SGU Episode 319

Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

This Day in Skepticism

 * August 27, 2003: The world's biggest battery was connected to provide emergency power to Fairbanks, Alaska's second-largest city.

Earthquake in Virginia

 * http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/se082311a.html

Brand Loyalty

 * http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/brand-loyalty/

Who's That Noisy

 * Answer to last week: the video game Archon

Question #1 - Tin Foil and Credit Cards
"atomsk359 christopher short got handed a creditcard after the woman unwraped it from tinfoil, stops people from reading it she said, plausible or nosible"

Swindler's List
Functional Medicine http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28731977/detail.html

Science or Fiction
Item #1: Planetary scientists have produced a computer model that suggests that the early earth had two moons. Item #2: Scientists discover antibodies that may explain chronic symptoms that persist following Lyme disease. Item #3: New research supports the claims that some bacteria can feed off arsenic instead of phosphorous.

Skeptical Quote of the Week
"'Science is like a blabbermouth that ruins the end of a movie. Well I say there are things we don't want the answers to. Important things.' Ned Flanders"