Episode #954

Episode #954

News Items

• Driverless Cars
• Dead Whale Mystery
• Filtering Wildfire Air
• New Law of Nature Proposed
• The Real Count Dracula

Who's That Noisy

• Answer to last week: Ford Car Horn

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  A new study finds that the risk of getting Guillain Barre Syndrome within 6 weeks after COVID increases by six times, and decreases by more than half after getting the BioNTech vaccine. https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2023/10/18/WNL.0000000000207900

• Item #2 Fiction

  A new study finds that approximately 50,000 deaths per year in the Americas can be attributed to antimicrobial resistance. https://scitechdaily.com/silent-killer-amr-linked-to-over-half-a-million-deaths-in-the-americas/

• Item #3 Science

  Since 2010 the number of reported tick-borne infections in the US has increased 10 fold. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK390439/

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Our ignorance is profound, forgivable and temporary. There are only two true errors: One is believing that we have no errors left to make, and the other is believing that those errors are permanent and irreversible.” Adam Mastroianni, experimental psychologist, author of the science blog Experimental History