Episode #413

Episode #413

News Items

• Vaccine Refusal
• Seeing Ultraviolet
• Ape Feet
• Elizabeth I a Man?

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Anne Sullivan

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  A new study finds that only 5% of people properly wash their hands after using the bathroom. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/eww-only-5-percent-wash-hands-correctly/

• Item #2 Science

  Researchers find that 35% of designated drivers still drank alcohol, most to the point of impairing their driving. http://news.ufl.edu/2013/06/10/designated-drivers/

• Item #3 Fiction

  Despite being mandatory in some hospitals, less than 50% of health care workers received the flu vaccine in 2012. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/healthcareworkers.htm

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.’ —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.