still haven't addressed the contamination issue maybe the contamination is coming very quickly 50's does laid on the ground for a long time and we can't be sure the proteins that there are you sleeping or actually soft tissue from the creatures that left those bones behind as opposed to to some other stores in nice story about Giants process assigned to one of those stories where they made a claim he got picked apart route to sleep by the rest of the scientific community in the Navy how to do more and more rigorous message to address all the criticism is it really is a nice story I just assumed they would just like crying wind by being oppressed and supposed to do those lighted sign to clean this conspiracy against and try to get it on schools anyway Tracy ca. to the concert dinosaur protein controversy other mothers news items from 2005 10 planets or eight in radio controversy over whether or not the new copper Belt objects should be named the 10th planet or should Pluto get demoted and not be considered a gun happy how about this one the first human to have to control a robotic arm with a computer chip when was that 2005 that is awesome article today Teresa some person today that um they were controlling it a robotic arm and it moves like a human arm and it had the same type of a text not your fingers but definitely the other joint add one more at the time the smallest rocky EXO planet was 7.5 times the size of my god can you remember that shoot the days back in the day where are we now with the closest to Earth side of multiple world that are the same size of the earth yeah we're stronger even a little smaller than a telescoping people waiting to us fish Alex I like this because this is where are they now at the said since 2021 Saved by the Bell alright TV show is the article from July 2005 single atom pick materials almost ready for primetime Find the talking about graphing a banana to Raffi's the researchers noted the sum of the application probably decades away but they expected to see ultra-fast transistors micromechanical devices innocence is based on one atom to crystals ready in a few years time fast forward a few years time and just a month ago here's the here's a headline for a month ago flash memory chip building built out of single atom pick components hang out app they put them together with traditional components and made a flash memory drive it still a few layers tickets not single layer but and Body Works absolutely works Dave put stuff on there a race did many times to see how it'll how it holds up everything and so there it is you know of Science in action and it's actually coming to fruition pretty much exactly they said it would be cool n***** happy Anniversary here's to another eight years very rare very scary at least 18 years I'm good good for a while and I got s*** to do yeah career does my cycle Oregon my hair did the Frank my hard drive on your Steve we're going to change a few things<br /> <br /> == News Items ==<br /> === Funding Science &lt;small&gt;(08:24)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * ''Science'': [http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteri-1.html U.S. Lawmaker Proposes New Criteria for Choosing NSF Grants]<br /> <br /> Okay. Well let's go on to a few news items. Rebecca, you're going to tell us about politics and funding scientific research yes background church because now there's a stranger in the US who are in the US add a me not the stuff so NFS is the National Science Foundation and they are responsible for something along the lines of 20 percent of all federally funded science is is funded by then they have a budget of around seven and a half billion show how to decide which research gets funded the Trinity that's true AP review process and what does winter looking for is research that is in the public interest and also important to scientists hole so it could be very basic science could be applicable science and the thief and a broad range of things to do with the missus looking for is how this research contributes to the scientific understanding as a whole well there's the bill right now on the trash in trash sponsored by Lamar Smith to is out kind of well-known recently as the sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act super which was shut down last year um which wood is had some say catastrophic a fax on how easy Internet Lamar Smith is now the head of the house Science Committee and she's still would replace the pier in process that add to Germans when an assassin's Andrews place that process with a political Sheeran basically um to politicians with the people who would determine where all this money is going and in particular with they would be looking for I'll be to you from the actual del look for research proposal start in the interest of the United States to advance to national health prosperity or welfare and secure the National Defence to science the finest quality is groundbreaking and answers questions or solve problems after this Friday at large and not too productive other research project being funded by the foundation or other federal signs agencies show there a lot of problems that any difference question may seem like a lizard good positive things to work towards but a person for most probably say you have college tuitions who are determining what the most important scientific research is that needs to be funded add to that is of itself your mediately okay up the science spending two to politics so for instance if the Mar had a problem with shaved global warming research she could possibly turkey to the funding for it open the door for any politician to to destroy any research that the politically don't care don't pay per exactly lol free because of the CVS okasan things like national defense fake ad there's a ton of good science it's being done this at a very foundation a level it in other words it's not the result of the science are not sure the groundbreaking they're not going to create jobs immediately or create weapons as dirt but they're very important to understanding to the body of knowledge and distilled would automatically preclude research like that from being funded show you know it anything if this doesn't work for you then just picture Sarah Palin on the campaign trail complaining about wasted research money on fruit flies I need anything about science news health research fruit flies can beach um and how common it is send message in a politician likes your parents or like this guys like on the marsh miss you have no scientific background no signs of training send leaving the people who decide where this seven and a half billion dollars is going its frankly it's terrifying and irritated yesterday yeah it doesn't get it today created for the trip you any basic science research Plaza there that says that you're not going to do any research that duplicates of the research but that's replication baby what's wrong with the kids to know replication this is a maximally naive interference and 80 a process of deciding which valuable