Episode #655
News Items
Interview with Richard Saunders
- https://www.skeptics.com.au/tag/richard-saunders/
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
If you viewed the Milky Way edge on it would appear like a perfectly straight band about 10 thousand light years thick with a bulge in the middle. https://www.universetoday.com/22285/facts-about-the-milky-way/
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Item #2
Science
The Milky Way has three rings, comprised of streams of millions of stars. https://www.factretriever.com/milky-way-facts
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Item #3
Science
The Milky Way is estimated to be 13.6 billion years old, almost as old as the universe itself at 13.7 billion years. https://www.universetoday.com/22285/facts-about-the-milky-way/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘The borderlines between genuine science and pseudoscience may be fuzzy, but this should be even more of a call for careful distinctions, based on systematic facts and sound reasoning. To try a modicum of turtle blood here and a little aspirin there is not the hallmark of wisdom and even-mindedness. It is a dangerous gateway to superstition and irrationality.’ Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry