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| 11th August 2012 |
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| S: Steven Novella |
B: Bob Novella |
R: Rebecca Watson |
J: Jay Novella |
E: Evan Bernstein |
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. |
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Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
Your skate today is Wednesday August 18 2012 is your host Bella Bella everybody watching Hannah Jane Velez you burn see everyone
This Day in Skepticism (0:27)
- August 11, 3114 BCE - In the Gregorian calendar was the universal creation date used by several pre-Columbian meso-American cultures like the Mayans. That is the start of the calendar that many dummies fear ends on December 20, 2012.
hey happy birthday to the universe everything over 14 to cart send me know exactly what they started well we know what day at several pre-columbian Mesoamerican cultures like the Mayans started keeping track of the date seriously 369 episodes guiding people skeptically to the uterus and no card haha seriously remind okay so I'll get 11 3114 BC Ian Gregory in calendar that was the date when the American Long Count calendar began and it's probably most famous to the season 5 cast as the calendar that everybody freaked out because they think it ends on December 20th 2012 course it doesn't actually ended much the same way that you were annual calendar ends at December 31st just picked up again the next day with a new calendar but a lot of people from assuming that the Mayans had somehow predicted that the entire universe would end but that's the day it all started Jameson 11 August 11 3114 BC alright yeah I'm pretty universal did you know that you share a birthday with universe birthday crazy I think happy birthday don't get sued doesn't really get any more b***** not thank you happy birthday to you happy birthday Jay I am I I'm 44 guys wow that's a double deaf culture for right now to die today. Lucky don't sleep in a room at the fan running OK do for my birthday like what's up what's the surprise this year well idk ass turns out surprise happy hour right away is your birthday present I think you should get to guess is on science fiction okay done ah really sucks guys if I bail awesome epic fail sounds like a present but its really not because you had to guess wrong you're a loser exact solution
News Items
Dino Mating (3:16)
I have something that will cheer me up from dream your back is hurting me on my birthday that is Rebecca have a question for you okay how did 30 town animals larger than say of four or five story building have sex very carefully hahaha directions example to illustrate what were getting at here Email to rent a Saurus Rex weight about 5 times in this email was even bigger so add something a sore throat work much bigger than the dress or structures try it out there sleep tight just trying to figure out how they had sex with physicians what they do it and well to to cook Dr sexy time they did it doggystyle got one question is having sex you gotta answer the question how big was it 12 feet long for 12 feet long as she probably said it was 13 just leaving the believe that they did it doggy style because of a few different things one of them that they were observed add largest land based mammals and those those animals have sex from behind and after root buing them doing it there's reasons why they needed to do it down to its the only way to take an adjuster body so they could actually make me like a magination here but I'm not sure what the other option would be the other options doggy style or something because I'm sure either way they were doing it in the doggy style position but there are some sites that believed that most if not all dinosaurs had to do in water to the smaller the small GRP tights big one had to do in water to get an assistant in the figure this out this is like basketball Twitter crocodiles and crocodiles with user points each to get in position interview you might not know the crocodiles don't actually insert a penis actually just drop seat so well I even still date each other is like kind of like it doggy style position going on a date to see interesting point here that is called a oxbow lake ice tea to know about clickers oh yeah I have to print it took the primitive orifice use for urination defecation and calculations I was like we have yeah there is still a lot of sites that don't agree to know dat science jokes crazy scientist really want to get to the truth to the debate each other about it but for the most part of the the consensus is that they did it doggy style and another interesting thing I found out was that it's really hard to determine the sex of dinosaurs for a couple of reasons one because we can observe them so we don't have your other big thing is that we just have bones you don't have any soft tissue without socks tissue there's a lot of information that were missing only really take a look for heart issue yo you almost got me a message to be some difference in the skeletal structures of having three of you knowing the female in the mail and then you could did you can find features I can tell you but if you're in traffic stinks the story on the skulls and how would you know the pelvis but the shoeman sushi or so big not necessarily difference for a dinosaur Steve I did read it they found the differences in certain types of dinosaurs but but they really don't 100 percent say that it's fact because its case is your name I have like 12 global samples like okay sure to tell the differences but not big enough number to really say for a fact yes there's definite difference here there's a lot of other things like correlate I told her I really don't have that