SGU Episode 57: Difference between revisions

From SGUTranscripts
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Fix qow)
m (first pass updating skeleton)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Episode|8|23|2006}}<!--
** Use {{Episode|M|D|YYYY}} for the outline. This will generate a green message box asking for help with transcribing the episode.
** If you intend to transcribe the _whole_ episode, please _REPLACE_ the "Episode" or "900s" template above with the "transcribing all" template:
{{transcribing all
|date = YYYY-MM-DD
|transcriber = (optional)
|time = (optional; use HHMM (Enter the 24-hour time in GMT) )
|}}
** If you _only_ want to work on a section, just add the "transcribing section" template BELOW the "Episode" or "900s" template above to indicate you are not working on the entire transcription:
{{transcribing section
|date = YYYY-MM-DD
|transcriber = (optional)
|time = (optional; use HHMM (Enter the 24-hour time in GMT) )
|}}
** If you use the "transcribing section" template (placing it here, at the top of the transcript under the "Episode"/"900s" template), make sure you _also_ have a "transcribing" template above whichever section you're currently working on:
{{transcribing
|date = YYYY-MM-DD
|transcriber = (optional)
|time = (optional; use HHMM (Enter the 24-hour time in GMT) )
|}}
**        *** Once transcription is complete, please delete this entire "Episode" markup section! ***
-->
{{Editing required
{{Editing required
|transcription         = y
|transcription = y
<!-- |proof-reading          = y    please remove commenting mark-up when some transcription is present -->
|proofreading = <!-- please only activate when some transcription is present. -->
|time-stamps           = y
|time-stamps = y <!-- delete when all time-stamps have been added -->
|formatting             = y
|formatting = y
|links                 = y
|links = y
|Today I Learned list   = y
|Today I Learned list = y
|categories             = y
|categories = y <!-- try to avoid assigning categories to whole episodes; redirect pages should be categorized for clearer links to categories... delete this line when all sections have been categorized -->
|segment redirects     = y     <!-- redirect pages for segments with head-line type titles -->
|segment redirects = y <!-- redirect pages for segments with head-line type titles -->
|}}
|}}
{{ThisOutline}} <!-- Remove this message if you've outlined all the episode's segments -->
{{UseOutline}} <!-- Remove when transcription is complete -->
{{InfoBox
{{InfoBox
|episodeNum     = 57
|episodeNum = 57
|episodeDate   = August 23<sup>rd</sup> 2006 <!-- broadcast date -->
|episodeDate = August 23<sup>rd</sup> 2006
|episodeIcon   = File:Pluto.jpg         <!-- use "File:" and file name for image on show notes page-->
|episodeIcon = File:Pluto.jpg
|previous      =                         <!-- not required, automates to previous episode -->
 
|next          =                       <!-- not required, automates to next episode -->
|verified = <!-- leave blank until verified, then put a 'y'-->
|rebecca        = y                        <!-- leave blank if absent -->
 
|bob           = y                         <!-- leave blank if absent -->
|caption = Add an appropriate caption here for the episode icon
|jay           = y                         <!-- leave blank if absent -->
<!--  
|evan          = y                         <!-- leave blank if absent -->
 
|perry          =                         <!-- leave blank if absent -->
Clear this above parameter to add your caption. You can use [_link_URL_ _caption_or_short_blurb_for_link_text_] to make all or part of the caption have a weblink. Alternatively, replace this parameter with the one below for a caption for a "hidden" image; note that you can't put a weblink inside the transclusion [[ ]], so you'd have to make a separate part of the caption be the text for a URL. You could use a <ref> reference_here </ref> tag instead, of course.
|guest1         =     <!-- leave blank if no guest -->
 
|guest2        =                           <!-- leave blank if no second guest -->
-->
|guest3        =                           <!-- leave blank if no third guest -->
 
|bob =y
|jay =y
|Evan =y
|rebecca =y
|guest1 =[https://www.scienceinmedicine.org/fellows/Sarner.html Larry Sarner, mathematician and inventor]
 
|qowText = QUOTE
|qowAuthor = AUTHOR, _short_description_ <!-- use a {{w|wikilink}} or use <ref name=author>[URL PUBLICATION: TITLE]</ref>, description (Use a first reference if there's an article attached to the quote. The second article reference is in the QoW section. See Episode 762 for an example.) -->

 
|downloadLink  = http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2006-08-23.mp3
|downloadLink  = http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2006-08-23.mp3
|forumLink      = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,323.0.html
|forumLink      = http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,323.0.html
|}}
|}}


== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''
{{anchor|news#}} <!-- leave this news item anchor directly above the news item section that follows -->
== News Items <small>()</small> ==
== News Items <small>()</small> ==


=== Water Tree mystery solved <small>()</small> ===
=== Water Tree mystery solved <small>()</small> ===
* www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060817-022000-8116r<br/>
* www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060817-022000-8116r<br/>
{{shownotes
|weblink =
|article_title = <!-- please replace ALL CAPS with Title Case or Sentence case -->
|publication = <!-- enter nn for Neurologica :-) -->
}}


=== Mystery animal in Maine <small>()</small> ===
=== Mystery animal in Maine <small>()</small> ===
* www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208683,00.html
* www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208683,00.html
{{shownotes
|weblink =
|article_title = <!-- please replace ALL CAPS with Title Case or Sentence case -->
|publication = <!-- enter nn for Neurologica :-) -->
}}


=== Creationism Update <small>()</small> ===
=== Creationism Update <small>()</small> ===
* Creationists Attempt to Link Darwin to Hitler<br/>www.rawstory.com/news/2006/New_TV_special_featuring_Coulter_ties_0819.html<br/><br/>Evolution Strangely Missing from Government Science Grants<br/>chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=v6pywllczrz22q3ybkb4b94qrx35ckr7<br/>
* Creationists Attempt to Link Darwin to Hitler<br/>www.rawstory.com/news/2006/New_TV_special_featuring_Coulter_ties_0819.html<br/><br/>Evolution Strangely Missing from Government Science Grants<br/>chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=v6pywllczrz22q3ybkb4b94qrx35ckr7<br/>
{{shownotes
|weblink =
|article_title = <!-- please replace ALL CAPS with Title Case or Sentence case -->
|publication = <!-- enter nn for Neurologica :-) -->
}}


=== Pluto Blues IAU votes on definition of Planet <small>()</small> ===  
=== Pluto Blues IAU votes on definition of Planet <small>()</small> ===  
* www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/NEWS.55.0.html<br/>www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9818-astronomers-lean-towards-eight-planets.html
* www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/NEWS.55.0.html<br/>www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9818-astronomers-lean-towards-eight-planets.html
{{shownotes
|weblink =
|article_title = <!-- please replace ALL CAPS with Title Case or Sentence case -->
|publication = <!-- enter nn for Neurologica :-) -->
}}
== Questions and E-mails <small>()</small> ==
== Questions and E-mails <small>()</small> ==


Line 48: Line 113:
<blockquote>Hello,<br/>First I wanted to thank you guys for such an excellent job with the podcast. I discovered it a few month ago and I'm in love (I think my husband is getting jealous - I'm spending a lot more time listening to my MP3 player catching up on the episodes I've missed) Your podcast is such a breath of fresh air.<br/><br/>I am an MD/PhD student, and as medical students we are taught not to challenge patients ideas about their heath, but to work with them and incorporate their believes into the 'standard' medical care. The idea is to make sure they do not abandon you as their doctor all together for an alternative practitioner. As much as it hurts my skeptical sensibilities, I can't entirely disagree with this approach, nor can I come up with a better alternative. So, health professionals are left to perpetuate all kinds of unscientific nonsense or to loose your patient, thus jeopardizing their health. Today I run across an article about acupuncture: www.infopoems.com/infopoems/dailyInfoPOEM.cfm?view=93825 (this is the InfoPOEMs summary with a link to an actual article)<br/><br/>I have a number of concerns about the subject. Most of all I am worried about health professionals (rather than patients or acupuncturist who don't give science much credit anyway) walking away form reading such articles with 'acupuncture works' message and going on to tell their patients about it. On a different note, it is not wise to ignore the evidence if it is there. Assuming the study design is valid (at least I could not see anything glaringly wrong with it), I am trying to think of why it would show the results it did show. Fibromyalgia is an unusual disease, and as far as I know one of the theories about its etiology is diminished blood flow the areas of pain (which is somehow psychologically mediated). The supporting evidence for that would be the fact that both antidepressants and exercise help. Do you think it is possible that putting a needle in would increase the blood flo</blockquote>
<blockquote>Hello,<br/>First I wanted to thank you guys for such an excellent job with the podcast. I discovered it a few month ago and I'm in love (I think my husband is getting jealous - I'm spending a lot more time listening to my MP3 player catching up on the episodes I've missed) Your podcast is such a breath of fresh air.<br/><br/>I am an MD/PhD student, and as medical students we are taught not to challenge patients ideas about their heath, but to work with them and incorporate their believes into the 'standard' medical care. The idea is to make sure they do not abandon you as their doctor all together for an alternative practitioner. As much as it hurts my skeptical sensibilities, I can't entirely disagree with this approach, nor can I come up with a better alternative. So, health professionals are left to perpetuate all kinds of unscientific nonsense or to loose your patient, thus jeopardizing their health. Today I run across an article about acupuncture: www.infopoems.com/infopoems/dailyInfoPOEM.cfm?view=93825 (this is the InfoPOEMs summary with a link to an actual article)<br/><br/>I have a number of concerns about the subject. Most of all I am worried about health professionals (rather than patients or acupuncturist who don't give science much credit anyway) walking away form reading such articles with 'acupuncture works' message and going on to tell their patients about it. On a different note, it is not wise to ignore the evidence if it is there. Assuming the study design is valid (at least I could not see anything glaringly wrong with it), I am trying to think of why it would show the results it did show. Fibromyalgia is an unusual disease, and as far as I know one of the theories about its etiology is diminished blood flow the areas of pain (which is somehow psychologically mediated). The supporting evidence for that would be the fact that both antidepressants and exercise help. Do you think it is possible that putting a needle in would increase the blood flo</blockquote>


