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SGU Episode 851
October 30th 2021
851 parasite-fish-tongue.jpg
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SGU 850                      SGU 852

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

C: Cara Santa Maria

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Quote of the Week

In many cases, flawed or misleading evidence is worse than no evidence at all. This is because the state of ignorance resulting from a lack of evidence is recognized as a state of ignorance, whereas the state of ignorance resulting from misleading evidence is not so recognized.

Vance Berger and Sunny Alperson, biostatistician and nurse practioner, resp.

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Introduction

Voice-over: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

COVID-19 Update (2:35)

What’s the Word? (15:43)

News Items

S:

B:

C:

J:

E:

(laughs) (laughter) (applause) [inaudible]

Creepy Parasite (22:27)

Lab Grown Coffee (31:55)

Organoid Research (41:45)

Conspiracies and COVID (53:55)

Death by Exorcism (1:00:37)

Who's That Noisy? (1:08:55)


New Noisy (1:12:46)

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Announcements (1:13:19)

Questions/Emails/Corrections/Follow-ups (1:13:57)

_consider_using_block_quotes_for_emails_read_aloud_in_this_segment_ with_reduced_spacing_for_long_chunks –

Email #1: Peak Uranium

Science or Fiction (1:27:07)

Answer Item
Fiction Gilles de Rais
Science Japanese spider crab
Science
Cotard's syndrome
Host Result
Steve win
Rogue Guess
Jay
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Evan
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Bob
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Cara
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Theme: Creepy Science

Item #1: The Japanese spider crab has the largest leg span of any arthropod at over 12 feet (3.7 meters).[6]
Item #2: Cotard’s syndrome is a neurological disorder in which people believe they are dead and their body is rotting, they often refuse to eat and in some cases request to be taken to the morgue.[7]
Item #3: Lieutenant General Gilles de Rais, who served under General Washington during the revolutionary war, was later convicted of raping and dismembering over a hundred children (although the exact number is unknown) and was ultimately hanged for his crimes.[8]

Jay's Response

Evan's Response

Bob's Response

Cara's Response

Steve Explains Item #2

Steve Explains Item #1

Steve Explains Item #3

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:47:11)

In many cases, flawed or misleading evidence is worse than no evidence at all. This is because the state of ignorance resulting from a lack of evidence is recognized as a state of ignorance, whereas the state of ignorance resulting from misleading evidence is not so recognized.

– Vance Berger and Sunny Alperson, biostatistician and nurse practioner, respectively, from their paper, "A General Framework for the Evaluation of Clinical Trial Quality"[9]

Signoff (1:48:20)

S: —and until next week, this is your Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.

[blood-curdling scream sound]

S: Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, dedicated to promoting science and critical thinking. For more information, visit us at theskepticsguide.org. Send your questions to info@theskepticsguide.org. And, if you would like to support the show and all the work that we do, go to patreon.com/SkepticsGuide and consider becoming a patron and becoming part of the SGU community. Our listeners and supporters are what make SGU possible.

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Today I Learned

  • Fact/Description, possibly with an article reference[10]
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Notes

References

  1. ↑ Phys.org: Parasite that replaces a fish's tongue caught at Texas state park
  2. ↑ Smithsonian Magazine: Lab-Grown Coffee Passes Taste Test
  3. ↑ Science-Based Medicine: Mini-Brains for Disease Research
  4. ↑ ScienceAlert.com: People Who Believe COVID Conspiracies More Likely to Test Positive, Study Confirms
  5. ↑ The Times of Israel: Woman dies in apparent exorcism; sheikh, doctor and husband arrested
  6. ↑ Wikipedia: Japanese spider crab
  7. ↑ Psychiatry: A Case Report of Cotard’s Syndrome
  8. ↑ Wikipedia: Gilles de Rais
  9. ↑ Reviews on recent clinical trials: A General Framework for the Evaluation of Clinical Trial Quality
  10. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]

Vocabulary

  1. ↑ Wiktionary: Chirality
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