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== Introduction ==<br />
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''<br />
== News Items <small>()</small> ==<br />
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=== Charlie Sheen 911 Truther <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.prisonplanet.com/twenty-minutes-with-the-president.html<br />
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=== Quantum Amnesia <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/aug/26/entropy-time-arrow-quantum-mechanics<br />
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=== Hulda Clark Dead <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/09/requiem_for_a_quack.php<br />
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=== Golzalez Therapy Fail <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCO.2009.22.8429v1<br />
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=== What's In Your Wallet <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6681923.ecenk in the Show Notes<br />
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=== Exomoons <small>()</small> === <br />
* http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=866<br />
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=== Great Tits Eat Bats <small>()</small> ===<br />
* http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17749-killer-birds-bite-off-bats-heads.htmlyperlink in the Show Notes<br />
== Special Report <small>()</small> ==<br />
* Richard Wiseman discusses the famous Yale Study of motivation, which does not exist.<br />
== Science or Fiction <small>()</small> ==<br />
Item # 1: A new survey shows that in the last 20 years the number of working scientists who have been contacted by journalists about their research has decreased by about 50%.<br />
Item # 2: The Chemical Abstracts Service announced that on September 7th it recorded it 50 millionth unique chemical substance.<br />
Item # 3: Research reveals that factors that predict recovery from the psychological trauma of 9/11 and similar events include less emotional control.<br />
== Live Q&amp;A <small>()</small> ==<br />
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=== Live Q&amp;A <small>()</small> ===<br />
<blockquote>The SGU takes lives questions from the audience.</blockquote><br />
== Quote of the Week <small>()</small> ==<br />
<blockquote>'What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.' - Christopher Hitchens</blockquote><br />
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