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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

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The Rarity of Libyan Glass

Science has a love hate relationship with rarity and novelty science is often trying to pursue novelty to make discoveries but if you can't replicate it it's kind of like what does it really exist yeah which is why I mean UFOs and aliens and all those kinds there's a general aversion to that. There's an element of falsity maybe the speed of light is not constant but changes over time that would throw into question all kinds of theories about dark matter and dark energy. Even even the universe itself could be one of an infinite many cycles oh and maybe all of the laws of nature are recreated a new with each cycle.

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