SGU Episode 82

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

Parents Trust 'Psychic Healer'

 * Parents Trust 'Psychic Healer' over Doctors for Daughter with Brain Tumor www.dailytidings.com/2007/0210/stories/0210_cancer.php

Kansas Science Guidelines

 * Kansas repeals science guidelines questioning evolution http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/14/evolution.debate.ap/index.html

PEAR Closes

 * Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory (PEAR) Closes www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW06-07/04-1108/notebook.html

LA Zoo Hires Fung Shui Consultant

 * Los Angeles Zoo Hires Fung Shui Consultant http://realtime.com/realtime_news/rt_offbeat/13462326_zoo_pays_feng_shui_expert_to_aid_monkeys_.html?pageid=nandu.category-top&pageregion=A4

TAM Interviews Part IV
TAM Interviews Part IV The Amazing Meeting Interviews Part IV This week: Christopher Hitchens and South Park creator Matt Stone

Science or Fiction
Question #1: A new study suggests that chimpanzees have been crafting and using stone tools for thousands of years. Question #2: Newly published article claims to have resolved Einstein's famous twin paradox. Question #3: Researchers have begun studying the use of magnets to correct sunken chest deformity.

Skeptical Puzzle
"This Week's Puzzle Identify the number sequence: 0.0, 2.6, 23.4, 25.2, 3.1, 26.7, 97.8, 28.3   Last Week's Puzzle  Explain the following sequence: 10, 1, 5, 25, 50  Answer: American coinage from smallest to largest Winner: Jared Zimmerman"

Quote of the Week
"'I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.'- Issac Asimov, his reply to the question 'Don't you believe in anything?'"