{{anchor|interview}} <!-- leave this anchor directly above the corresponding section that follows -->
== Interview with Larry Sarner <small>()</small> ==
== Interview with Larry Sarner <small>()</small> ==
{{Page categories
|Interview = <!--
search for Larry Sarner interview: TOPIC (57), then edit that page with:
#REDIRECT
[[SGU_Episode_57#interview]]
[[Category:Interview]]
Instead of adding an entire episode to a category, once redirects have been created, we suggest typing "redirect(s) created for" in front of the text you hide in the markup that follows the category name, seen in the "page categories" template above.
We suggest typing "redirect(s) created for" in front of the text you hide in the markup. -->
}}
* [https://www.scienceinmedicine.org/fellows/Sarner.html Larry Sarner, mathematician and inventor], known for fighting anti-scientific medical practices
<!--
** start section transcription here **
-->
<!-- If this blurb isn't in the episode, we can lose it. The show notes do occasionally have content that doesn't need to be in the related transcript.
* Larry Sarner is dedicated to fighting anti-scientific medical practices. His efforts have focused on Therapeutic Touch, Attachment Therapy, Naturopathy, and the anti-flouridation movement. He is a member of the National Council Against Health Fraud and is an official with the Advocates for Children in Therapy.<br/><br/>Author of Attachment Therapy On Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker<br/>www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7675.aspx<br/><br/>Pro-fluoridation website<br/>www.healthysmiles.org/home.shtml<br/><br/>Articles by Sarner:<br/>www.phact.org/e/tt/sarner.htm<br/>
* Larry Sarner is dedicated to fighting anti-scientific medical practices. His efforts have focused on Therapeutic Touch, Attachment Therapy, Naturopathy, and the anti-flouridation movement. He is a member of the National Council Against Health Fraud and is an official with the Advocates for Children in Therapy.<br/><br/>Author of Attachment Therapy On Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker<br/>www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7675.aspx<br/><br/>Pro-fluoridation website<br/>www.healthysmiles.org/home.shtml<br/><br/>Articles by Sarner:<br/>www.phact.org/e/tt/sarner.htm<br/>
== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==
-->
Question #1: South American Indians were able to smelt platinum long before the technology was available to reach platinum's melting point of 1768.9 C - a temperature unattainable until the nineteenth century.
 