to research this happens actually quite frequently at lyrics funders say that will be one or money to go towards sushi what they say is translational research research that will have a specific usual outcome show in medicine for example you have grassroots organizations that raise money to cure disease a call we want the research to a go to do studies which can potentially cure this disease or improve the item for patience and they're putting a message from on the scale that has a very detrimental effect they mean well I understand weather hurt is but the problem is that you can't know how to balance basic science translational and clinical or Apple store application research unless you're in the field that balance is off is it takes a lot of judgement only the experts in the field to really know where we are and when you shift that balance because you want to research it going to have some specific application you can actually slow down the progress in the field at your funding by taking away funds and researches resources in universities space it cetera away from the more basic research. Really need to be focusing records so this to be a complete disaster is it really nice to be nice maybe has been I don't know a lack of communication or something into director or any pants have to do with them have not explained things clearly enough to a Smith and his colleagues can you can I have a shot in in fact addiszefen more communication is ever existed in the what 16 year history of the NSF because for the first time ever represented Smith station Dennis after the speech at the letter and demanded to see the anonymous what what what supposed to be in on this review of a number of studies funded by an assessed at perhaps she did not feel should have been funded this request at know if there's ever made 5410 see I started with a strongly worded letter does claritin you can't even read all of it on em over add to a science is website news.sciencemag.org Alright thanks, Rebecca.<br /> <br /> === Curse Scam &lt;small&gt;(16:15)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * CBS New York: [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/23/con-artists-tormenting-chinese-immigrants-in-brooklyn-with-cash-or-curse-scam/ Con Artists Tormenting Chinese Immigrants In Brooklyn With Cash-Or-Curse Scam]<br /> <br /> Evan, You're going to tell us about the latest paranormal scam yeah this ones a hot is a celebrity sophisticated is other scams out there but it seems to be effective not coming to is courtesy of CBS New York I seem to con artist for targeting Chinese immigrants specifically in Brooklyn New York hey on your scam they will walk up to the target sometimes right now Street demand cash from now onwards jewels are something else of value and if they don't hand it over they will straighten them with an evil curse they will say things like oh you evil now before you or your family members will suffer and this is been dubbed the cash or curse scam so again you've got the Zelda Chinese people right there a very superstitious demographic and you know this it's basically a form of f****** that is being performed on and they have been known to give over their valuables their possessions the skin is not limited to Newark either days been reported across the country and in other countries around the world so this is taking route because of the fact is people are taking advantage of yeah it is easy to take advantage of the demographic and has a high rate of superstition does is this is a fuse con artists in general target the elderly because maybe they're not quite as savvy with the latest technology so you know computer scams against older people are very common or maybe they have a mild cognitive impairment to the accident taking advantage of a population has medical problems you know fieldstone are the population back potentially can have a lot of funny because they have to be completed over their license and it's not uncommon for for older addicting games 22 B swindled I did as you say another life savings is terrible yes and it seems to stem from something in the Paschal the Chinese blessings scam so I've read some articles about this from years past so it supposed to start carrying the street what the Connersville do with it will go into the shops in markets of these places on by bike Chinese people show the last for money shakedown if they refuse will say in okay well now your family is going to become ill what to do list is that in some cases the scammers will direct the victim to a relative or a doctor Cooper Fort Lee has the power to avert a certain desastre that's good because that's going to come to say something like alright if you want to get out of this bring a bag of valuables with you go see this person alright and I'll get it taken care of what to do the polls which route to take like jewels and stuff out of the bag and replace it with other things like that cause of rice water bottles in other things in the truck and don't open this until you get home wait for a week or two 7 to 10 days and then after that you'll find that no cursing before you and good spirits and Beyond will be with you by the time and I'll pay attention to the to these instructions to realize two weeks later been rocked the Chinese Blessing Scam is what that's called, so this is like a Very Asian of at two different than psychics who should I tell people that they are cursed they have some kind of evil threatening them and that they need to have the blessing done by the psychic who is president Falls thank you have some Christmas money bring me to stack of cash Laughlin to process ABC Street Dalton the money vanishing think about it obvious condo lease or where of it being poured all over the country hopefully awareness will bring about the best<br /> <br /> === ITER - Fusion Reactor &lt;small&gt;(20:26)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * The Independent: [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-13bn-iter-project-makes-breakthrough-in-the-quest-for-nuclear-fusion-a-solution-to-climate-change-and-an-age-of-clean-cheap-energy-8590480.html One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion]<br /> <br /> in India but they won't find out about the International clear experimental reactor really caught me by surprise I had never heard of this project for school TCH her project ITER I'm pretty sure to turn on Cedar and it's the international thermonuclear experimental reactor and or dinner in Latin mean the way and this Is a fusion research in ensuring project goes to demonstrate that it is possible to produce more energy from the fusion process that is used to initiate it courses I finish eating fruit in previous attempts if the project works what will end up with his and model of what the next generation would look like so this is actually going to be a reactor that supposed to be used to power homes Morgan just an experiment to proof of concept the project funded run by the European Union India Japan China Russia South Korea and