SGU Episode 622
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| SGU Episode 622 |
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| June 10th 2017 |
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| Skeptical Rogues |
| S: Steven Novella |
B: Bob Novella |
C: Cara Santa Maria |
J: Jay Novella |
E: Evan Bernstein |
| Quote of the Week |
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. |
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Introduction[edit]
You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
Movie Review ()[edit]
News Items[edit]
Dinosaur Proteins Questioned ()[edit]
Another Gravitational Wave ()[edit]
Bigelow on Aliens ()[edit]
Don’t Put Wasps Nests in your Vagina ()[edit]
Who's That Noisy ()[edit]
- Answer to last week: Piano strings
Science or Fiction ()[edit]
Item #1: Plants use three different types of photosynthesis: C3, C4, and CAM (crassulacean acid metabolism), but almost all trees use the less efficient C3 cycle. Item #2: A 206 acre stand of aspen trees in Utah is actually a single organism weighing 6 million kilograms and estimated to be 80,000 years old. Item #3: The Dragon’s Blood tree has deep red sap that has been used for centuries as a medicinal and a varnish, and contains a powerful hallucinogen similar in chemistry and effect to LSD.
Skeptical Quote of the Week ()[edit]
"Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence." - John Allen Paulos
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