much information to gain about about the eye dissection I think you is male and female here and there but just in a lot of data yeah the one that was interesting so that means all the largest dinosaur species had to live within walking distance of a large body of water to help to make that's what they say how much better with the respective was more land lakes everywhere is true radiotion in the desert crazy for animals to migrate arches imagine the great migration to the lake haha here's the pictures article our card price LASIK class expressions they put put these human face when I said it did it really makes the images look ridiculously funny I recommend anyone that's listening to this go to art go to the skeptics guide Autoworks I click on the link to the show and look at these incredibly funny drawings of people came up with or just google Dino porn you go right to it does a good time to bring up the fact that we have started a skeptic's guide Instagram account on Instagram and how we will be have been for a couple of dozen posting pictures relevant to the show on Instagram to follow along with any image is the reason for the show Hans will have some dinero sex pictures on screen black horse and the states in progress
Blowing Up Asteroids (9:02)
Phys.org: Armageddon looming? Bruce Willis couldn't save us from asteroid doom (Update)
YouTube: Map of Nuclear Explosions on the Earth from 1945-1998
Bob time you going to tell us why Bruce Willis would have failed to save the Earth from my phone because if you insist Remember the movie Armageddon right pretty cool movie I tried to forget it but yeah I felt when I blow it up in preventing elee or extinction level event on earth but away since I'm a missing movies on ideally that's deep impact find any fish from the movie they let that she took a specific details from the movie Armageddon I need to turn something that you probably already knew that is no damn way that we could blow it up and save the earth the way that it's done in a movie but still need for you to stop at Pt physicist but I checked all the calculations in there correct and that of course is a lie but they are 4th year masters of physics students at Leicester University in a published articles in the university someone tongue in cheek Journal of special 26 topics and I just love the name to the papers that came out to the one of my screen Bruce Willis save the world and the other one was Bruce Willis predict the end of the world what did was a treat a formula to determine the total amount of kinetic energy were the energy of motion needed to stay and asteroid specifically the extra in a movie to SD into to have both pieces mysterious cause I didn't really remember that but the people that were yeah in the movie that they are straight up into two pieces kind of just missed your tonight I think I kind of forgot about that but it's kind of mostly just blew up I didn't know that sucks yeah I did David Booty the two big pieces when was really close to the earth think about to hit it to pieces went to either side earth to you really didn't have to blow to my heart okay I'll remember that yeah W the highly unlikely Houston area they were going so excited for the bottom line is essentially we don't have a bomb nearly big enough to do the job in the movie in fact the bomb would have to be a billion times bigger than the biggest bomb ever made you choose to be huge so what is up on you ask go ahead very good that did big Ivy Norris Orangethorpe on my phone but I'm not sure you pronounce it is still by the Soviet Union and dedicated the day before Halloween in 1961 amazing head up high yield of 50 megaton to 50 million tons of TNT and I didn't I didn't know that Steve did you know this designed to be a hundred megatons but they purposely tempted for two reasons the first one is at da to reduce a nuclear fallout between have been extensive if this thing went off and it would have literally stewed a more radio radiation into the atmosphere like 25 percent of the total atmosphere that ever gonna leave in the aperture October 25 percent off 50 50 so why would that why would doubling it make it to make such a difference a day made it very fishy and see for a biotic the line piece of a good lead that accident told me that cut the yield in half the other interesting thing that they did get a reason why didn't do what you said you would actually did have destroyed to drop the truck is dropped a hundred version the plane but actually Penn State a rise in the yard pilot I don't think that would have been very happy they were going to go on a suicide mission very good reasons why they had to do that but that's it actually could very easy to make the atmosphere that you're just a created the atmosphere is this disturbance actually orbit the Earth 3 times You staying down to cause any problems but still it lasted three were to the earth and I found a really out of service I go weather well kind of meeting going into the tracked it on three times a somebody went to the ground zero described it as the ground surface of the island has been leveled swept and licked so that it looks like a skating rink it was like almost perfectly smooth e they couldn't believe it is I just sing into a little bit contact Hiroshima bomb in about 15 2013 teach me that look like look like a total fire cracker is the point obviously that was said Armageddon asteroid would laugh at Ivan add it into did did you determine that you would need eight hundred trillion Tara jewels or yeah I hate 11800 ya to Jules case we can you use that word tons and tons of energy for the live in the produce 416,000 Tara jewels um is sick it's not nearly enough that I could have 52 so what's to be with me not to get on but we