United States with the European Union investing about 45 percent the money to do it under the current design with fully functional is supposed to produce 500 megabytes per 50 mega watch spent in order of magnitude of energy creation example 500 megabytes keep our about 300,000 average home David Guetta construction in 2007 and main question is why is this a big deal so I thought for such quickly define fusion fusion is when two hydrogen atoms are forming helium in neutron particles loss of Anarchy with the Adams armor Jincy in the form of heat fusion takes place in a measly high temperatures need to overcome the repulsive forces they keep Adams apart from each other neutron shoot off during diffusion process in their energies where he comes from sons core is about 15 million degrees Celsius in Ashford fusion is taking place fusion of course it's been a dream of Science in the beginning of the atomic age which is in 1945 and some people say the beginning of the atomic gauges set of the first bomb on Bruce sooner after the public became or more where it over the next two years about a million individual components of this highly complex usually actor will start to arrive in France in the south of France were three actors housed on these are being built around the world and this project in my opinion is epic for a lot of different reasons I'm first it's proving a huge triumph in countries working together in diplomacy and Science in Engineering it really is heading out a lot of friends here and I think it's awesome Carlson a hydrate who is the project deputy director responsible for safety said it is the largest scientific collaboration the world in fact a project so complex we even had to invent your own currency known as the inter unit of account to decide how much each country pays for Jerry got another one of those big clean off the right on I thought that the International Space Station was the biggest um global project but it did this in that I guess the two top when does the bigger I return yeah okay the great thing is diffusion reactors don't produce any co2 there is any please come out like burning fossil fuels really that would be fantastic to get away from my way to the way to have a meltdown the concern at all yeah you're right by Dr Ellis Hyundai said a female like accident is impossible at either because the fusion reaction is fundamentally safe any disturbance my deal conditions in the reaction will stop a runaway nuclear reaction in a quart meltdown are simply not possible I love reading that I'm thrilled that we are working on this project in that actually sounds phenomenal ISE for the opportunity street thanks for trying to find out where we are right now its not like we know it's going to work this is still experimental technology in there a problems that need to be some absolutely CVS like I said this is a proof-of-concept are going to be building this usually expensive to siilitie testing out the latest and greatest series that they have a meeting have a design building to expect they know what they're trying to achieve in the know exactly what the building or not anything at this point but we won't actually know until about the year 21 or 22 it in that's when the first upside my is scheduled on that's when the ice gases will be injected into into the mechanism and by 28 year 2728 it's going to go nuclear with injections of 50 to Trillium Trillium Grand and then bud 2030 the first demonstration of the fusion reactor to produce electricity and had that electricity be inserted into the grid will happen now keep this in mind they don't really think that's a first commercial nuclear fusion power plant in using new killer II don't know it does matter nuclear nuclear nuclear new year new clear clear clear new clear liquid in 2050 about their saying that if everything goes well that's when we would be able to start the first commercial nuclear fusion power but this has the potential of creating as you have energy without creating greenhouse gases Send to your meeting or chrome we need to release a part of it if it all works out right man 20470 Chinese yeah that would be nice to finish this may not be the technology I get to see if you should ever other designs out there people taking the one I am supposed to have a Mr fusion in two years has happened you like a fat<br /> <br /> === Einstein Still Correct &lt;small&gt;(26:46)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> * CBS News: [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57581682/einsteins-gravity-theory-passes-toughest-test-yet/ Einstein's gravity theory passes toughest test yet]<br /> <br /> S: Bob, quickly tell us how Einstein is right yet again. <br /> <br /> B: Einstein's general relativity has been shown to be accurate for the bagillionth time. Scientists have verified that general relativity's predictions are accurate even when dealing with the most astronomical extreme cases namely the orbital characteristics of the biggest pulsars that they have ever found which is also being orbited by a white dwarf - so its a binary system. Now when I first read this I was almost like, big deal, except for quantum mechanics Albert Einstein pretty much was right on the ball about everything, right. His special and general theories of relativity have survived pretty much every assault thats been made on the them. Not pretty much - every last one and they have always emerged unscathed - so what is different about this? <br /> <br /> And this is interesting because this is a little bit different. First of all this was incredibly, the most extreme test of its kind for general relativity, its never been through the ringer like this one. The binary system that they studied was really incredible. This pulsar was, is amazing, its twice the mass of the Sun and yet its only 12 miles, 20 kilometres across. Imagine that taking the sun doubling its mass and then squeezing it down to 12 miles amazing. There is only one other pulsar that has ever been found that is even in this is this one's class in terms of size and density so its pretty special and then talking about gravitational pull this one surprised me: 300 billion times greater than the force that earth is pulling on your feet or your butt 300 we're feeling right now 300 billion times greater gravitational pull. So that means that each cubic centimetre sized mass on it weighs more than a billion tonnes that's a little bit bigger than a regular, normal six sided die. Its an amazing density. So you add to that the fact that this behemoth rotates on its axis 25 times a second and the white dwarf orbits around that every 2, 2 and a half hours or so. So when scientists discovered this thing they quickly released this binary system would be an amazing location to put Einstein under its toughest test yet and this test was all about gravitational waves which was pretty key. So you guys have heard about gravitational waves right?