Episode #995

Episode #995

News Items

• Progeria Treatment
• Solid State Battery
• The Cass Review
• Mammoth DNA

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Fiction

  The first modern Olympic games in 1896 involved only 14 nations, with only 241 male and 64 female athletes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics

• Item #2 Science

  The ancient Olympic games were banned in 393 AD by the Roman Emperor because they were considered pagan and conflicted with Christian values. https://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/greekpast/4881a.html

• Item #3 Science

  The 1908 Olympic games featured pistol dueling in which competitors fired wax bullets at each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_dueling_at_the_Summer_Olympics

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Scientists think that just regurgitating science is going to cut it. It’s not going to cut it. You have to realize people are bringing their backgrounds, their experiences, their personal encounters, their fears, their hopes, their dreams, all of those things. Unless we factor those things in, we’re going to fail and we’ll just continue to get trampled by the misinformation space.’ - Jessica Steier