would need a pet a ton nuclear weapon and if you really want to crack is asteroid to help Wikipedia great quote describing what a pet a ton bondage they said that it did you see restricted taxonomical events such as meteor impacts were large science fiction weapons ban Yeah Yeah right um actually actually no but does not a bad guess I'll tell you about a magnet to 12 earthquake which is because a 12 yr quick as possible in New York is no fault in a big enough to create anything more than a 10 to 12 just like a redneck would be immense ah another a another comparison would be a 60 Columbia meteorite hitting the earth at 25 kilometers per second I shoot you too much kinetic energy in here and um another way to say it would be about five thousand times more energetic than the meteorite that that wiped out the dinosaurs so just a huge huge as you can imagine I noticed it would create a crater create a creator bigger than United States 5000 5000 miles wide and of course all life would be wiped out it except maybe bacteria but I suspect it even they would be I complete on the way I just thinking tire services near the beach I know when we don't use the first nuclear explosion of you guys see the YouTube videos look at which is a map of nuclear explosions on Earth from 1945 yeah that was cool where on the receipt ocean current which country was responsible for 1650 you surprised by what you saw house for the how many nuclear explosions phones been stolen the earth in last 50 years has a lot the US is over a thousand nuclear weapons to a lot how to link to that on the condition that big for quite a while I thought I was thinking I would if we magically happen right now been here since you're the bomb it wouldn't matter because it turns out it is asteroid if you're going to get a really want to blow this thing up this actually would have to be split ironically at the moment or technology would allow was to detect it so the moment What are best telescope to determine a disaster even existed we have to blow it up break it in there otherwise it would be too close this is like a horrible news item this is not the way that we would deflect now I know this is not the way to do it is so many other way to my favorites TIA gravity tractor I did we park at the station nearby and have a full kind of changes again you have to take the sting very soon and get there very fast if you want to do it takes a lot of time and as usual the movie was far far off but still you know what effect does purge a medical fact yes not signed to the galaxy
Punching for God (17:20)
tell us about the preacher who punches people for got me wet No way over this is the one of those things that you really don't believe it when you first hear it like it has to be a pawn onion came up with it or it'll parody you're lost this is real to meet pastor Todd Bentley of the fresh fire ministries of Florida to meet at like Hello army doesn't NBA team I'm about to give you a chance to meet and ET okay 836 about 650 438 a 25 pound a former Hells Angels biker gang sexually assaulted 815 discovered fundamental Christianity at age 18 an eclipse with heeled doesn't the people of their deadly diseases in serious injuries by doing things like Oh kicking them in the face and punching them in their area sandy them in their absence search rated is the preachers in a revivalist style getting up for very large audiences what is a concert in Canadia don't play much for this week yeah well you're 40 right is Canadian so this share him apart the world actually like he he hates people yeah well here let me let me let me tell you about it and I'll get to the Google come back to the point in just a minute because I said so really because you I will think about Todd Bentley is he likes tell stories lots of stories I mean he comes up a story to make the Bible look like scientific journal that that's the kind of stories he tells the story but these revival said he organized and still doesn't know where is largest 10,000 people at a time true believers packages 10 to the time to see his first 5 weeks of transmitting show via a million viewers in 2008 you preach like to audiences totally over 40,000 people so this person has influence and reach I had to leave for a while after ABC didn't expose on him and he kinda had to retreat to the shadows Shelly stay for a little while and he's going back on a tour and ice trying to do I bring her to the United his messages called holy inspiration and dad kicking in Eagan for this reason many people in the United Kingdom are pressuring their leaders to ban is intended visit to their country later this month and uh member parliament nothing lyrics official erase issue or problem see if I keep an eye out of doing his dick over in the United Kingdom get to the brass tacks really like people and you're getting hurt well let me tell you a quote Jay from him directly this is this is Sandra Kerr want to hear it from his own okay so here we go I want you to pumpkin in the sternum is hard as you can in a broken sternum long story short answer the broken sternum a sealed the ribs were healed instantly instantly with the punch holy s*** think I should be in jail for that he's actually listening to say to someone in a broken sternum hurt him of cancer usually that's his claim that is a broken bone that he has to punch to kill you yeah it's true what is the answer to the sternum and if you did never broken sternum William has cancer cured look now you question the power of God I don't know that's really why's place to turn a guy yeah well it looks like a plan is the user stories of s*** I could not find anything to correlate corroborated stories geez not really a saturated sex videos in punching people there is video of him