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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 166 - 9/24/2008
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.
SGU Podcasting Awards: SGU on XM: You can listen to the SGU on America's Talk XM 166 every Saturday night from 8-9pm Eastern.
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Podcast
166
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September 24, 2008
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Interview with Sharon Begley
News Items: LHC Problems, Worthless Acupuncture Studies, Japan Space Elevator, Belief and Credulity
Your Questions and E-mails: Real versus Scientific
Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question #1 -Science of the real
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In a recent discussion with my girlfriend about prayer I asked her to "give me one single instance where she could demonstrate that a prayer was actually answered".
She, of course, had no real answer but responded that "not everything real is scientific".
How can I respond to that? Can something be "real" and not "scientific".
Jim McDowell
USA
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Segment: Interview
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Interview with Sharon Begley
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Sharon Begley is the science news editor for Newsweek Magazine.
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item #1  Science
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A recent survey shows that online gamers are more physically fit than the general population
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Item #2  Fiction
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Astronomers have discovered a new class of neutron star, called a gravitar, which is more massive than the previously calculated upper limit for neutron stars.
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Item #3 Science
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A recent nutritional survey shows that most children are getting more than enough vitamins and minerals in their diet.
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth !!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!"
- Dr. Brian May
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