– Date – September 24th, 2013
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Skepticism, Past and Future [1:35]
– Indian rationalist Dr. Narendra Dabholkar was murdered on August 20th.
– Murders of health workers dispensing polio vaccinations have taken place this year in Nigeria and Pakistan.
– A grenade was thrown into Cotton Mather's house to protest smallpox inoculations in 1721.
– Anti-vaccine riots broke out in Montreal on September 28, 1885.
– A "vaccine revolt" lasted a week in Rio di Janeiro from Nov. 10 – 16, 1904 – previously discussed on Skepticality #168.
– Virgil Griffith built WikiScanner in August 2007 and it made quite a splash.
– Wired Magazine won an award in 2008 for their feature which allowed readers to use WikiScanner to explore self-interested anonymous edits to Wikipedia and vote on the worst offenders.
– WikiScanner no longer operates, but a similar tool called WikiWatchdog recently came online.
– The offices of Scientology were permanently banned from editing Wikipedia on May 28, 2009.
– Skeptic History facts are posted daily on social media find out where on this page at Tim’s blog.

Wikipedia [9:12]
– Leah Remini who very recently left Scientology, and there has been a lot of fuss made.
– Tony Ortega announced that Remini was interviewed on The Ellen show.
– Visit the Scientology talk page.
– Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia Blog.
– You can find Susan Gerbic at her website.

Skeptical Humanities [14:35]
– "Bridge for Sale: Deception in America." BackStory Podcast. 29 March 2013.
– "Buy/Sell the Brooklyn Bridge." The Big Apple Blog (13 July 2004).
– Cohen, Gabriel. "For You, Half Price" New York Times (27 Nov 2005).
– "Court Interpreter Accused." New York Times (21 Oct 1903).
– "Hollander 'Buys' Brooklyn Bridge." East Oregonian (19 March 1913).
– Find out more at skepticalhumanities.com.

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The Odds Must Be Crazy [22:50]
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Interview: Dr. Paul Offit [27:45]
– Dr. Paul Offit's Personal Website.
– He was born with a childhood medical condition, which forced him to be around children who were infected with Polio.
– Co-Inventor of a Rotavirus vaccine.
– That vaccine is now part of the USA vaccination schedule.
– Works with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia providing vaccine education and awareness.
– Was a dissenting voice against giving preventive smallpox vaccines to military and individuals as a preventative after the events of September 11th.
– Latest book is "Do You Believe In Magic?".
– He had the song by the 'Lovin' Spoonfuls' in his head while writing the book.
– He took the practice of vitamin dosing by the general population to task.
– Taking some vitamins actually will increase your chances of getting certain cancers.
– The Wall Street Journal even ran a story about the dangers of taking unregulated vitamins.
– Acupuncture is a 'difficult' topic, the placebo effect is a strange and hard to pin down when determining the actual 'benefit' of certain alternative medical treatments.
– Chiropractic, 'medicine', a medical idea born out of a completely incorrect idea which is easy to see, is completely untrue.
– There have been many cases where chiropractors 'treatments' have lead to people having strokes, and some cases, death.
– Could the 'trust' in alternative treatments be due to poor medical training or education?
– Dr. Offit decided to wrote the book after receiving faulty medical advise by his doctor, showing a lack of science based thought.
– Some alternative medical treatments are, without a single doubt, fanciful and useless.
– See some television clips featuring Dr. Offit at his website..

Outro Music [40:33]
– Outro music donated by Trent Brusky of Dropfox.