SGU Episode 314

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

This Day in Skepticism

 * July 23, 1995: Comet Hale-Bopp

Comet Elenin

 * http://thetruthbehindthescenes.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/scientists-says-comet-elenin-has-massive-ufo-fleet-following-in-formation-in-its-tail/

Forces of Darkness

 * http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/07/a_disturbing_post_on_an_anti-vaccine_blog.php

Science Proves the Bible (Not)

 * http://www.livingwaters.com/witnessingtool/scienceconfirmsthebible.shtml

Pastafarian Headgear

 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523

Organic Water

 * http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/07/13/137796144/organic-water-a-new-marketing-wave

Graphene Water Battery

 * http://electronicsbus.com/graphite-water-battery-instant-charging-super-batteries/

Youngest Dinosaur Fossil

 * http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/news.2011.411.html

Question #1
"Skeptical Wins"

Question #2
"24 Hour SGU show"

Question #3
"Reconciling Faith and Skepticism"

Question #4
"Cranio-sacral Therapy"

Question #5
"Favorite Science Jokes"

Question #6
"Sam Harris"

Question #7
"How SGU Started"

Science or Fiction
Item #1: New research indicates that access to information via the internet, such as through Google, decreases people’s ability to recall information. Item #2: The Wildlife Conservation Society has recently declared that the snow leopard is now likely extinct in the wild. Item #3: Models of the orbits of the large asteroids Ceres and Vesta indicate that Earth’s climate cannot be traced back more than 60 million years.

Skeptical Quote of the Week
"'Science is the best thing that humanity has ever come up with. And if it isn't, then science will fix it.' - Bill Nye"