Episode #1081

Episode #1081

News Items

• NASA Announces New Moon Plans
• The Limits of Cloning
• Giant Insects
• Pushing Exorcism
• Update on 3I/Atlas

Back to Basics

Confirmation Bias

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  About half of all deaths of children under 5 are linked to malnutrition. https://ourworldindata.org/half-child-deaths-linked-malnutrition

• Item #2 Fiction

  The most prevalent micronutrient deficiency globally is Vitamin A. https://www.who.int/health-topics/micronutrients

• Item #3 Science

  According to recent data, current fortification programs prevent 7 billion nutritional deficiencies per year. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(26)00023-9/

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Doubt everything, roughly, although most people know his most famous second saying, cogito ergo sum, the first was to doubt everything, of which he couldn’t doubt he was doubting, hence, I think, therefore I am. The cartesian coordinate system was named after him, a true polymath of his time.’ - De omnibus dubitandum – Renee Descartes