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The Skeptics Guide #919 - Feb 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Supermassive Black Hole

Supermassive black holes are among the most massive black holes in existence from hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of our sun with potentially event horizons rivaling the scale of our solar system truly magnificent things. Even experts can get it wrong if they have a bias because you could say, where do you set your threshold of evidence? You could always arbitrarily set it higher and think, I'm just requiring good evidence, evidentiary standards. But if you're biased in where you set that standard, you could make anything seem negative because everything's always relative,. Which is why it's also so important to have a good understanding of philosophy, not just science.

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