SGU Episode 217

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

Charlie Sheen 911 Truther

 * http://www.prisonplanet.com/twenty-minutes-with-the-president.html

Quantum Amnesia

 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/aug/26/entropy-time-arrow-quantum-mechanics

Hulda Clark Dead

 * http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/09/requiem_for_a_quack.php

Golzalez Therapy Fail

 * http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCO.2009.22.8429v1

What's In Your Wallet

 * http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6681923.ecenk in the Show Notes

Exomoons

 * http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=866

Great Tits Eat Bats

 * http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17749-killer-birds-bite-off-bats-heads.htmlyperlink in the Show Notes

Special Report

 * Richard Wiseman discusses the famous Yale Study of motivation, which does not exist.

Science or Fiction
Item # 1: A new survey shows that in the last 20 years the number of working scientists who have been contacted by journalists about their research has decreased by about 50%. Item # 2: The Chemical Abstracts Service announced that on September 7th it recorded it 50 millionth unique chemical substance. Item # 3: Research reveals that factors that predict recovery from the psychological trauma of 9/11 and similar events include less emotional control.

Live Q&amp;A
"The SGU takes lives questions from the audience."

Quote of the Week
"'What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.' - Christopher Hitchens"