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The Skeptics Guide #928 - Apr 22 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Importance of Precautionary Perspectives

It reminds me of the archaeologists, that used to be like whenever you found archaeological stuff like tools or whatever, the first thing you would do is clean everything. When you do that, they were just so destructive of the information because the DNA testing didn't exist whatever 30, 40 years ago. So now the process is completely different. You'd want every bit of grime and dirt and whatever that's there because that's all evidence. And also early on, they would just collect this stuff. They wouldn't take pictures. We didn't have any in situ. Right. But we don't know until we know.

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