Episode #450
News Items
- Genovese Myth
- Pseudoscience Vandalism
- Subway and Azodicarbonamide
- Petawatt Laser
- AIDS Denialist Silence Critic
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Atoms moving
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Scientists report new evidence that purports to find the missing mass from galaxy clusters – a previous 40% discrepancy between observations and predictions from cosmological models. http://www.nature.com/news/missing-galaxy-mass-found-1.14731
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Item #2
Fiction
New research finds that people make better decisions when they believe that outcomes are predetermined by fate. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/when-faced-with-a-hard-decision-people-tend-to-blame-
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Item #3
Science
Archaeologists report on the oldest human footprints found outside of Africa, from a UK site dated to 0.78 to 1 million years ago, pushing back the earliest known humans in northern Europe by at least 350,000 years. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088329;jsessionid=2C1165576C7B540DE436D96F55E63A39
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“Ignorance is nothing shameful; imposing ignorance is shameful. Most people are not to blame for their own ignorance, but if they wilfully pass it on, they are to blame.” – Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell