Steven Novella

Well, the community is such an important part of this.

And not that I intended to go into like a news item, but there's a lot of research, especially recent research showing that the lack of community that people have is people shy away from institutions, even religious institutions, and there's more isolation and working from home and everything really is a heavy mental burden on people.

Yeah.

It really is.

And so we have to build communities to interact with each other.

We might as well build them around something good like skepticism and critical thinking and science rather than, you know, whatever, other things.

All right.

There's one more thing I got to plug before we go on to some news items.

Skeptical 2026 is coming up next weekend.

Whoa.

And I think we've all been to it or participated in some way in the past.

This is a great skeptical conference in California run by Eugenie Scott, who is totally awesome.

They have a great lineup of speakers.

They have their skeperty game, which is always a lot of fun.

So you can check this out at skepticalcon.com.

And still time to get tickets for that, which is on Friday, June 26th and Saturday, June 27th.

All right.

You guys remember from several months ago, I think now like five months ago, the Donut Lab battery claims that we talked about?

Oh, my God.

Of course.