SGU Episode 423 - Revision history

David CO2: /* Interview with Sanal Edamaruku () */

2018-11-29T14:53:01Z

Interview with Sanal Edamaruku ()

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	J: Right.		J: Right.

	SE: It's law. So I agreed and I remained in Delhi and I started appearing in television programs to talk about the same case and the way I was handled, spoke about other gurus also, about miracle mongering of Catholic church. I've been in some twenty television programs during this time. But meantime, my lawyer suggested that I should go for an "Anticipatory Bail Application." Which means I've only one real legal remedy. Before they arrest comes, I can get an "Anticipatory Bail," then I cannot be arrested. But if I'm arrested, it's non-bailable.		SE: "It's law." So I agreed and I remained in Delhi and I started appearing in television programs to talk about the same case and the way I was handled, spoke about other gurus also, about miracle mongering of Catholic church. I've been in some twenty television programs during this time. But meantime, my lawyer suggested that I should go for an "Anticipatory Bail Application." Which means I've only one real legal remedy. Before they arrest comes, I can get an "Anticipatory Bail," then I cannot be arrested. But if I'm arrested, it's non-bailable.

	J: Right.		J: Right.
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	E: Sure.		E: Sure.

	S: Well, Sanal, thank you for sitting down with us and for everything you're doing. It's wonderful. Thanks.		S: Well, Sanal, thank you so much for sitting down with us and for everything you're doing. It's wonderful. Thanks.

	SE: Good. Thank you for the discussion.		SE: Good. Thank you for the discussion.

David CO2: /* Interview with Sanal Edamaruku () */

2018-11-29T14:31:34Z

Interview with Sanal Edamaruku ()

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	J: No, no. It's dripping...		J: No, no. It's dripping...

	S: No. Crying and it's flowing through the body and then dripping on the feet.		SE: No. Crying and it's flowing through the body and then dripping on the feet.

	J: He cries a lot, Steve. A lot of tears.		J: He cries a lot, Steve. A lot of tears.
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	J: [...] caused some problems.		J: [...] caused some problems.

	S: Quite a lot. Quite a lot, to be distributed to a thousand people basically every day.		SE: Quite a lot. Quite a lot, to be distributed to a thousand people basically every day.

	J: And they were ingesting it, right?		J: And they were ingesting it, right?

David CO2: /* Interview with Sanal Edamaruku () */

2018-11-29T14:27:59Z

Interview with Sanal Edamaruku ()

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	S: From "Hacking the Planet," of course former editor of "Scientific American." So Sanal is the founder and president of "The Rationalists International" the president of "The Indian Rationalist Association." You were on the show before talking about your tantric killing challenge, which made you not only a celebrity in your own country of India, but really an international celebrity especially among skeptics and rationalists, and your problems have not ceased since then. People are still trying to kill you. Tell us about that.		S: From "Hacking the Planet," of course former editor of "Scientific American." So Sanal is the founder and president of "The Rationalists International" the president of "The Indian Rationalist Association." You were on the show before talking about your tantric killing challenge, which made you not only a celebrity in your own country of India, but really an international celebrity especially among skeptics and rationalists, and your problems have not ceased since then. People are still trying to kill you. Tell us about that.

	SE: Well, the Tantra Challenge has, in a way, helped me a lot to expand my horizon. The Indian Television [...] of course we had a presence earlier, but that has given new dimensions and a lot of new viewers that have seen our programs. And it has been going very well, I mean, I have been on television on an average some 200 times in a year for the last ~~for~~ years, and in most of the time I would be meeting directly face to face with some astrologers, some tantrics, some gurus, some holy men, and all ended with their careers diminishing after that. And this was quite a successful process which was going on. Eventually, I mean this has given a kind of scare amongst a lot of people and developed a lot of efforts to stop me. But because of my popularity, things were not that easy.		SE: Well, the Tantra Challenge has, in a way, helped me a lot to expand my horizon. The Indian Television [...] of course we had a presence earlier, but that has given new dimensions and a lot of new viewers that have seen our programs. And it has been going very well, I mean, I have been on television on an average some 200 times in a year for the last four years, and in most of the time I would be meeting directly face to face with some astrologers, some tantrics, some gurus, some holy men, and all ended with their careers diminishing after that. And this was quite a successful process which was going on. Eventually, I mean this has given a kind of scare amongst a lot of people and developed a lot of efforts to stop me. But because of my popularity, things were not that easy.

	Last year, there was a miracle in a Mumbai church. It's not, interestingly, not [...] the Hindu holy men, I mean, who belong to the majority community of India, who were after my life, but when I exposed this miracle in Mumbai that turned totally different.		Last year, there was a miracle in a Mumbai church. It's not, interestingly, not [...] the Hindu holy men, I mean, who belong to the majority community of India, who were after my life, but when I exposed this miracle in Mumbai that turned totally different.

David CO2: /* Interview with Sanal Edamaruku () */

2018-11-29T14:25:08Z

Interview with Sanal Edamaruku ()

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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''

== This Day in Skepticism () ==
* August 24, 79: Mt. Vesuvius erupted

== News Items ==
=== No Proof of Creation ()===
* http://guardianlv.com/2013/08/lead-creationist-says-no-scientific-proof-of-intelligent-design/

=== Area 51 ()===
* http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/area-51-revealed/

=== Hydrating Beer ()===
* http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/news/news-in-australia/australian-scientists-brew-up-hydrating-beer.htm

=== Indian Rationalist Shot Dead ()===
* http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/anti-superstition-activist-narendra-dabholkar-shot-dead-in-pune-407920

=== Free Roaming Planets ()===
* http://phys.org/news/2013-08-free-floating-planets-born-free.html

== Who's That Noisy? ()==
* Answer to last week: QH4

== Questions and Emails () ==
=== Question 1: Sugar and Hyperactivity ()===
<blockquote>Recently I was listening to one of Steven Novella’s lectures from The Great Courses regarding sugar and its effect on children. Basically he said there’s no correlation between the two. I found this surprising and happened to mention it to a registered dietician who said the recent scientific studies have shown a link. Further, she mention the physiology of the body implies a natural effect of simple carbohydrates on the body. She also mentioned that many studies on this subject have been funded by the sugar industry and therefore implies a conflict of interest. I would appreciate it if you could cite the studies were Prof. Novella has obtained his information. Thanks Mike Cottrill Ontario, Canada</blockquote>

== Interview with Sanal Edamaruku () ==
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/sanal-edamaruku-indian-rationalist-weeping-christ-miracle-hoax-faces-jail_n_2201897.html

== Science or Fiction () ==
[http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352601/description/Blood_marker_may_predict_suicide Item #1]: Scientists have identified a blood test that can identify those at increased risk for suicide.
[http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/10090/global-sea-level-rise-dampened-australia-floods Item #2]: A recent study finds that heavy rains in Australia over 2010-2011 actually caused global sea levels to drop measurably.
[http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2013/august/unscrambling-the-genetics-of-the-chickens-blue-egg.aspx Item #3]: Breeders have produced a variety of chicken that lays cholesterol-free eggs.

== Skeptical Quote of the Week () ==
<blockquote>It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.</blockquote>

Edmund Way Teale in ’Circle of the Seasons’, quoted by Carl Sagan in ’The Demon-haunted World’

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