Question #2: Although corn was cultivated in the Americas, it was developed from a grass known only to exist in Asia.
{{anchor|sof}}{{anchor|theme}} <!-- leave these anchors directly above the corresponding section that follows -->
Question #3: The sides of the Giza pyramids deviate from a N-S alignment by 3/60 of a degree (3 minutes of arc).  
== Science or Fiction <small>(h:mm:ss)</small> ==
<!--
** begin transcription below the following templates, including host reading the items **
-->
{{Page categories
|SoF with a Theme = <!--
 
search for "THEME (57 SoF)" to create a redirect page, then edit that page with:
 
#REDIRECT
[[SGU_Episode_57#theme]]
[[Category:SoF with a Theme]]
 
Instead of adding an entire episode to a category, once redirects have been created, we suggest typing "redirect(s) created for" in front of the text you hide in the markup that follows the category name, seen in the "page categories" template above -->
}}
{{SOFinfo
|theme = <!-- delete or leave blank if no theme -->
 
|item1 = South American Indians were able to smelt platinum long before the technology was available to reach platinum's melting point of 1768.9 C - a temperature unattainable until the nineteenth century.
|link1web = url_from_SoF_show_notes <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link1pub = _publication_ <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link1title = _article_title_ <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
 
|item2 = Although corn was cultivated in the Americas, it was developed from a grass known only to exist in Asia.
|link2web = url_from_SoF_show_notes <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link2pub = _publication_ <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link2title = _article_title_ <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
 
|item3 = The sides of the Giza pyramids deviate from a N-S alignment by 3/60 of a degree (3 minutes of arc).
|link3web = url_from_SoF_show_notes <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link3pub = _publication_ <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
|link3title = _article_title_ <!-- delete or leave blank if none -->
 
|}}
{{SOFResults
|fiction = <!-- short word or phrase representing the item -->
|science1 = <!-- short word or phrase representing the item -->
|science2 = <!-- delete or leave blank if absent -->
 
|rogue1 = <!-- rogues in order of response -->
|answer1 = <!-- item guessed, using word or phrase from above -->
 
|rogue2 =
|answer2 =
 
|rogue3 =
|answer3 =
 
|rogue4 =
|answer4 =
 
|host =steve <!-- asker of the questions; change name if other than steve -->
<!-- for the result options below,
    only put a 'y' next to one. -->
|sweep = <!-- all the Rogues guessed wrong -->
|clever = <!-- each item was guessed (Steve's preferred result) -->
|win = <!-- at least one Rogue guessed wrong, but not them all -->
|swept = <!-- all the Rogues guessed right -->
}}
''Voice-over: It's time for Science or Fiction.''
<!--
** start section transcription here **
-->
 
=== _Rogue_ Response ===
 
=== _Rogue_ Response ===
 
=== _Rogue_ Response ===
 
=== _Rogue_ Response ===
 
=== Steve Explains Item #_n_ ===
 
=== Steve Explains Item #_n_ ===
 
=== Steve Explains Item #_n_ ===
 
== Skeptical Puzzle <small>()</small> ==
== Skeptical Puzzle <small>()</small> ==
<blockquote>New Puzzle:<br/><br/>A man, a chemist, a pastor by trade<br/>In search of a cure he thought he had made<br/><br/>For the prevention and cure of scurvy, he wrote<br/>His newest discovery he had hoped to gloat<br/><br/>The public's belief in this product was fast<br/>Dermatitis and rheumatism would be things of the past.<br/><br/>As time passed on, and the ills still remained<br/>The product itself would garnish new fame<br/><br/>Still the pharmacies sold it, it would become a tradition<br/>People bought it by the hundreds, the thousands, and millions<br/><br/>For that man long ago we must give our thanks,<br/>While he tinkered with elements, currents, and plants<br/><br/>And though he did not rid the world of rickets or piles<br/>To billions of people, we attribute their smiles.<br/><br/><br/>Who was he and what was his discovery?</blockquote>
<blockquote>New Puzzle:<br/><br/>A man, a chemist, a pastor by trade<br/>In search of a cure he thought he had made<br/><br/>For the prevention and cure of scurvy, he wrote<br/>His newest discovery he had hoped to gloat<br/><br/>The public's belief in this product was fast<br/>Dermatitis and rheumatism would be things of the past.<br/><br/>As time passed on, and the ills still remained<br/>The product itself would garnish new fame<br/><br/>Still the pharmacies sold it, it would become a tradition<br/>People bought it by the hundreds, the thousands, and millions<br/><br/>For that man long ago we must give our thanks,<br/>While he tinkered with elements, currents, and plants<br/><br/>And though he did not rid the world of rickets or piles<br/>To billions of people, we attribute their smiles.<br/><br/><br/>Who was he and what was his discovery?</blockquote>


