SGU Episode 310

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SGU Episode 310
June 22nd 2011
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SGU 309                      SGU 311
Skeptical Rogues
S: Steven Novella
B: Bob Novella
R: Rebecca Watson
J: Jay Novella
E: Evan Bernstein
Quote of the Week
“He who only knows his side of the case knows little. His reasons may have been good and no one may have been able to refute them, but if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side then he has no ground for preferring either option.”
John Stuart Mill
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Introduction

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

This Day in Skepticism ()

• June 25, 1994: In 1994, the capture of the first live specimen of the Vu Quang ox in Vietnam, a previously unknown species of mammal, was reported in the London newspaper The Times.

News Items ()

We are all mutants ()

• http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/hyper-human-mutations-60-new-mutations-in-each-genome.html

Human Gecko ()

• http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/darpa-z-man-program-to-enbale-wall.html?m=1

Creationsts Infiltrate Geology Meeting ()

• http://www.earthmagazine.org/earth/article/456-7db-6-a

Battery Man ()

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003016/The-human-sausage-sizzler-Serb-Slavisa-Pajkic-claims-20-000-Volts-harm-him.html

Who's That Noisy ()

• Answer to last week: a watermelon

Science or Fiction ()

Item #1: A review of research finds that the transition to agriculture from hunter-gathering consistently led to a decrease in height and overall health. Item #2: A recent study finds that college students who have later class start times have less daytime sleepiness and better grades. Item #3: Researchers have developed a treatment for diseases that result from genetic mutations which cause protein synthesis to stop prematurely.

Skeptical Quote of the Week ()

“He who only knows his side of the case knows little. His reasons may have been good and no one may have been able to refute them, but if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side then he has no ground for preferring either option.” - John Stuart Mill

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