<br /> <br /> All: Yeah <br /> <br /> B: To get a handle on them you kinda need to know that general relativity explains gravity as mass warping the space-time fabric of the universe right everyone’s heard that almost a billion times. Once Einstein realizes that, it was really a small step for him to come to kinda realize that an object moving in this warped space-time would create ripples in this 4 dimensional fabric that would propagate outwards and that means that the energy contained in this binary system is being lost because of these gravitational waves that are radiating it away and this energy loss manifests itself as a decrease in their mutual orbits so they are slowly getting closer and closer together. <br /> <br /> J: So is this happening to the earth in orbit around the sun.<br /> <br /> B: Good question Jay. It absolutely is. The earth is actually losing 200 Joules a second through gravitational radiation. So this means we are getting closer to the Sun every day and tomorrow will be one protons width closer to the sun. Now, okay, thats not dramatic and it's because we are so far away and and we'd never detect that kind of change observationally especially from 7000 light years away. But this binary system is so massive and close together that we can detect the effects of gravitational waves and that's just exactly what they did. The prediction made by general relativity compared to what the scientists observed matched perfectly. Namley the orbital decay was about 8 millionths of a second per year.<br /> <br /> S: Einstein wins yeah <br /> <br /> B: Yeah, yeah it's beens confirmed again. But why was this test performed if general relativity has been validated so many times and this is kinda the interesting angle to this that I found. Because general relativity almost definitely will be wrong at some point. Now it’s not that the theory is wrong - obviously its been shown to be right too often - there is definitely something to it it but it can't be the final explanation. So today's not the day but I never thought I would say this but hopefully we will test Einstein and we will have a news item that says ‘Einstein was wrong’’, Einstein shown to be wrong’. Not that his theories are wrong but just that they found the edge (S: incomplete) we found where his theories don’t hold sway any more and then we can get into the next layer of this amazing onion we call physics.<br /> <br /> S: All right<br /> <br /> B: I just made that up - right on the spot<br /> <br /> (laughter)<br /> <br /> Beautiful imagery Bob<br /> <br /> == Special Report: ''Oblivion'' Review &lt;small&gt;(31:44)&lt;/small&gt;==<br /> * ''Oblivion'' Review: The Rogues take a skeptical look at ''Oblivion'' the movie.<br /> <br /> What is the noisy we're going to have a special segment of the show where we do another movie review yes a meeting with you is so popular we all didn't we see the movie ok Livius sure I do and its good night for you guys I was at the end of the movie theater and I was going to go online and check it and I saw through when suddenly there's traffic Park 3d 130 Scientologists in Jurassic Park 3 day in a crazy it was a douchebag daddy's not seen any of it so uh maybe I went to see Jurassic Park instead of Hyde Park but we can talk about Jessica Alba naked I read the Wikipedia page for a new title of this place so we are going to be talking about the movie oblivion and we will be giving message boilers hope you don't happen to the movie yet fast forward to see you can come back and listen to this after you have watched a movie so you did see the movie what you guys gonna pressure is a better than promoted actually a raise he a future movie aliens attack to destroy the earth with war in the cruise is one of the last humans apparently I'm here ready idea was that she's one of the people that are left behind to clean up and to finish gathering iris water so they can the humanity can move to trade Titan Titan rather site right people to see the aliens but they had to destroy the earth in the kind of sucks I like it I mean II do have despise again screwed hard to what enjoy him anymore but I think you did a decent job I enjoy the movie and drank a little bit in the second act but I really enjoyed it did that there is a lot of on me to teach you want to terms of agreed Juice science a screw ups nothing for me to do things were there and she doing this weekend start start with you seen yo did the aliens states in a taxi or the first thing you did was blow up the moon which which Rudy recorder Craigs and tsunami you Nami and not yet I really want out of work I'm in the mood to smithereens a didn't couldn't recall election together and yeah that was that would be a problem but I was kind of cool it was really nice image with huge chunks of gravitation the band together with me reminder to breed going on in opposite direction really looks really cool I might have a little bit to find Briody outskirts of man Dan and in the night sky that was cool but you would not have a debit devastation Aisha gravitational force the moon was still there was still pretty much close enough together that does the tide really would have been impacted the movie come back together you wouldn't have big chunks the moon hanging right next to each other mutual gravity running right back together does it have been a good show kind of a ring of debris and you could have a ring of debris p.o.d smaller pieces are far enough away from the moon that there in world around the earth Ryan wouldn't want to collect back to the name of these two chunks right next to each other yeah but not clapping back into is here do you think it would take for two to recall ask not 60 and Shay I have devastated it was so intense I think that day it was kind of like a mini Destruction released a part of our part I do know though that scientists think that when the moon form you have a smart style optics impact earth Alta Vista pre went to orbit around the Earth it was pastor rose limit switch it rain down on Earth to the Moon River surprised it took me about a century for that she would ring around the earth to to form one possibly two moons for free. Right before they were together century so I think it would it would be quickly as long as it was in the proper order to not to and not to love and look like it it is collapse back together in within seconds to me to mediately they wouldn't be right there hanging a part of having some probs with the corner plot of the movie scores to contrive alien attack nearest movie have to allow for certain contrivances it to make the movie possible but we talked about this before why did Indians father coming to the earth just a second ride that's what you're doing Yeah right you didn't I know how you do water uh f*** the hydrogen atom I know it's ridiculous give me energy bad choice expended just getting your energy in the ocean today we can recover point oooo oooo oooo 1 percent of the year sorry I got 20 stupid water gas giants somewhere this did not happen if my people who are going to try to kill you defender planning your saying that the riders could have come up with a better reason why