making contact with people Steve kicking them and you know what could be called what is in such of light Manor real that you barely need to touch these people who are in the throes of gyration of the healing power of the Lord up on stage of people are really physically gyrating themselves battleship King occurrence that happens a lot of times with these pictures to get them all with the frenzy a hand on your forehead like to see top of another stupid kind of push them over to you give you a little poke in the eye in the rich Hil Hil kick your shins there something wrong with your leg you know if its a little tiny taboo II train martial art I know what it's like to be Punch in the head and stomach it he's from the evidence I've seen he's not really hurting people at all the steps but it sounded totally ridiculous the whole thing is ridiculous Jack got to play this for free because it is too good a little sample of what his treatment show me have to cause after like with the term sounds like your ears one example of him treating a one of his uh you know which purse. What is the weekend in the air at the person is not a full making contact with his hand healing hand of Christ in their way to steal it from the chef central emerald walking Saturday Night Live skit is a Hells Angel with a tattoo to punch people is part of the healing no service guys gets better because in December 2011 he told me he had a hand in bringing 33 people back from the dead 20% of the cases where he's cleaned medically verified so you gonna stay with time to try to put this in its proper contact this guy is such a big talker and you so so deep in his own feces when it comes to all this that's that's primarily what is he is all he's a show pony and nothing else best you're right Steve that was fun video of him doing his service in your area everything is it is just to show me that he's a comedian in his way you talk to me did we tell stories for little heel in there toilets flush on ship ship a lot of big tuck everlasting use item
Quickie with Bob: Curiosity Update (24:30)
I want a quickie wow so soon out in a while yeah well hahahaha like a dinosaur oh ok just relax and calm now why you tell me this is your quickie with Bob and take a seat haha I have to of course give a quick update about the newest denizen of Mars Curiosity rover yeah baby oh my god I was I was so happy I was so happy that things didn't crash after the service you know I trust Asadero tape on your brilliant a fantastic job search is untested I tried to raise so complicated so many different things going on even if I was really I was really nervous and not as nervous I'm sure there to pursue happy about this is just a meeting showcase of Technology hard work and other and a little luck of course super curiosity the next couple of years 30 years it will you lose its luster of scientific calculator to determine things like Mars ever had condition to the suitable for microbial life I'm heading for Mount sharp cheese to have a have had a very watery past the bottom parts of the mountain could but they determine dot com space images I did it pass is lots of water down there weeks not doing wheelies but I just hanging out while we go to a battery of diagnostic test so that we can give it a clean bill of health and it so far everything looks good and it will also and has already been sending a very cool pictures of chocolate bar me to go to the next sighting chicken out in the Russell and lots of other site so I just wanted to say congratulations national you guys totally kick some b*** and your cookie with Bob I hope it was good to see you too did you see the video of the descent I was I was disappointed with that video I was I was disappointed with that video I made a status like 7 camera HD delay Michaels they're calling the shots when I kept playing with us with the helmet with a help me camron and a camera should had two probes wanted to film it and want to actually do it billion dollars over there today to put in another hundred million dollar camera right not asking to see the whole 7 minutes of terror going to be great I know its a realistic but uh but it doesn't matter I can imagine it you can see the children away and then you see that sending that to the service and then know when the retros k can you get out of school it was awesome BBC curiosity project site is Jon Gruden ger made this comment he said you would be forgiven for thinking it was trying to pull a fast one we actually put a rover out on the hobby desert a picture to Los Angeles not coming in there uh boy really really really said that was ok smart Oaks how many on the fact that the landscape to look like to know but you really have to put it that way God I did not say flu probably chose in words yeah I want to hear the moment you know I guess I can forgive me for a does realize that every skeptic in the roads close your eyes out of that pit but you know if you think about it he's really a change in the mines what he said you believe in you you're going to be rational you can't believe it and you don't believe it a little bit of extra one of your back quote is you know if you could express to bed without the Evo king is the specter of unanswered conspiracy given the history probably do you think Joe Rogan out there that are going to turn that into something how do you say that contain a message
Occ the Skeptical Caveman (28:43)
KickStarter: Occ the skeptical caveman - A new webseries