{{Outro39}}
{{Outro39}}
== Today I Learned ==
* Fact/Description, possibly with an article reference<ref>[url_for_TIL publication: title]</ref> <!-- add this format to include a referenced article, maintaining spaces: <ref>[URL publication: title]</ref> -->
* Fact/Description
* Fact/Description
== Notes ==
<references group=note/> <!--
** To create a note, type <ref group=note> then add the TEXT, LINK, etc. </ref> after the relevant text, or after the punctuation mark if the text to be noted is at the end of a sentence. -->
== References ==
== References ==
<references/>
<references/>
=== Vocabulary ===
<references group=v/> <!--
** To tag a vocab word in your transcription, type <ref group=v>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WORD Wiktionary: WORD]</ref> after the word, or after the punctuation mark if the vocab word is the last word in a sentence. -->
{{Navigation}} <!-- inserts images that link to the previous and next episode pages -->
{{Page categories <!-- it helps to write a short description with the (episode number) which can then be used to search for the [Short description (nnnn)]s to create pages for redirects.
Instead of adding an entire episode to a category, once redirects have been created, we suggest typing "redirect(s) created for" in front of the text you hide in the markup that follows the category name, seen in this "page categories" template. Make sure the redirect has the appropriate categories. As an example, the redirect "Eugenie Scott interview: Evolution Denial Survey (842)" is categorized into
[[Category:Interview]] and [[Category:Nature & Evolution]] -->
|Live Recording = <!-- search for TITLE (nnnn) to create a redirect page,
then edit that page with:
#REDIRECT
[[SGU_Episode_nnnn]]
[[Category:Live Recording]] -->
|Alternative Medicine =
|Astronomy & Space Science =
|Cons, Scams & Hoaxes =
|Conspiracy Theories =
|Creationism & ID =
|Cryptozoology =
|Energy Healing =
|Entertainment =
|ESP =
|General Science =
|Ghosts & Demons =
|History =
|Homeopathy =
|Humor =
|Legal Issues & Regulations =
|Logic & Philosophy =
|Myths & Misconceptions =
|Nature & Evolution =
|Neuroscience & Psychology =
|New Age =
|Paranormal =
|Physics & Mechanics =
|Politics =
|Prophecy =
|Pseudoscience =
|Religion & Faith =
|Science & Education =
|Science & Medicine =
|Science & the Media =
|SGU =
|Technology =
|UFOs & Aliens =
|Amendments =
|Forgotten Superheroes of Science =
|This Day in Skepticism =
|Women in History =


{{Navigation}} <!-- inserts images that link to the previous and next episode pages -->
|Other =
|Skeptical Puzzle =
}}

Revision as of 13:54, 8 February 2023

  Emblem-pen-green.png This transcript is not finished. Please help us finish it!
Add a Transcribing template to the top of this transcript before you start so that we don't duplicate your efforts.
  Emblem-pen-orange.png This episode needs: transcription, time stamps, formatting, links, 'Today I Learned' list, categories, segment redirects.
Please help out by contributing! 		How to Contribute

This is an outline for a typical episode's transcription. Not all of these segments feature in each episode.
There may also be additional/special segments not listed in this outline.

You can use this outline to help structure the transcription. Click "Edit" above to begin.

SGU Episode 57
August 23rd 2006
Pluto.jpg

Add an appropriate caption here for the episode icon

SGU 56                      SGU 58

Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella

B: Bob Novella

R: Rebecca Watson

J: Jay Novella

E: Evan Bernstein

Guest

Larry Sarner, mathematician and inventor

Quote of the Week

QUOTE

AUTHOR, _short_description_ 


Links
Download Podcast
Show Notes
Forum Discussion


Introduction

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

News Items ()

Water Tree mystery solved ()

  • www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060817-022000-8116r
  • [url_from_show_notes _article_title_][1]


Mystery animal in Maine ()

  • www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208683,00.html
  • [url_from_show_notes _article_title_][2]


Creationism Update ()

  • Creationists Attempt to Link Darwin to Hitler
    www.rawstory.com/news/2006/New_TV_special_featuring_Coulter_ties_0819.html

    Evolution Strangely Missing from Government Science Grants
    chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=v6pywllczrz22q3ybkb4b94qrx35ckr7
  • [url_from_show_notes _article_title_][3]


Pluto Blues IAU votes on definition of Planet ()

  • www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/NEWS.55.0.html
    www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9818-astronomers-lean-towards-eight-planets.html
  • [url_from_show_notes _article_title_][4]


Questions and E-mails ()

Follow up on Acupuncture ()

Hello,
First I wanted to thank you guys for such an excellent job with the podcast. I discovered it a few month ago and I'm in love (I think my husband is getting jealous - I'm spending a lot more time listening to my MP3 player catching up on the episodes I've missed) Your podcast is such a breath of fresh air.

