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== Introduction ==
''You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.''
== This Day in Skepticism () ==
* November 22, 1963: JFK Assassinated: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68717.html http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/national-geographic-channel/shows/explorer-1/ngc-restored-jfk-footage.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/the-umbrella-man.html?_r=1
== News Items () ==

=== Power Balance Bankruptcy () ===
* http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/power-balance-files-for-bankruptcy/

=== FTL Neutrinos () ===
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15830844 and http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/11/neutrino_experiment_affirms_fa.html

=== Does Water Prevent Dehydration () ===
* http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/does-drinking-water-prevent-dehydration/

=== Plate Color and Food Taste () ===
* http://www.livescience.com/17046-plate-color-flavor-psychology.html
== Who's That Noisy () ==
* Answer to last week: Law & Order
== Questions and Emails () ==

=== Question #1: SILLY Bias in Scientific Reviews () ===
<blockquote>Ha ha! A subsequent review article perhaps poking fun at those believing in the BMJ Christmas articles?... Christopher Morello ************* From the PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20018155 Ugeskr Laeger. 2009 Dec 14;171(51):3784-9. [A new scientific source of bias: SILLY bias. Analysis of citations of BMJ's Christmas articles]. [Article in Danish] Felding UA, Jørgensen KJ, Hróbjartsson A. Det Nordiske Cochrane Center, Rigshospitalet, København Ø. ah@cochrane.dk Abstract We analysed the scientific impact of systematic reviews and randomised trials published in the BMJ Christmas issues 1997-2006. The articles were mostly interpreted correctly as humorous, but the humorous dimension was overlooked with surprising ease. The result from one ironic-absurd trial on the effect of retroactive remote intercessory prayer for patients already dead or dismissed was taken at face value in 12/36 of the citing articles, and mortality data was unconditionally included in three systematic reviews. Thus, we document a new type of bias in medical research: Serious Idiopathic Loss of Ludic ironY (SILLY) bias, both in citation practices and in metaanalyses.</blockquote>
== Science or Fiction () ==
[http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-ofp-shepherd.pdf Item #1]: A new study shows that people avoid information about topics about which they are ignorant and yet deem important.
[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111121104509.htm Item #2]: Researchers have identified a protein that, when taken as daily supplement, almost triples cardiovascular and muscle endurance in human clinical trials.
[http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-doorways.html Item #3]: New research finds that walking through a doorway impairs short term memory.
== Skeptical Quote of the Week () ==
<blockquote>'At every croasroads on the road that leads to the future, tradition has placed against us ten thousand men to guard the past.' - Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck</blockquote>

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