Dr. Steven Novella

And it's all just arbitrary.

If you fudge with the numbers enough, you can find two numbers to line up.

The probability is extremely high that you could do that if you just spend a little time.

Very numerological.

It's numerology.

It's 100% numerology.

And it's committing the lottery fallacy.

He also throws in sort of a bonus fallacy at the beginning there, just kind of an implied fallacy.

When he mentions the guy's bona fides, like, oh, it's the Manhattan Project mathematician who consulted for Ness.

I don't care.

I don't give a crap what the guy's background is for this.

That does not inform this at all.

This is completely fallacious logic.

So I explained this to him and he doesn't get it.

You know, he's sort of doubling down.

Really?

Yeah.

All right, let's go on with Science or Fiction.

Each week I come up with three science news items that are facts, two real and one fake, and I challenge my panel of skeptics to tell me which one is the fake.

So we have three news items, but they happen to all have a theme, because I found ones that are all on the same theme.