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The Skeptics Guide #908 - Dec 3 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Science or Fiction?

Each week I come up with three science news items and challenge my panelist skeptics to tell me which one is the fake. This week we have a theme, Captain Obvious: Sleepy secret to waking up refreshed, refresh is sleeping longer. The second item subjects rated faces with facial scars as being less attractive than similar faces without scars. And the third one, parents talk to toddlers who talk back. So what's the fiction? Bob go first.

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