J Scott Hoch schedule case man who is the character ah okay man is the pilot episode of a web series that we recently launched a Kickstarter for the right now we definitely have the original premises in a can of soda and you were writing feverishly writing the next 4 episode in the hopes of going to get funded particularly excited about this web series number of reasons one we did find a way to infuse schedule message schedule information in that but now we can we came up with a skeptical met any to try full of morons and he's trying to survive just trying to be honest to visit elect while driving and it's your turn to find its Rachel just shoot we really want to break in to YouTube video production more me jasons number videos in 2000 s in over the hunters haha and no man and making videos is 10 times more difficult in making doing audio more to produce a 5-6 minutes schedule for YouTube takes a month with a lot of equipment a lot of people over the years we have to put together a crew of actors and technical people people going to do all the different aspects of the filming in the Writing Center on so we have the people we have pretty writing team together George Rodrigue a writing team and we just need your support you need to find the video production and more than that me we have a goal for the Kickstarter campaign to 17,000 but that's enough to know that we need to do this web series but if we could fully funded send a msg Video Productions can do a lot more as well a lot of other video ideas as well I've written a number of episodes for more of a skeptical lecture series that I'd like to do for you to take you to be a really great venue for outreach year old I bring more people into the schedule a movement email still every week from people who say that I think about is you listen to the show what did you have any other didn't know the schedule even existed to you stumbled upon us on iTunes or maybe even started listening to was skeptical and then 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Who's That Noisy? (36:42)
- Answer to last week: Vegetable Clarinet
Thanks Steve Dr Steve sandmeyer call you talked to you in forever since no one has ever called Dr Valley here we go to say last weeks oh yeah the loneliest monk never sounded so that was kind of instrument was it off as instruments which is Clarence a special kind of clarinet this clarinet was car from a cucumber and then a pepper red pepper and cayenne peppers and green peppers ready since there are no exactly how to carve a hollow at the center you put in the better term you know what angle certain things need to be and how is your car your lifetime kind of the Guardians there evil to factor our entire symphonies consisting of special I'm on YouTube clarinet charter.net an amazing just go ahead and take a look at a lot of stuff to finish first person to get worse from Moose weed to exit was a a clarinet I didn't know that you just know that I don't know Grand Forks Herald I don't know I really appreciate someone should I go Yes thats a a cucumber Richard and I exchanged emails this because I want to inform him that he was so excited to try to get these things for years now well done congratulations okay here we go voice you may or may not be familiar with this device to collect urine during flight the really work very well 0 gravity bud really good or very well on your mind your back for you feed a failure on the way I'm fascinated your work with when where to do with cable to try to uh play next info at the skeptics guide done working is our email address so immature answering you for a min com hour to go ahead send an email
Questions and Emails
Kinesio Tape (40:20)
this week this one comes from the store called Andrew and Andrew right we email
Hi guys, Watching the London Olympics on TV I noticed many athletes, particularly swimmers and divers wearing what looked like some kind of band-aid. After a few minutes on Google I found that it is called "Kinesio tape" It seems it was invented "In the mid-1970s, Dr. Kenzo Kase was already a well-known Japanese practitioner licensed in chiropractic and acupuncture." It supposedly " Re-educate the neuromuscular system Reduce pain Optimize performance Prevent injury Promote improved circulation and healing" kinesiotaping.com. Seems like mostly woo to me...how much of modern sports medicine in science based? Perhaps this could be a topic for discussion. Keep up the good work! Andrew
you guys watching the Olympics I wish I could use where to buy 100 hot cold I think that you could say you could put on warmer peace sign um I got anything to get an injured suppose it is okay now I'm not going to watch the Olympics for years after this weekend that's a lot of diverse group of color take going to support the pattern on their back girl on your legs Meridian Pointe is supposed to do as opposed to improve performance reduce injury or help you or help in injury by 640 the muscles were proving the function of the muscles in your celebrity and waiting exclamation how it's supposed to work um sorry about it forward air on line blog Swift and do I look up published about it and of course there is not much I'm having some studies actually looking at Kinesio Taping 40 years we haven't seen much of it till this Olympics actually salmon skeptic read about this exact topic two years ago yeah Usher I've yet to see what I don't know I may have a blind eye to sing at the Olympics last time they were a bit more covered because it is the Winter Olympics yeah I saw it in Beijing and talk about it figure this s*** out and spend the night has been in the past eecu.org more minutes going to like a really dirty it's more extreme with their claims are all the different variations of it find interesting about it is that really do feel that you're getting a benefit from a very strong placebo effect I don't know about that affect is the second is the literature in its not much but there has been a few studies in a couple reviews of those studies to review return 2012 