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== News Items ==
== News Items ==
=== Item 1 <small>()</small>===
=== Item 1 <small>(1.47)</small>===
=== Item 2 <small>(4.50)</small>===
=== Item 3 <small>(17.30)</small>===


Most Distant Galaxy Discovered    http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1089817820070710


Steorn Perpetual Motion Machine Fails    http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/default.asp?Display=132


Salt Water Fuel    http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/default.asp?Display=133
== Questions and Emails <small>(28.47)</small> ==
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kKtKSEQBeI
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55934
 
 
== Questions and Emails <small>()</small> ==
=== Question 1 Scientology and Homocide  <small>(FYI. You may have got this story in the States, but just in case it didn't reach you. Unfortunately these loonies exist in Australia too! Unbelievable.
 
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/scientologists-flat-earthers/2007/07/10/1183833476294.html
 
Love the podcast.
 
Regards
 
Rachael
Australia/Sydney)</small>===


== Interview with "Scott Lilienfield" <small>()</small> ==
== Interview with "Scott Lilienfield" <small>()</small> ==

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SGU Episode 103
11th July 2007
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SGU 102                      SGU 104

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

R: Rebecca Watson

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Guest

SL: Scott Lilienfield

Quote of the Week

There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings

Nietzsche

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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism ()

News Items

Item 1 (1.47)

Item 2 (4.50)

Item 3 (17.30)

Questions and Emails (28.47)

Interview with "Scott Lilienfield" ()

Scott Lilienfield is a professor of psychology at Emory Univeristy and the Editor of The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice: http://www.srmhp.org/

Lead Editor for: Science and Psuedoscience in Clinical Psychology http://www.amazon.com/Science-Pseudoscience-Clinical-Psychology-Lilienfeld/dp/customer-reviews/1572308281

Science or Fiction ()

Question #1 Boiled hair taken from the mane of a lion.

Question #2 Coffee made from coffee beans taken from the feces of a civet - a small cat-like mammal.

Question #3 Goat cheese deliberately infested with maggots


Skeptical Puzzle ()

This Week's Puzzle:

A dog in Romania
A vulture in Chile
A fox in China
A bear in Iceland
A boar in Greece
A buffalo in America

Identify the psuedoscientific pattern.

Last Week's puzzle:

In 1967, a famous building was attacked. The attackers attempted to use supernatural abilities to drive out its evil spirits, and to disfigure and displace the building with its occupants inside. The attack failed.

Name the building.

Answer: Pentagon
Winner: Fernanda

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

"There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings." Friedrich Nietzsche



S: The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by the New England Skeptical Society in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation. For more information on this and other episodes, please visit our website at www.theskepticsguide.org. Please send us your questions, suggestions, and other feedback; you can use the "Contact Us" page on our website, or you can send us an email to info@theskepticsguide.org'. 'Theorem' is produced by Kineto and is used with permission.


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