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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 321 - 9/10/2011
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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.
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September 10, 2011
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Live from DragonCon 2011
This Day in Skepticism: 9-11 Comic
News Items: Diamond Planet, Homeopathic Water, Woolly Rhino, Editor Resigns of Global Warming Paper
Science or Fiction
Live Q&A
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Segment: This Day in Skepticism
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September 11, 2001
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10 year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Truther movement is still around.
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Item #1  Fiction
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A large study of firefighters finds that those exposed to the WTC area on 9/11 had no significantly altered risk of developing cancer.
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Item #2  Science
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New mouse study shows that including walnuts in the diet reduces the risk of breast cancer by about half.
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Item #3 Science
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For the first time artificially cultured red cells were injected safely into a human recipient.
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Segment: Live Q&A
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Live Q&A
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The rogues take questions from the audience.
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Segment: Skeptical Quote of the Week
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Skeptical Quote of the Week
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“I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, blown and flared by passion’s storm, and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish and and naught remain.”
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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