SGU Episode 321

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

This Day in Skepticism

 * September 11, 2001: 10 year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Truther movement is still around.

Diamond Planet

 * http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/us-planet-diamond-idUSTRE77O69A20110825

Homeopathic Water

 * http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/acupuncture-and-acoustic-waves/

Woolly Rhino

 * http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6047/1285

Editor Resigns over Global Warming Paper

 * http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/09/journal-editor-resigns-over-contrarian.html

Science or Fiction
Item #1: A large study of firefighters finds that those exposed to the WTC area on 9/11 had no significantly altered risk of developing cancer. Item #2: New mouse study shows that including walnuts in the diet reduces the risk of breast cancer by about half. Item #3: For the first time artificially cultured red cells were injected safely into a human recipient.

Live Q&amp;A
"The rogues take questions from the audience."

Skeptical Quote of the Week
"“I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, blown and flared by passion’s storm, and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish and and naught remain.” - Robert Green Ingersoll"