they needed Earth may be there yeah it's cliche lazy and doesn't really work because the map doesn't even work but that's alright you got a given that to happen does the machines work very cool in the ride where is it cool images Delia ship is a huge T four picture message on my iPhone with the movie quiz much more in the writing and directing because I was able to predict almost everything that was going on yahoo instant you see Tom Cruise claim you know as soon as PDF page as soon as I read it as memory race time like I said borrowed really have a lady from every other b**** yeah that sounds like noon did China King retreat memory wipe that's just something to my ass what you doing for the superficial reasons given that it was for security you need that right now obviously they don't expect you to believe it that's alright Meijer to the movie that again is contries in lazy is really so the the super advanced aliens get here with your message ship and then to take over the Earth send down loans for me to do the nearest little virus nice dinner gas tiny running errands right like why didn't they send does too many of them new pic on it what the hell is job was to watch repair them in and find the ridiculous like ghetto first of all the why are the drones getting damage so much not that many humans like I guess it was enough to wear casually take out the trash on your neck is there a text plan seems silly 1350 if we were just infestation in their way of sucking up all of our water I mean tell you to get here they would If the wife is at without having to send out an army Ridge Road east to be so many ways to do that would never have a chance against a speaker specially since this whole thing started in 2017 yeah what the hell why did you make that movie stars four years from now for your semen Eastland made 50 or 60 or 70 years and it's actually possible that he would have detected they were saying we're going to happen for you to check with the alien text about this to Nash if they sent to the gate have to be on in five years ago to have that shipping 2017 anything actually no reason for them not to just have it all happen in 2050 yes fly nothing around like a shower after next generation know where did that text I was out of whack and sleeping unit I have a problem with them they had to clock in like techno devices that basically the picture to sleep sleep sleep somebody cares receipt for 60 years no adult asleep of course cut to me Conyers image of don't what is your deepest sleep delta waves of the solution hyshiba to bring ways and so it makes you think by their naming convention at in the receipt in some way to work cited they look to sleep Rosen they weren't 200 any other way so we going with that team is it ridiculous you you're not going to sleep for 60 years I mean you couldn't even have Elizabeth you're going to be aging pop out of the car return to start raining around so I didn't like that idea of using the worst thing that I mean to the idea was that some of the crew was put in a few deep sleeper suspended animation works couple years while they got to the destination in Manassas are you even that far can definitely do 20 2015 Raider next couple years 2050 nudist 8040 going to go to Jupiter at 10 20:17 and how much time to get there no no it was a great fight fighters I was thinking the same thing because why did you take 60 years for the escape pod to get back to your ears Stevens I was thinking the same thing one camera angles what is your the text and then the difference right there with Natasha it was close is this as a question about the Indian or did Aaron or 56 years why did the aliens just kill them yeah they were drifting back to read okay to continue like what made them come to Earth after 60 years old is she bringing down ass b**** but today is so they said they were supposed to be asleep that's what the technology way to take it just sleep for 60 years and you're saying it does is sleep chambers ever designed for a couple years with work for 60 years and if you after 60 years of being in some sort of sleep slash suspended state she says she sees the actress who survives the cake is a ride to be Tom Cruise's wife. She said so keep you to feel well the next she has a bowl of soup and she's good to go How much is with you gone so maybe she would require you to do that you could survive for 60 years is ridiculous even if she did she would be months of rehab to get back to some kind of functioning yes to do because it's sci-fi a line to explain it away because of the blah blah blah you know you I 50 or 60 years in the future rider could have said oh you're don't worry your name high school I will take care of the whatever you know but something some futuristic text to 2017 yeah I know Steve 5 years what happened to my guys I didn't like the fact so many iconic structures were still standing I get to say had to portray that things like okay this is Washington DC in Washington Monument nothing else around it is come Washington mine barely holding up on its own why would that be anything else 500 mile radius that seems really nice things happen like delete a destroyed the Taj Mahal is Big Ben in the Eiffel Tower and what was the ground level say hi and that I didn't get any of that dirt basically vision York City was curious to see how to make believe show it was crazy some of the street to collapse to the trenches from Star Wars is the street with East now these trenches deep down into the into the earth my speculation is the tsunami sushi Washington 1323 dust fallout from the nuclear wars what is the best gas for the building still standing but let's see I was with me that was Washington to your to Berryman hey guys what's in that scene over the mountain ranges Mountain sprout 60 years in that time it was it I don't know what they were thinking without it was very light discontinuity there I've got one thing that you said I see in a much better so glad I see there's all these other you got these um she's not forget again a minir Fighters interpreter whatever they are and there's no way are you human being is going to be the dog fight with you too G Force yeah you know if you're a machine 1051 a problem where is Tom Cruise to be tricky stuff in the back of the back of his c*** b**** because you could not handle this is no way that he should be able to do birds season is dance a lease road please come up with the reason why nobody can hear anything when you're firing your weapon anybody find anything to watch the a-team too much I guess everything and wanted to hit you know the computer charger developed like all the Prometheus scale for describing how to clean accurate 125 125 is not that's not a good to hang out 51 previous is minor but unnecessary scientific inaccuracies. Two for me to use is multiple inaccuracies implausible series or is one major scientific gas 3 is multiple gas or is implausible premise of the whole movie where is the main part of the movie is based on the size of a massive scientific understanding 95 is the