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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 302 - 4/27/2011
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.
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Podcast
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April 27, 2011
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Interview with Seth Shostak
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: A Skeptic in Oz, More Creationism in Texas, Higgs Rumor
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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April 30, 1878
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http://www.todayinsci.com/4/../12/12_27.htm#Pasteur
Louis Pasteur lectured at the French Academy of Science in support of his germ theory of disease, in which he held that many diseases were caused by tiny organisms. Since he still met with opposition from some scientists, he called their contrary opinions "fatal to medical progress." Pasteur also described ways to prevent infection, and provided the skeptics with an experiment with which to prove the theory to themselves
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Who's That Noisy
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Answer to last week: Firesign Theater
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Seth Shostak
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Seth work with the SETI Institute - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and comes on to discuss their recent funding problems.
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote of the Week
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"Thinking is skilled work. It is not true that we are naturally endowed with the ability to think clearly and logically—without learning how, or without practicing… People with untrained minds should no more expect to think clearly and logically than people who have never learned and never practiced can expect to find themselves good carpenters, golfers, bridge-players, or pianists."
Alfred Mander, psychologist (1947)
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