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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 158 - 7/30/2008
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly Podcast talkshow discussing the latest news and topics from the world of the paranormal, fringe science, and controversial claims from a scientific point of view. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality -Produced by the New England Skeptical Society in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation(JREF) : http://www.theness.com
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Podcast
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July 30, 2008
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Interview with Banachek
News Items: Edgar Mitchell UFO Claims, UFOs and Terrorism, Gas from Garbage
Your Questions and E-mail: House and the Therapeutic Diagnosis
Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Name That Logical Fallacy
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Logical Fallacies
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I am an avid follower of "House" and have heard him say "The treatment will confirm the diagnosis." This is apparently known as a diagnosis ex juvantibus. Is this an example of "post hoc ergo propter hoc" reasoning? If a treatment is reasonably specific, the reasoning seems sound, yet it seems suspicious. Where am I going wrong?
Anders Starmark
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Banachek
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http://www.banachek.org/nonflash/index.htm
Banachek is a premiere mentalist and scourge of those who would use mentalism to fake "psychic" powers. He discusses his experiences as a mentalist, as a subject of the Alpha Project where he fooled scientists into thinking he had real powers, and his history with Uri Geller.
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Question #1  Fiction
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A new report warns travelers to the Beijing Olympics that the most common illnesses contracted by visitors are malaria and dengue fever.
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Question #2  Science
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New research shows that free radicals are used to signal satiety in the brain, suggesting that anti-oxidants may increase appetite.
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Question #3 Science
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NASA's Cassini probe has confirmed for the first time surface liquid on a body other than earth - an ethane lake on the surface of Titan.
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