Skeptics Guide to the Universe - Show#1 Exploding Toads and Baloney Detectors

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is a weekly Science podcast talkshow discussing the latest news and topics from the world of the paranormal, fringe science, and controversial claims from a scientific point of view.

This show explores the exploding toad phenomenon in Germany and the medias unskeptical approach.

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[Inuyasha44320]

Pyramids, aliens?

yeah those two things have everything to do with exploding toads

STAY ON FUCKING TOPIC!

[ozzy1248]

Actually they do - when you tie them into the topic of the show.

I'll let you try to figure out what that topic is...

Hint - clue is in the title.

[montrealpsycho]

That's hilarious.

Did you know that there are thousands of people in the USA who think the flying saucer that landed behind Los Angeles' Olympic Stadium at the closure of the Olympics of 1984 is a real UFO instead of a stunt for Sci-Fi movies and series that were popular at the time?

[ozzy1248]

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

And if you were to show these people the evidence that it was a stunt, they'd claim it was evidence of a cover-up.

[DarkTheAtheist]

If any1 is interested what happened was these birds (I dnt know all the details) found out how to lunge at the toads and pull out there liver, so they swoop down grab the liver from the toads n fly off the toad would realise that it is under attack (2 l8 of course) n its natural immune system would start to kick in however its immune system is to make itself larger n because its got a hole in it the guts would leak out n eventually boom.

[kcolumbusgirl]

Sounds lik Ray Romano... LoL

[rocketrod101]

sounds like reincarnated terrorist!!!!!!!!!! living in hell

[Kiljoy616]

OMG that does not exist, hahaha the graphics are great, keep it up guys this is great.

[robertwc82]

correction; according to reports of reports

[comanchio1976]

@DarkTheAtheist Yeah I heard it was Crows.

[InWitheNew]

@montrealpsycho They didn't really figure it out til the last couple years. It was Franz Mutschmann who was doing some post-death studies on the toads that suggested the crow theory which really is the only one that made any sense considering there was no evidence of any viral infections or anything of the sort. Basically the crows really liked the liver of the toads and figured out an easy way to get it and it didn't kill the toads right away and so they still had time to inflate and.. boom.

[InWitheNew]

They know why this happened. There was an influx of crows who would dive for the toads chest and eat their liver, these toads have a self defense mechanism of expanding and when they went to expand with that hole there and no liver, the mechanism failed and they were unable to stop the expansion and thus, exploded.

[M1ST3RHYDE]

Usually he people that say cietists cant explain something The same people argu Why does the Govenment waist money on such things, Its a Lose Lose with those people.

[detore]

YES!