entire movie is one of the scientific abomination how many Prometheus with you give this movie is 2&amp;a half 2.7 2.75 yeah give it to you too I gave you reading system 11 for me t.i toads gorgeous gorgeous movie I do I love his son scrap was fantastic Atlanta Galleria Birmingham recommended on YouTube and look up the making of that movie they show the the main set is there house which is a perch way up in the sky its very futuristic looking house just said that they build for that is incredible the sky that you see from that s*** is actually project on two screens physically in the room with the set is he did that because I didn't want the green screen color to brown talking to recycle services in on the set itself so go take a look at it that blew my mind<br /> <br /> == Who's That Noisy? &lt;small&gt;(50:06)&lt;/small&gt;==<br /> <br /> okay Evan quickly who said we see here we go last week who's that noisy Quality advice is black or blue plate and don't put too much food on your place you lose weight doing nothing too much weight on your plate for food Marie diamond is the gala speaking there and I'll read her by a few lines for bio leaving now and trance liters featured in the world life and I'm in on the secret she uses her extraordinary knowledge of Bob wants sex the law of attraction and sayings way energy to help people transformer environments and their lives to quack really millions of people buy her books to sear commentary in this week's winner of the contest is miranda Richardson well done Rand a good guess what are you up to this week for this weekend another noisy to play for you so I'm going to go ahead and turn it up a couple times I think to take a guess but to give it a shot here we go yeah okay so uh you're paying attention in last week or two you may have a new bed WTN at Oregon email address for that mean you guess is and the message boards beer gmail.com good luck Everyone.<br /> <br /> == Questions and Emails ==<br /> === Question 1: Is SETI Science?&lt;small&gt;(51:55)&lt;/small&gt;===<br /> <br /> Thanks Evan. We're going to do an email this week this question comes from Jim Phynn from Horsham, PA (Pennsylvania) and Jim writes:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;Hi, guys! Got a question for you: do you consider the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence to be science or pseudoscience? I recently got into an online debate and found myself in the minority because I maintained that the central thesis -- that if intelligent life exists somewhere out there in the greater universe, we would be able to recognize it based upon patterns in radio waves -- is not falsifiable. It seems to me that there could be three reasons why, if we turn our telescopes in any specific direction, we would not find patterns in the radio waves: 1 -- there's nothing there, 2 -- there's something there but they haven't yet developed the technology to create those patterns, or 3 -- we're looking for the wrong things. It would seem to me that the only way to truly falsify SETI, we'd need to map quite literally every body in the universe and rule them out one by one and say that they don't have anything there in terms of extraterrestrial intelligence. Unlike other complex hypotheses that are limited by available technologies, I'm not convinced that the task of mapping the universe is even possible, even with a sufficiently advanced technology. What do you think? Am I missing something? I'm not trying to argue that the endeavor of SETI is a waste of time or energy, but I'm just not sold on it qualifying as genuine science. Thanks! Jim Phynn Horsham, PA&lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> What do you guys think about that there's decades of research that has been that has been done and the consensus seems to be that it is actual science what about what is primary point there that the the main thesis of city is not full supply I mean so what I need to touch base is such a big place its so huge and be so hard to believe map in pounds that against the idea that we know that is pretty much know that is intelligent life out there and they could be communicating with the benefit of of finding it would just far outweighs any argument think you could you can muster about 945 wait wait hold it I hope you don't mind Bob might might might jumping in here is a Sun sets show stack from set it is it is this F City NC coming well I can I use to fire escape in the back door so you didn't notice it was really doing the podcast that's right it was just being played into my green bob says that we know that they're out there and I'd like to think he's right we don't know that they're out there that's really the point here the guy who sent you that email in a sense she's right its not a falsifiable hypothesis you can't see that the aliens are not out there you can't do that no wake me right you can't exam in every square centimeter of real estate in the cosmos not there but on the other hand you can prove they are there if you find a signal so you know this is expiration and Jackson valuable part of Science not all times has to be falsifiable think about this coming up black holes and nobody spected quasars hypothesized hypothesis there and it wasn't just found its expiration yeah I totally agree 1710 Automation exclamation is part of Science I think this comes from a Charlie nearing the definition of signs only one thing that countersigned fact many endeavors count as part of the scientific process an observation to Panji just wrong just looking to see what's there absolutely count also I would argue that the the Falls five billion the hypothesis entirely depends on how you phrase it as you said your hypothesis is there is no radio transmitting technological civilizations out there that's falsifiable with one counterexample there you go you have a false if I will have Papa so you could answer by doing radio astronomy in the city program contrived just do either way he's putting together the purpose of City to prove that there isn't a single in radio transmitting civilization out there its just to serve a crazy that we can serve eight and makes a testicle comments about the density of radio transmitting civilizations right absolutely right I'm doing with you know Captain Cook did the 250 years ago and it was sent out to the South Pacific by the British add meeting yeah idea was to go see what's out there in 10 mapid: reportin whatever exploration and says its a particularly in astronomy because in astronomy the track record of predicting what might be out there hasn't been so terrific its almost all been discovery by just people pointing telescopes at the sky. So if you want to say that a strong is not science uh you know you look send many of my friends but but I think that you could make the argument that yes it's on hey I was originally on your site their satisfaction the scene she realize that you are just a Serta charismatic leader that you would find heading up a religion like to search for sale I'm on the side of the