Dr. Steven Novella
speaker
11,445 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2d ago
Dr. Steven Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 5.
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They say they are using an unattached object, the net, but he's not really using it.
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He's just pulling it out of the water because it's attached to food.
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If it were a branch, if there was a fish caught in a branch and he grabbed it and pulled the branch out of the river to get at the fish, would that be using a tool?
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If he went and got the net and put it in there and then – that's different.
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They're generalizing.
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It could be a hazy generalization.
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But even that aside – It doesn't matter.
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He did do it.
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Does this qualify?
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Does this qualify?
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I think the term using is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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Yeah.
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Using an unattached object.
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Yeah, they're just pulling at something to get to food.
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You know what I mean?
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It's not really tool use.
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They're not using it.
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They did not deploy the net.
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They're not doing anything with it.
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They're just pulling at it to get at food.
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