The Skeptic Wire

This Week: hh:mm:ss

04:24 Gary and Greg perform "Mr. Reverend John Martin"

09:30 Holistic Chamber of Commerce Houston-style "Body Talk"

20:20 Value Voter Summit and "Family" discussion

34:20 Talks at the conference

45:00-ish morph into a discussion of debating religion

54:00 Atheist and music: Tim Minchin and Susan Werner

56:00 Hitchens' talk

60:14 Mr. Reverend John Martin pre-release demo

Very special thanks to Jason Huey, Gary Clemons-Gibbon, John Clark, Kenneth Bower, John Griffin, Jeff Nichanen for joining the discussion and everyone else who joined us: and I apologize for mis-spelling your name (which I didn't do, because you all agreed to change your name to whatever spelling/ prnounciation I chose)!

Freethought Forum Knoxville youtube channel: finitist

Checkout the new podcast out of Austin "godless bitches"

And the dogs enjoy themselves elsewhere, having no input to or at, the procedings.

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This Week: (hh:mm:ss)

2:15 Update on Atheist billboard on Church Property

06:39 Women given right to vote in Saudi Arabia

16:36 Poe's Corner: Cheese!

22:39 Online petition system in place at whitehouse.gov

38:00 Alt-Med in the military

54:41 Lightning Round

And the dogs discuss if something walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and floats in water could it possibly be a shape-shifting alien replicator like the Thing.

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This Week: (hh:mm:ss)

01:30 Texas Freethought Convention Oct 7-9n 2011, Live recording at TFC, whitehouse.gov petition, shoutout to Donna's sister-in-law (ish), UARS update

7:58 Speedy neutrinos

23:33 Schroedinger's Cat redux

36:12 55%, 33%, 7% and Left and Right Brain training myths

46:38 Aborigine Genome Sequenced

91:05 Holistic Chamber of Commerce

96:18 Lightning Round

EXTRA: Go to the blog (http://skepticwire.blogspot.com) for Poe's Corner, which was cut for time. It's worth your time.

...and Gary spends most of the podcast keeping/stopping Calliope from needfully greeting the Skepticwirians, pawing the mic stands, or licking...everything. For a very difficult drinking game: drink everytime you hear Gary snap, clap, or stage whisper "tshh!". [And Gary's long topic is what happens when he doesn't stinkin' prepare!]

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This Week:

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00:42 Stuff that has happened and shoutouts to listeners!

07:04 Domestic PArtner Benefits for San Antonio City Employees

16:05 US Military releases Religious Neutrality Memorandum

27:50 Poe's Corner

32:27 Pseudoscience Versus Science

46:30 Global Warming question

49:40 Crowd Sourcing Gamers solve AIDS enzyme

54:00 Scientists disarm AIDS virus

59:14 Lightning Round

And the dogs agree with many things that are said (finally!)

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This week:

00:01 Intro:

- Update on Soyuz

- NASA gets a new rocket plan

- FFRF and Lindale, TX algebra teacher

- Bachmann vs. Perry and the HPV vaccine

14:25 iPhone acne apps

21:10 Spongebob and brain function

31:30 Poe's Corner

39:30 Near Death Experiences

49:35 Contagion is pro-science

59:20 Lightning Round

Go to the blog for this week's "Holistic Chamber of Commerce" newest member!

Yeah: it got cut from this week's episode.

I blame the dogs.

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This week:

01:00 Intro:

- TX burns

- Shoutout to Eric for his review,

- Emily Davis- freethinking musician,

- Updates TX Sonogram, Warren Jeffs

09:05 9-11 Remembered a wandering discussion

10:24 Truthers in the Pub

14:00 The buildings

18:21 Why the conspiracy?

24:40 WC 7 (building 7)

27:49 Pentagon

31:10 Who are the truthers

35:35 Religious effects

47:00 Memorial Service

53:49 Where were you?

60:29 Lightning Round

for a good resource on 9-11 Myths, read Popular Mechanics' "Debunking 9-11 Myths"

And the dogs feel inclined to chime in at least once, though they had yet to have been concieved in 2001.

This week:

Live recording in front a group of skeptics! Our first live recording, as our podcast hits #21 and has a beers [sic].

Oh, lawzzy it's a long'un!

Intro:

1:36 - Homeopathy in the HEB (grocery store to you non-Southerners) plus a personal anecdote

00:06:12 - Greg's brother gets a PhD

00:07:23 - Hurricane Irene and a Bachmann self Poe

00:09:38 - Update on Warren Jeffs

00:12:55 - Update on Doctor James Corbett

Long Topics:

00:18:40 - Indiana students, racy photos, and the right to have a life outside of school

00:25:46 - Vaccines and autism: no link. Again.

00:41:01 - Right to Die case

00:53:35 - Soyuz and ISS and NASA

01:00:20 SA Holistic Chamber of Commerce - Kagan Water

01:11:35 Lightning Round (ends with a rant by Greg on the new placenta-as-food fad from 1:27:00)

1:33:20 Q and A: Is bisexualilty the only sex, with other sexual identities being merely social constructs

1:47:35 Outtakes

And because we were away from the studio: no dog inturruptions, but we did have a fallen cup incident. Bad cup!

This Week:

Quickies:

- Earthquake in Virginia

- Texas Freethought Convention (www.texasfreethoughtconvention.com)

- We're doing a lkive show in San Antonio next week

- David Mabus

Bill Clinton goes Vegan

West Memphis Three released

Teacher acquitted of anti-creationism

INteresting parasychology guy Helmut Schmidt dies

Lightning Round

And special silent treatment by the dogs (though they make a show of eatng at us at some point)

This week:

Arkansas Coalition of Reason bus campaign update

Health stories:

- Perry OKs vaccination for universities

- Breakthrough leukemia drug trial

- DRACO kills all viruses?

- first Vampire bat bite death in US

- Ultra thin electronic medical device

Poe's Corner

Conservative versus liberal thinking study

DNA material found in a meteorite

Lightning Round

Everybody go to the Texas Freethought Convention Aug 7-9, 2011 in Houston, TX!

www.texasfreethoughconvention.com

With a special interjection or two by Dog the Younger.

This Week:

Quickies:

- Live from Rick Perry's "The Response" protest

- School supplies rally (thank you Carol Chesser)

- Kurt Vonnegut book ban update

- Perseid Meteor Shower this coming 12-13Aug2011

- Shout out to Phil Ferguson at Skepticmoney.com

"The Response"

Warren Jeffs' trial and conviction

Holistic Chamber og Commerce

Poe's Corner

Lightning Round

And the dogs, quietly play "Godzilla" in the background.