mailer critical leader furniture to Hawaii call Michael Crichton 17 a.m. to talk to get down at Caltech that said he was a religion can say to that is if it were village and begin with I have a lot more money to be dressed better to that would probably be official garbage have to wear but you know that distinguishes religion from time is it in you don't require data to prove a hypothesis in here if you claim that you know well now we know they're out there Narayan around the starry hundred light years away in this direction to you need today to prevent any religion doesn't require data you taking something so I think it is different religion you're all you really need to do there is to tell me that I was on the same side dishes Michael Crichton and on your side again you had me convinced it's a trust unclean so it can extreme skepticism get in the way of progress I don't think so look at a sign of course I'm very very skeptical mean somebody publishes a result in your field take me to Meijer new discovery your reaction to that it's not raining me to meet his keys wrong and I'm going to write sentences skepticism because nobody wants the next guy to win the Nobel Prize so you know what are skeptical that's a fundamental of Science in the first thing that happens when you come up with something new is it three people write papers showing when you're wrong thats good its good to go to force you to backup your claims sure give me some things down sometimes going to be stupid remove the could you look even otherwise raining blood about this recently on there was some interesting comments wonderfully coming to suggest that we shouldn't be searching for radio waves hope that we should be hunting for scaler waves give me to talking about well did not not really I mean it looked at you look for electromagnetic radiation for radio we look for light you can include information in radio or lighter in December very clever very sophisticated invent things that we don't look for to be quite honest we have an exoskeleton possibly sex with skater boys are you talking about here I don't really know but I get emails everyday from people suggest other approaches like you know what you can gravity waves maybe you need to communicate to us with gravity ways and ready in 10 minutes attractive idea but you know its is it doesn't make a lot of sense because raboti way too fast in radio lights to make you need to shake a star or something like that. You know, That's a real to challenge a teacher to build a transmitter that would fit on my desk year and dad that would be powerful enough to to reach your mother started the people suggest neutrinos and then there are those who suggest hyperdimensional physics whatever the heck that is already collected to your things I can't I got one for 2010 golden thats it thats a favorite because people have decided that would let you know you can be to speed of light uh you can send information instantaneously it's true the quantum entanglement does involve teenies changes in the state of particles a great distance but it's also true that I'm Stein seems to be right it doesn't allow you to transmit information faster than the speed of light lymphangitis too bad I just was one question came up about what the range of radio waves for radio signal should be what I found was that narrow band signals could have a range of thousands of light years depends on the power to transmitter in the size you received this note range limits mean I've seen in the literature many times people who take some unknown source think I know what you're saying but after about a light year to any reasonable transmitter that the signal would disappear into the background noise of the universe will have some background you can always tease out that signal if you want to go to picking up into a meeting right hehehe you light up my eyes my eyes have a nice to have an aperture quarter financial whatever it is but that's good enough to pick up light coming to me for me to wake from Star right and butter pretty feet start I can see that are either people to faint just trying to have to do so I can see that you can always always be to rap by building a bigger instrument thank you for emerging from the podcast EE 37th Street on Saidi appreciate you always being on hand my pleasure anytime next time religion comes up in the context to Saidi let me know I'll do take care Seth.<br /> <br /> == Science or Fiction &lt;small&gt;(1:02:18)&lt;/small&gt; ==<br /> [http://primaryfacts.com/408/amazon-river-facts-and-information/ Item #1]: Although not the longest river in the world, the Amazon is the biggest, containing more water than the next 10 largest rivers combined.<br /> [http://www.livescience.com/6426-reality-river-monsters.html Item #2]: Although not the threat often portrayed in film, schools of red-bellied piranha will occasionally feed on large animals and are responsible for about 20 human deaths per year. <br /> [http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/fish.html Item #3]: The Amazon contains more fish species than the Atlantic Ocean.<br /> <br /> can you tell me which one is it take we have a steam this week the team is the Amazon River 23 pakadi Amazon River you guys ready yet we go I remember one thing longest river in the world the Amazon is the biggest containing more water in the next 10 largest rivers combined hangover 2 although im not a threat open for trade in film schools of red belly piranha will occasionally feet on large animals are responsible for about 22 min deaths per year and I am Number 3 the Amazon contains more fish species in the Atlantic Ocean Evan go first alright the first one in regards to it not being the longest river in the world the next 10 largest rivers combined that's the Nile nylon not sure about that one what about the red belly piranhas case we feeding on large animals to humans 20 min just for u I don't see a problem with that show my ways does bachata Portrane reality you in lots of ways from ac maybe one maybe not I'm feeling that this one is correct and then there's the last one more fish species in the Amazon in the entire Atlantic Ocean have to think on that that's the case ocean has one life in it but I'll lie that life is not fish species things going there I'm going to say it being the biggest river containing more water in the next 10 largest rivers that's the fiction ok a Bobb about dumb just fishin Atlantic Ocean the Amazon goes two ways a rainforest and I know the rainforest has a credible biological diversity and perhaps I could kind of can you still over as well ah but still it that sounds pretty bold more fish species Cindy Lane Goshen Corona yeah I feel a cation and large animals for 20 years never heard that hard I would I would think number one of the other biggest word in the 10 largest confined to see that fish did I'm going to go with the other garage okay okay what about the Amazon being the biggest I don't know much about how wide it is insured berries in parts in any BS that of course have to