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== Introduction ==<br />
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''<br />
== News Items <small>()</small> ==<br />
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=== Edgar Mitchell on UFO's <small>()</small> ===<br />
* www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=87905&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&rpc=23&videoChannel=1&sp=true<br/>www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24070088-13762,00.html<br/><br/><br/><br />
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=== UFO's and Terrorism <small>()</small> ===<br />
* www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29pope.html?_r=1&oref=login<br/><br/><br/><br />
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=== Gas from Garbage <small>()</small> ===<br />
* www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/business/24fuel.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogin<br/><br />
== Name That Logical Fallacy <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Logical Fallacies<br />
<blockquote>I am an avid follower of 'House' and have heard him say 'The treatment will confirm the diagnosis.' This is apparently known as a diagnosis ex juvantibus. Is this an example of 'post hoc ergo propter hoc' reasoning? If a treatment is reasonably specific, the reasoning seems sound, yet it seems suspicious. Where am I going wrong?<br/><br/>Anders Starmark<br/></blockquote><br />
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== Interview with Banachek <small>()</small> ==<br />
* http://www.banachek.org/nonflash/index.htm<br/><br/>Banachek is a premiere mentalist and scourge of those who would use mentalism to fake 'psychic' powers. He discusses his experiences as a mentalist, as a subject of the Alpha Project where he fooled scientists into thinking he had real powers, and his history with Uri Geller.<br />
== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==<br />
Question #1: A new report warns travelers to the Beijing Olympics that the most common illnesses contracted by visitors are malaria and dengue fever.<br />
Question #2: New research shows that free radicals are used to signal satiety in the brain, suggesting that anti-oxidants may increase appetite.<br />
Question #3: NASA's Cassini probe has confirmed for the first time surface liquid on a body other than earth - an ethane lake on the surface of Titan.<br />
== Skeptical Quote of the Week <small>()</small> ==<br />
<blockquote>“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.” - Henri Poincaré</blockquote><br />
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