The Skeptics Guide #783 - Jul 11 2020 (Ad Free)
Added 2020-07-11 10:49:56 +0000 UTCCOVID-19 Update; News Items: Roundness Bias, Pooled Testing, Insect Feed, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pasteurization, Police Shooting Retraction; Science or Fiction
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As a a tradie, when a customer asks how long it will take it is always 3/4 hour. 1/2 hour, they will stick around and watch. 1 hour, they will check back then. 3/4 requires just a bit more effort, they will leave you alone. Win.
Jess Donovan
2020-07-17 01:02:47 +0000 UTCI'm an electronics tech who keeps his first aid training up to date. My medical advice would be that Covid is not the only lurgy to worry about. Mould for instance?
Jess Donovan
2020-07-13 11:29:31 +0000 UTCBecause I thought that we were routinely making spider silk from goat's milk (therefore the robot scientist was the fiction), I still got it wrong.
Ted Apelt
2020-07-12 09:36:38 +0000 UTCBefore I hear the answer to Science or Fiction, my understanding is that it is well known that Polynesians (especially the ones living on Easter Island) contacted the natives of North and South America long before Columbus. I don't see how anyone would believe that they would go as far as Easter Island, but no further.
Ted Apelt
2020-07-12 09:11:37 +0000 UTCComment on washing masks. I have 4 cloth masks. I use one today for grocery shopping. Tomorrow I use mask #2. The next day #3, etc. By the time I get to day 5, I'm back to the first mask and it should be virus free since the virus doesn't live that long on surfaces. So I never have to wash them. Unless I sneeze in one! Any problem with this plan?
Jeffrey Katz
2020-07-11 23:35:17 +0000 UTC
