The next installment of my new falsehoods series, on Skeptically Speaking radio with Desiree Schell, is tonight at 6PM Mountain Standard Time. You can listen on line or wait until emacsDay, I mean Sunday, and download it.
The main guests (my bit is a little add in pre-recorded thing) are George Dvorsky and Greg Fish. Details, and a place to leave comments are here.
I will post this installment's sister blog post some time before the show. The falsehood in question is: "Humans Evolved from Apes" ... A statement that is indubitably true yet clearly wrong.
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