concluded that it was little Cali evidence to support the use of can you take over other types of elastic a pink in the management or prevention of sports injuries on a rolling pretty straight razor motion sensor injured cohorts where and force send Sarah compatibility for the studies are needed to confirm these findings. So essentially the good study today so it showed no difference for Noah Factor judges we just to find a very common scam in any interest let it go I devices like magnets or whatever often wrapped in some kind of bandage and essentially you get some benefit overwrapping an injured muscle does a little supported bait reduce pain need help keep the muscles warming heat content relaxed must suck to shoot people are reinventing the east and over and over again but putting some pseudo science in there in selling it for a lot more money but if I could get all the benefits text from ad: a 640 taper bandage or whatever so different with study shows that yep it's no different than any other bandage tape show on Thursday in the form of the basic physiological studies rather than the performance studies are the clinical studies whatever reason but the one that I wasn't she said yes it does have a second must return to tell if its beneficial retrieving harshly could even say that wasn't part of 22 muscle performance so there's no reason to think that it's any different to sleep then on any other tape hi and the elaborate did you know it in really hyped cleans are being made for it or not justified by anything in basic science research guys been doing this for 40 years and has it been able to put together one piece study yes you know you're going through with this is the last message that is based on nothing you know the perfect age comes up whenever you talk about any sports pseudoscience you know we're there so many things I could talk but the Power Balance bands the the little nose strips don't help either you know that can you see a taping of sleep date of course psychological studies show that the superfecta formance just eat a conference with direction does does help that's what I was talking about but I don't know that has an effect when you were talking about the peak performance of the World competition people pushing up so much again for mince that there really isn't much room left for something people sex to have a significant effect I'm just saying that the athletes feel like there's no sex a psychologically think that there's a benefit even know there is a will there is it doesn't actually get a real benefit in performance because it because we believe that there is one that sings I don't think is true justice for professional athletes get it together soon little room for variance in a person you wouldn't be competing in the Olympics 50 if you can have it a significant change in your presence because of something like that um that doesn't make a difference like you couldn't factory latest hot hands for nomming on Michigan is the consensus is there some controversy expenses that it doesn't really exist show for professional basketball players having made warmest previous baskets doesn't seem to affect their abilities the chance to make the next ask it doesn't appear to be any measurable psychological effect any to see the doctor performing follows pure statistical chance Yeah I think that's the same reason what is a hot and sexy visitors Street Addison whatever hitting baseballs are you were shooting baskets or whatever that you thinking is that would you make a basket to be more confident you'll make a higher chance of you miss a basket Guild field goal your your confidence in a greater chance of missing the next one today best places will tend to make baskets in a row would be on a on a cold streak with you in like this text just date to the finish line psychological exclamation doesn't exist I would just be to meet same as saying that it is a placebo effect wearing a rubber band or nope I'm not maybe four season average amateur athlete or maybe in a measurable psychological fact I don't think you're competing in the Olympics are going to have any going to be on that metal stand because if it is fake strips of tape in the back
Name That Logical Fallacy (48:37)
well we do have a name that logical fallacy this week hi this is a letter, an email that was sent to me by a gale Wallenberg and Kel writes
Sir, In reading your comments on iridology, I noticed a lot of biased opinions. I have to ask "why does modern medicine concentrate their efforts on treating the symtoms rather than treating the root cause?" I have also noticed that during my lifetime. there seems to be a very high mortality rate from misdiagnosed diseases by those claiming to be using the best diagnosis machines available. Modern medicine is not science based at all but rather based on greed for money. That is why modern medicine practitioners make such fraudulent claims against alternative medicine. If you would not receive any monetary compensation for what you do as an MD would you still be doing it? Best regards, Gale Wollenberg
in order to questionable to logic in there in and out of you guys
Science or Fiction (56:31)
Item number one. Claptrap - A trick used to "catch" applause from the audience. Item number two. Bogus - A machine used to make counterfeit bills or coins. Item number three. Straw man - Refers to men who stood outside courthouses with a straw in their shoe in order to indicate their willingness to be a false witness. And item number four. Nuts - From "nuts" meaning a source of pleasure.
Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:10:52)
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
J: Malcolm Muggeridge!
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