to take into account how deep it is a surprise in there it is possible for 20 Yuma desi year I have no reason to believe that if anyone has seen the movie pron paranahs Shack in front of their dead leader angry and they know what they're doing something that scares Ellie Drive movie in 3d yes they do you receive a good look at their facebook but I don't know man is trying to not good enough I was the last one about the Amazon contain more fish species in the Atlantic Ocean doubt that I could see more variation for some reason being in the Amazon okay that's gonna leave me to be to saying that the first one about the largest river in the world Amazon and Rebecca I'm torn between the first if I could totally play the damn son has fish finders fee Amazon for so many other two equally ugly people think I could believe that the Amazon is the biggest I feel like it's it up there in terms of being a long as it gets like second shirt Niles Indiana to get more water the next 10 Rana's there's no way they could be responsible for 20 deaths a year right like the have a reputation but as cheaply did out everyday Shinkansen films and did some certain ok sweet Lea AGS actuated there's no way to take Elijah to conception is the train is too I'm going to go to Corona one I don't think they kill 20 people a year okay so we got Bob Rebecca trying to Jane Evans with the biggest river into all agree that the Amazon contains more fish species in the Atlantic Ocean you all think that want to sign that one is science that's awesome but just barely I read that fact and then I tried to verify it and it seems to be true although I did find one source that says that they're the same b****** 3050 sees ok to be pretty consistent in the references I found that the Amazon River Basin River has about three thousand different species I could find reliable numbers for the Atlantic Ocean Sam said less than the Amazon some said the same but it's probably a moving target anyway cause they're in the middle of a big survey and they're finding more fish species ok that been five years that may not be true anymore but if anything works pieces in the Sun to pick up but for right now that what is sin number one of those not the longest river in the world Amazon is the biggest containing more water than the next 10 largest rivers combined Jane ever you think this one is the fiction and this one is science oh yeah baby yeah very surprised you knew it was big but it really is really big fish the Amazon releases more than 200,000 cubic meters of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean show on a train 630 South America pretty much it does it is about 4,000 miles or 6400 climate urs long 321 Nile is a little bit longer so that is also controversial and you know depends on how you measure it and said they may swap places wanted to know what were the years has different measurements how to right now the official measurement of the Nile to the little bit longer but the Amazon is bigger it has its wider usually between 1 to 5 miles wide on average it's much bigger when it floods when you're doing when he wanted to go over closing it 20 miles wide faces well yeah that's what I was saying I didn't know how wide are deep is the most variable figure that I have read every source I break a bit different number for the number of tributaries at the Amazon has a sound and it seems to be about the average 1000 1100 1700 505 yeah but I think it probably somewhere around $1000 so true because I guess it depends on how big you count of how big a tributary do you count and maybe in dry shoes in the dryer does the rainforest even have a dry season ah it's wet and weather radar actual dry season I mean variance down to the very thing that is don't know that we call it a dry season um 50 Amazon River so big that it is can support freshwater dolphins sisters difference between a dolphin send a nerd the largest species of river dolphins the motto is there and also the Anaconda course which is the largest snake and many species of Corona so the number to another threat fish species including dolphins for you you know that was number 3 was about fish species of the river not rated film streams red belly piranha location large animals are responsible for about 20 human deaths per year that is fiction show now the red belly piranha are the most aggressive species of Corona and they do sometimes I feed in large schools and they can't get into what is called a feeding frenzy which is what you see you know in the movies went all the waters it was disrupted is the Fisher eating in a frenzy fashion show prana mostly each other fish staples we plan to leave Chris stations and they will scavenge anything baby meat falls into River il happily skeletonize it shut the notion that one source that said that it was Teddy Roosevelt who made the observation that he saw school Corona skeletonized a cow 102 minutes or something that's not probably not really sure I would take a lot longer you need a massive amount 601 expert estimated like 300 fish in order to pull that off and that she get on this date don't usually go after healthy living large animals so if you're swimming in the Amazon they probably will stay away from you did bad worst you make it a bite if they're just sending their nest but they won't try to eat you the crocodile swell crocodiles well I could not find a single documented Schuman death from chronic haha really yeah I know I've sources Ferry on this I couldn't find any reliable source that says yes to the documented Tempe I got the Union the river by Prince there are naked Villagers claims that they put their happened to see if you have an open wound blood lab solutely attract when a product like going after the wounded in the den the dead and injured in the dining room don't like going after healthy animal so you may not want to wait into the Nile with the Lakeland so um get into the notion that you know if you go swimming in the in the Amazon did you run across school prom in adults we do should have bones his son is a myth that is a cinema its all G bones Jones hey does a good job I been Rebecca thank you enjoy for week yet I will<br /> <br /> == Skeptical Quote of the Week &lt;small&gt;(1:13:48)&lt;/small&gt; ==<br /> <br /> so Jay, you got a quote for us this week? Huh and I wasn't invited Mr names Chris would disclose written invited man a poet named William Butler Yeats is Irish poet 20 century hey buddy yeah ah okay okay recognize named affect you more than you did<br /> <br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.&lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> B: yeah my iphone is like that<br /> <br /> J: William Butler Yeats!<br /> <br /> alright thanks Jay thank you for joining me this week everyone to use thank you Dr a lot of fun is always busy show me in till next week this is your skeptics' guide to the universe<br /> <br /> {{Outro404}}<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> {{Navigation}}</div>

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