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The Skeptics Guide #885 - Jun 25 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Snake Oil Patent Medicine

Nostrum comes from the latin word nostre, which means ours. It really does connitate that the person giving it to you was the person who mixed it or invented it themselves. A homeopathy is a shortening of the phrase nostrum, remedium, our remedy. And so i'm going to start using it more often on the show, because it's such a great a term to use four things like 'homeopathy' and 'neuroticism', for example. We have one e male - leads Davidas in united kingdom. He writes: "I always, when i hear the city leads live at leeads, i always think of the game king

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