SGU Episode 400

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SGU Episode 400
16th March 2012
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SGU 399                      SGU 401
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
B: Bob Novella
R: Rebecca Watson
J: Jay Novella
E: Evan Bernstein
Quote of the Week
Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.
Leonard Mlodinow
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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism (6:54)

• March 16, 1912: Historical badass Captain Lawrence Oates sacrifices himself for Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in the most badass way possible.

News Items

Meteorite Fossils (10:23)

Astrobiologists claim meteorite carried space algae

Duane Gish Dies (18:46)

• Duane T. Gish dies

Acupuncture Meta-Analysis (26:04)

• Revenge of the Woo
• Another Acupuncture Meta-Analysis – Low Back Pain

Quicky With Bob (44:14)

• Astronomer discovers closest star system to our sun

News Items Continued

Live to 150 (46:46)

• New drug being developed using compound found in red wine 'could help humans live until they are 150'

Who's That Noisy? (54:44)

• Answer to last week: Yvan

Science or Fiction (58:08)

Item number one. A new study finds that those infected with HIV have no increase in mortality if they are well controlled on medication. Item number two. Recently published research finds that screening colonoscopy did not increase survival. And item number three. Engineers have built a self-healing integrated-circuit chip able to repair itself and resume function even after significant damage.

Skeptical Quote of the Week (1:11:26)

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

Leonard Mlodinow

Announcements

NECSS 2013 (1:12:42)

• April 5th-7th 2013

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