SGU Episode 138
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| SGU Episode 138 |
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| March 12th 2008 |
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| Skeptical Rogues |
| S: Steven Novella |
B: Bob Novella |
R: Rebecca Watson |
J: Jay Novella |
E: Evan Bernstein |
| Quote of the Week |
'When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.' |
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Introduction
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
News Items ()
Ghosts All in the Mind ()
- www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/02/21/scighost121.xml
www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?ArticleID=1236
Government Settles Autism-Vaccine Case ()
- www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=203
www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=66
Real Death Star ()
- www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080310-mm-grb-us.html
Drugs in the Water ()
- www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/index.html
The Skeptologists ()
- www.skeptologists.com/
Interview with Ola Fincke ()
- Ola Fincke is a member of the Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education
www.biosurvey.ou.edu/oese/
Professor and evolutionary ecologist in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma. She received an M.A. in science education from Tufts University, and taught high school science in the US and Europe before getting her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Iowa. She was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and a NATO Fellow at Oxford University. Her research focuses on the evolution of reproductive behavior, sexual conflict and speciation, and consequences of tropical forest fragmentation on insect populations. At OU, she teaches evolution, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary ecology.
endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/2008/03/special-rights-for-religious-radicals.html
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_4_27/ai_104733223
Randi Speaks ()
- The Uncompromising Observations of a Veteran Skeptic
James Randi returns to give his skeptical commentary in his own unique style.
This week's topic: Gary Schwartz
Science or Fiction ()
Question #1: Astronomers have discovered grains of sand around distant stars. Question #2: Scientists have discovered that within the Earth's inner core is yet another layer, or an inner inner core. Question #3: Contrary to the theory of island dwarfism, paleontologists have uncovered on the island of Micronesia fossils of prehistoric humans averaging over 6 feet tall.
Quote of the Week ()
'When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.'-Thucydides
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