Episode 263 – The Tylenol Presser and Sailing Stones with Brian Dunning

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Episode Summary:

Much of our intro segment is spent with Celestia gnashing her teeth about the recent Trump-RFK-Oz press conference that unveiled a purported link between acetaminophen and autism. It was . . . not good. Then Ben and Celestia are joined by Skeptoid’s Brian Dunning to discuss his lifelong love of Death Valley and his part in the solution to a longtime mystery there: the sailing stones of Racetrack Playa. These heavy rocks have, for decades, mystified visitors (and apparently park rangers too) by leaving long, winding trails behind them when no one was looking. The remote location would seem to rule out hoaxing, so it had to be some natural phenomenon — and no, it was not magnetic fields or vortexes. Note: Celestia mistakenly calls Nevada’s Three Kids manganese mine a mercury mine, but because it bothered the heck out of her she looked it up right before typing these notes!

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acetaminophen, autism, Brian Dunning, Death Valley, desert, ice, mysteries, Oz, Racetrack Playa, RFK, RFK Jr., rocks, Sailing Stones, Southwest, Trump, Tylenol, wind
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