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  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 134 Snakes India Probe And Barbie
    00:00 Intro
    03:11 Gary's Non.Interview
    08:46 Skeptical Birthday
    15:00 Whack.A.Meme Giraffe Riddle
    22:35 Skeptic Wire Team Screws Up The Transition
    24:52 Snake Handling Pentecostals
    37:36 Snakes And Primate Evolution
    53:00 Snake Massage
    55:15 India Mars Probe
    62:30 Grad School Barbie
    75:49 Closing
    Harpo does not likes snakes but would love to play with a Barbie
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    1 hr 21 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 133 Halloween Candy And Food
    00:00 Intro
    06:19 Experimenting With Scratchers
    12:51 Skeptical Birthday
    18:59 Whack.a.meme Michelle Bachmann Bans Halloween
    23:34 Whack.a.meme GMOs In Candy
    Website or Webshite
    http://www.naturalcandystore.com/
    http://foodbabe.com/
    34:20 Poisoned Halloween Candy
    46:54 Halloween And Stranger Danger
    54:38 Parents Stealing Halloween Candy
    65:39 Popcorn And Advertising
    78:13 Addictive Oreos
    85:26 A Bit of Bacon And Closing
    Harpo is looking forward to barking at all the trick or treating kids
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    1 hr 33 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 132 Atheist News And Being Offended
    00:00 Intro
    04:12 Skeptical Birthday
    12:10 Website or Webshite
    14:26 LONG discussion on atheist news and how to be offended
    64:16 Closing
    Harpo is very insistent that she does not like Hitler.
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    1 hr 9 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 131 Goldfish Jellyfish and Robots
    00:00 Intro
    02:09 Should Miri Mogilevsky Be Given A Free Goldfish? 
    12:23 Skeptical Birthday
    19:25 Whack.a.meme Government Shutdown
    32:25 Jellyfish
    40:46 Robot Cars and Traffic
    53:13 Robot Locomotion
    58:47 Robot Self Assembly
    68:04 Robots The Future
    70:39 Closing
    74:45 Outtakes
    Harpo realizes Greg forgot to do a Web of Trust Website or Webshite recommendation.
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    1 hr 29 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 130 MacBain Women in Islam Rose Marks Bigfeet
    00:00 Intro
    02:24 Skeptical Birthday
    08:37 Teresa MacBain Resume Wrongdoing
    20:00 3 Stories of Women In The Middle East
    32:36 Marvell and Natalie Portman Promoting Women In STEM
    35:45 Psychic Rose Marks Found Guilty
    48:50 Psychic's Boyfriend Burns Down Her Business
    52:32 Bigfoot In the News
    71:52 Website or Webshite
    http://sasquatchgenomeproject.org/
    72:21 Closing
    Harpo is of the opinion that HER ankles are the prettiest of all.
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    1 hr 18 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 129 Badminton and Space Science
    00:00 Intro
    10:00 Tesco Rats and the gays
    16:23 Skeptical Birthday
    19:35 Whack.a.meme Childbirth pain
    25:55 Various Space Stories
    Voyager Enters Interstellar Space
    Plutonium-238 Shortage
    Deep Impact Probe Goes Offline
    Spitzer Telescope Get's New Mission
    Cygnus capsule gets delayed on it's way to the ISS
    60:57 Would you volunteer to go to Mars
    75:33 Website or Webshite
    http://www.ktradionetwork.com/
    https://www.globalinformationnetwork.com/
    79:58 Closing
    Harpo is disappointed that Greg hasn't bought her another rope toy to shred while the humans record their podcast.
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    1 hr 23 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 128 More Poop Vaccines and WoT with Susan Gerbic
    00:00 Intro/Viewer Mail
    13:01 Skeptical Birthday
    18:23 Gary's Poop Update
    24:37 Holy Water Is Full Of Poop
    31:22 Various Vaccine News Items (SIV research, Delayed vaccinations, Polio vaccine problems in India, New Vaccine info app)
    52:56 Web Of Trust (With Susan Gerbic @SkepticAction)
    http://www.adishom.com/ (http://www.donotlink.com/6J)
    http://www.camelmilkusa.com/ (http://www.donotlink.com/7q)
    http://www.amazon.com/Abominable-Science-Origins-Nessie-Cryptids/dp/0231153201/
    68:38 Closing
    Harpo is starting to worry that the hosts are talking about poop so much
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    1 hr 21 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 127 Pooping Ghosts and Truthers
    00:00 Intro/Viewer Mail
    06:26 Skeptical Birthday
    09:42 Whack.a.meme
    17:08 You're Pooping Wrong
    32:12 Ghost Stories
    51:48 Mickey Hart and Neuroscience
    60:46 Website or Webshite Web Of Trust
    http://www.911truth.org
    http://www.ae911truth.org
    http://www.rethink911.org
    http://www.rememberbuilding7.org
    69:51 Closing
    Harpo is proud of her pooping, yes she is.
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    1 hr 22 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 126 Ununpentium and Longevity
    00:00 Intro
    01:52 Skeptical Birthday
    08:18 Whack.a.meme
    17:06 Ununpentium
    28:08 Three Longevity Studies
    46:36 Website or Webshite Web Of Trust (with guest Susan Gerbic http://about.me/susangerbic Twitter: @skepticaction)
    http://www.mercola.com
    67:31 Viewer Mail and Closing
    Harpo is quiet…too quiet
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    1 hr 18 min
  • The Skeptic Wire Episode 125 FSM Vaccine Reading
    00:03:45 Birthday
    00:13:05 Wack-a-meme
    00:20:26 Odd invention
    00:23:30 FSM news
    00:25:20 North Texas Church has measles
    00:33:30 Webshite
    vaccinationinformationnetwork.com
    00:37:30 How to read a scientific paper
    http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/08/25/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-2/
    00:53:55 Positive thinking ratio torn down
    http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/BrownSokalFriedmanAPonlinefirst.pdf
    01:13:40 A different way to read a science paper
    01:18:15 What did we learn
    And Harpo is upset she cannot read more than simple english..
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    1 hr 27 min

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