Skeptics' Guide - Episode #2
Recording Date: June 1st, 2005
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Panelists (in order of appearance)
- Steven Novella
- Perry DeAngelis
- Bob Novella
- Evan Bernstein
Interesting Facts
- A few years before this episode, a psychic was doing readings at a local bookstore and the panelists went there to "harass" them.
Funny Quotes
1. Bob (Regarding Intelligent Design): "Repackaged creationism. Creationism 2.0"
2. Perry: "Like the judge said on the Simpsons: 'Religion will stay 500 feet from science at all times'"
Bob: "500 feet? How about 5 miles?!"
3. Steve: "And you know what season this is, what the end of school brings to the English speaking part of the world?"
Evan: "Umm, bikini parties."
Bob: "Teenage pregnancy?"
4. Evan: "You know, it just wouldn't be summer without crop circles."
5. Steve (Regarding crop circles): "If it is an attempt at communication I think we can characterize this attempt as an unmitigated failure."
Perry: "It's so stupid, aliens flatten down our wheat! It's just so dumb!"
6. Steve (quoting a woman): "'Yeah but the circles are perfect, that's unexplainable.'"
Steve (Continuing): "Well yeah until you invent this really archaic device, it's called a string and a peg. Come on! Didn't these people ever use a compass in like grade school?"
Evan: "Uh, they apparently didn't go to grade school Steve."
7. Bob: "Well yeah we all know that a chicken-wire fence is impenetrable as a force-field. What can get through that? Come on!"
8. Bob (Regarding the people who made the original crop circles): "That's what I want to do before I die. I want to start a paranormal phenomenon."
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