Episode #952

Episode #952

News Items

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Nobel Prize in Physics
• Radio Telescope on the Moon
• FEMA Alert Conspiracy

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Peter Popoff

Interview with Lars Martin

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lars-Martin

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Four Nobel laureates won their award while they were imprisoned.https://www.deccanherald.com/world/four-nobel-peace-laureates-who-were-in-jail-when-they-won-1151536.html

• Item #2 Fiction

  The 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Johannes Fibiger was the only one ever to be rescinded – he discovered that round worms cause cancer in mice and rats, but a mere three years after the award was given his findings were completely refuted. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11625107/

• Item #3 Science

  The Following people never won a Nobel Prize: Dmitri Mendeleev, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Jules-Henri Poincaré, and Mahatma Gandhi.https://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/10/06/mf.nobel.odd.facts/index.html

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.” ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said