Episode #533

Episode #533

News Items

• Predatory Pharmaceuticals
• Ocean Populations Declining
• Election Graphology
• Conspiracy Thinking

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: BSG

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Researchers have discovered a new layer of code within the DNA genetic code that determines the type of proteins that are made. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150923134211.htm

• Item #2 Fiction

  New fossil evidence shows that the first Australians lived along side and probably hunted giant predatory lizards the size of small elephants. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3340401/posts?page=10

• Item #3 Science

  A major world-wide effort to replicate STAP – stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency, has completely failed, falsifying this simple method for creating pluripotent stem cells. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150923133515.htm

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” ~William Lawrence Bragg