SGU Episode 373

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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism ()

September 8, 1966 - First Trek Episode Airs

News Items

Blue Moon Lunacy ()

http://www.livescience.com/22817-blue-moon-madness-myths.html

Bigfoot News ()

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/montana-man-trying-to-create-bigfoot-sighting-in-ghillie-suit-struck-and-killed-by-cars/2012/08/27/a9739d20-f0b5-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_story.html

Negative Replication of Psi ()

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-power-of-replication-bems-psi-research/

Baldness Cure ()

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9485807/Baldness-cure-could-be-on-shelves-in-two-years.html

Little Mass from Higgs ()

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/08/99-of-the-mass-of-the-visible-universe-not-explained-by-cerns-discovery-of-higgs-boson.html

UFO Over Illuminati Castle ()

http://beforeitsnews.com/unexplained-phenomena/2012/08/ufo-hovers-over-illuminati-castle-in-germany-3-different-angles-videos-2430254.html

Interview with Billy West ()

Talented voice actor Billy West, who does the voices of Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Renn and Stimpy, and other.

Science or Fiction ()

Item number one. Scientists have discovered Western Scrub Jays performing a funeral-like behavior when they discover one of their members has died. Item number two. A recent study finds that adults are more likely to accept a supernatural explanation than children. Item number three. Researchers find that the shape of the glass affects how drunk alcohol-drinkers become.

Live Q&A

SGU FAQ ()

Frequently asked questions at live events.

Homeopath pharmacist ()

What to when your pharmacist recommend homeopathy?

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity ()

Is it real?

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

J: Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620

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