I am an MD/PhD student, and as medical students we are taught not to challenge patients ideas about their heath, but to work with them and incorporate their believes into the 'standard' medical care. The idea is to make sure they do not abandon you as their doctor all together for an alternative practitioner. As much as it hurts my skeptical sensibilities, I can't entirely disagree with this approach, nor can I come up with a better alternative. So, health professionals are left to perpetuate all kinds of unscientific nonsense or to loose your patient, thus jeopardizing their health. Today I run across an article about acupuncture: www.infopoems.com/infopoems/dailyInfoPOEM.cfm?view=93825 (this is the InfoPOEMs summary with a link to an actual article)

I have a number of concerns about the subject. Most of all I am worried about health professionals (rather than patients or acupuncturist who don't give science much credit anyway) walking away form reading such articles with 'acupuncture works' message and going on to tell their patients about it. On a different note, it is not wise to ignore the evidence if it is there. Assuming the study design is valid (at least I could not see anything glaringly wrong with it), I am trying to think of why it would show the results it did show. Fibromyalgia is an unusual disease, and as far as I know one of the theories about its etiology is diminished blood flow the areas of pain (which is somehow psychologically mediated). The supporting evidence for that would be the fact that both antidepressants and exercise help. Do you think it is possible that putting a needle in would increase the blood flo

Interview with Larry Sarner ()

Science or Fiction (h:mm:ss)

Item #1: South American Indians were able to smelt platinum long before the technology was available to reach platinum's melting point of 1768.9 C - a temperature unattainable until the nineteenth century.[5]
Item #2: Although corn was cultivated in the Americas, it was developed from a grass known only to exist in Asia.[6]
Item #3: The sides of the Giza pyramids deviate from a N-S alignment by 3/60 of a degree (3 minutes of arc).[7]

Answer Item
Fiction
Science
Host Result
Steve
Rogue Guess

Voice-over: It's time for Science or Fiction.

_Rogue_ Response

_Rogue_ Response

_Rogue_ Response

_Rogue_ Response

Steve Explains Item #_n_

Steve Explains Item #_n_

Steve Explains Item #_n_

Skeptical Puzzle ()

New Puzzle:

A man, a chemist, a pastor by trade
In search of a cure he thought he had made

For the prevention and cure of scurvy, he wrote
His newest discovery he had hoped to gloat

The public's belief in this product was fast
Dermatitis and rheumatism would be things of the past.

As time passed on, and the ills still remained
The product itself would garnish new fame

Still the pharmacies sold it, it would become a tradition
People bought it by the hundreds, the thousands, and millions

For that man long ago we must give our thanks,
While he tinkered with elements, currents, and plants

And though he did not rid the world of rickets or piles
To billions of people, we attribute their smiles.


Who was he and what was his discovery?

S: The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by the New England Skeptical Society. For information on this and other podcasts, please visit our website at www.theskepticsguide.org. Please send us your questions, suggestions, and other feedback; you can use the "Contact Us" page on our website, or you can send us an email to info@theskepticsguide.org. 'Theorem' is produced by Kineto and is used with permission.

Today I Learned

  • Fact/Description, possibly with an article reference[8]
  • Fact/Description
  • Fact/Description

Notes

References

  1. ↑ [url_from_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  2. ↑ [url_from_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  3. ↑ [url_from_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  4. ↑ [url_from_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  5. ↑ [url_from_SoF_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  6. ↑ [url_from_SoF_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  7. ↑ [url_from_SoF_show_notes _publication_: _article_title_]
  8. ↑ [url_for_TIL publication: title]

Vocabulary


Navi-previous.png Back to top of page Navi-next.png
Retrieved from "https://www.sgutranscripts.org/w/index.php?title=SGU_Episode_57&oldid=17428"