Episode 29

Skeptics' Guide - Episode #29

Recording Date: February 8th, 2006

Panelists (in order of appearance)

- Steven Novella
- Bob Novella
- Evan Bernstein
- Perry DeAngelis
- Jay Novella

Interesting Facts

- Skeptical Question of the Week evolved to Ask the Skeptic which evolved to "Your emails and questions" in this episode
- The theme for Science or Fiction this week is Animals
- Two Websites of the week this week are Modern Myths Taught As Science, and Science Myths" in K-6 Textbooks and Popular culture
- A girl in high school thought Steve and Bob were the same person
- Perry used to be a hunter

Science or Fiction**

- Evan (4/16)
- Jay* (1/2)
- Perry (6/17)
- Bob (10/16)

Funny Quotes

1.	Jay: "I'm back my brothers!"
2.	Jay: "So Steve what you're saying is LOOK AT THE BONES!"
3.	Jay (about piltdown man): "You know also that guy, when he created that fake, in order to really sell it that it came from England, he gave it horrible teeth."
4.	Steve: "Another item that caught my interest this week is a study that was just published, a low-fat diet may not reduce cancer or heart attack risks." Perry: "I'd like to take this moment here to say for all fat people of the world.. we told you so."
5.	Perry: "The geography of my tongue is very important to me."
6.	Jay: "There's another Novella brother that doesn't do the podcast." Perry: "Sadly he was abducted by UFOs."
7.	Jay (about coyotes): "They smell like cabbage."
8.	Steve: "Hey maybe bigfoot is nocturnal."
9.	Perry: "That's un-possible."
10.	Evan: "Well Bugs Bunny is very happy that the tasmanian devils are going down in population."
11.	Steve: "That's right and I was gonna make that point..." Bob: "HA! Beat ya!"
12.	Jay: "So can we say that the author is this week's jackass?"

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** - As of the conclusion of this episode's game. (wins/times played)
* - won this week's game