The Skeptics Guide #981 - Apr 27 2024 (Ad Free)
Added 2024-04-27 18:21:08 +0000 UTCJohn Oliver and UFOs; News Items: Voyager Fixed, NASA's New Solar Sail, Bird Flu in Milk, Dark Energy Getting Weaker, After Death Communications; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Havana Syndrome; Science or Fiction
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The book The God Impulse talks about NDEs. The author spent his career collecting NDE stories. He explains every single aspect of NDEs using science, i.e. tunnel vision caused by the loss of blood to the brain, out of body experiences, and such. He takes a very non-critical approach to the stories he relates, even when using the natural causes for what the patient experienced. He ends with inducing this state in patients at end-of-life care instead of drugging them into oblivion until they pass. The book was recommended to my by Stephanie Savage, who wrote for either Free Inquiry or Skeptical Enquirer about her coma experience as an atheist. At one point while in a coma she was riding an ice-cream powered big wheel. In the real world, she was freezing in bed. Her BF read H2G2 to her while she was in a coma. That would make for an interesting experience.
Asymetra
2024-06-29 00:17:59 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPSD1SUYCY 60 minutes piece.
Jim Sky
2024-04-28 05:12:18 +0000 UTCI was convinced by that 60 minutes piece on Havana Syndrome. I have a technical background and I am sure such a weapon could be built. Its just a microwave transmitter. We use then every day. And everyone who works with high power microwave transmitters, knows not to stick their head in front of one. This isn't anything new. The pushback on this is not believable, so I suspect there are political reasons we do not wish to engage Russia on this.
Jim Sky
2024-04-28 05:11:57 +0000 UTC
