SGU Episode 254

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SGU Episode 254
May 26th 2010
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SGU 253                      SGU 255
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
B: Bob Novella
R: Rebecca Watson
J: Jay Novella
E: Evan Bernstein
Quote of the Week
'Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals
the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.' Martin Gardner
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Introduction

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

News Items ()

Energy of Early Life ()

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100525094906.htm

End for Mars Phoenix Lander and Atlantis ()

• http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64O06N20100525

Vaccine Safety ()

• http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1976

Accepting Science ()

• http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/05/psychological-barriers-facing-mmr.html http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123328312/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp15_3.pdf

Exonerated by Acupuncture ()

• http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article466250.ece/Acupuncturist-pricks-holes-in-rape-conviction

Who's That Noisy ()

• Answer to last week: Michael Savage

Interview with James Randi ()

• Randi discusses his life-long friend, Martin Gardner, who passed away this week at 95.

Science or Fiction ()

Item #1: Doctors recently diagnosed a man as having the first ever brain infection with a computer virus. Item #2: Scientists have built the word's smallest electronic device - a transistor consisting of only 7 atoms. Item #3: New studies find that having allergies significantly reduces the risk of acquiring certain cancers.

Quote of the Week ()

'Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.' Martin Gardner

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