Skeptics Guide

The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #956 November 3rd 2023 Live from NotaCon With special guest, Eli Bosnick Segment #1. Quickie with Steve Micro-meteoric spherules contaminated with anthropogenic ash. Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 - Making Lunar Roads with Sunlight www.space.com/blasting-lunar-... News Item #2 - Misinformation vs Disinformation News Item #3 - Gravitational Waves As Fast As Light bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ba... News Item #4 - Fluoride and IQ sciencebasedmedicine.org/fluo... News Item #5 - Homeopathy Article Retracted News Item #6 - Dark GPT finance.yahoo.com/news/combat... Segment #3. Skeptics and Paranormal Experiences Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake - and you can play along. Theme: Extinction #1) After the Permian extinction 252 million years ago, the land was dominated by large amphibians, until late in teh Triassic when dinosaurs rose to prominence. #2) The T-rex lifespan was only about 28 years, with the oldest specimen being 29 years old. #3) The Pyrenean Ibex was the only animal ever to be brought back from extinction. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in." - Zach Braff

[@nicholaicheck]

[0:57] Live at Not A Con [1:14] Eli Bosnick's introduction [2:20] Next Not A Con [3:57] Quickie with Steve [5:52] Panel devolves into giggle fest [6:44] News Item #1 - Making Lunar Roads with Sunlight [7:27] Giggle fest #2, Star Wars edition [15:48] News Item #2 - Misinformation vs Disinformation [28:36] Tik Toc interlude goes off the rails ... hard [35:13] News Item #3 - Gravitational Waves As Fast As Light [43:42] News Item #4 - Fluoride and IQ featuring Dr. Strangelov quote [1:01:21] News Item #5 - Homeopathy Article Retracted [1:10:39] Dark GPT [1:23:17] Skeptics and Paranormal Experiences [1:28:06] Science or Fiction [1:39:19] Quote of the Week

[@sme91158]

Here's some trivia for the "disinformation" segment. I have a hard copy book The American Heritage College Dictionary, Third Edition from 1993 (1630 pages) that includes the word "disinformation" but does NOT have the word "misinformation" or any derivative. This means the word was coined sometime in the last 30 years. The etymology of the word suggests it comes from Russian "dezinformatsiya". Most people assume that "misinformation" came first but that's not true.

[@gabrielsatter]

To be fair to Peter Joseph, that film was never meant to be a scholarly work. It was an art piece that caught on as well as took on a life of its own. The ideas he espouses aren't crazy and he has no intention of spreading harmful misinfo.

[@Tokechan]

Anyone have a timestamp for the par in The Great Culling with the guy drinking the water? :p

[@Xen0Phanes]

Thanks for the show! 👍'd

[@jmreagle]

Please, chapter markings in podcast and on KZbin.

[@Malavander]

+1 to video timestamps, also please format the info in the doobleydoo rather than critting us with a solid unreadable block of noise. Is the KZbin thing just an afterthought where you just copy/paste/upload and forget about it? Literally every other channel I subscribe to has timestamps in the video and well formatted info. Get with the times guys!