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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism ( )

News Items

Show #360: SGU Comes full circle ( )

Transit of Venus ( )

NASA: 2012 transit of Venus


Legislating Science ( )

Neurologica: Legislating Science in North Carolina


Science Education ( )

ClassroomScience.org: Second Year Science Graduation Requirement Elimination: Governor Stands Firm

OC Register: Calif. students rank 47th in science

NCSE: Creationist success in South Korea?


Quickie with Bob: Vapor Storage ( )

Discovery news: Movie Frames Saved to Atomic Vapor

Who's That Noisy? ( )

Answer to last week: holosystolic murmur

Questions and Emails ( )

Peer Review

Steve, I know that you know what peer review is, but I think you sometimes mislead your audience when you mention that some new idea has not yet gone through "peer review" as a way to validate the claims of the idea. Peer review is just the initial step in the validation process. It is a series of experts who review a paper to make sure that there is no blatant error or mistake in what has been written. Once a paper has gone through peer review and then is published, the real validation then begins as other scientists try to duplicate the results. Only after repeated cases of duplicating the results or of failed attempts to invalidate it, does the claim start to have validity. Peer review does not help against collecting faulty data or downright fraud. And it is sometimes possible that the claim is not true even though it seems to have been validated. This last case is what pseudoscientists count on - that their claim is the one out of thousands that will overturn established scientific principles, something that rarely happens. A discussion of this might make an interesting segment on the SGU. Marv Zelkowitz Columbia, MD


Science or Fiction ( )

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Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:14:36)

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Ray Bradbury


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