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Home - The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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This week's topics are:
This Day in Skepticism: The Billygoat Curse
News Items: The Physics of Roulette, Vitamin D and the Common Cold, Harpooning Satellites, Bee Brains
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: WTC7 Collapse
Science or Fiction
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This week's topic is:
What's the Harm?
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Oct
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2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Steven Novella, Neurologica
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to two researchers whose work was separated by 44 years – both involving the discovery that mature cells could be reprogrammed to become pluripotent cells capable of differentiating into every type of cell in the body. In 1962 John B. Gurdon replaced the nucleus from a frog embryo [...]
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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Cholesterol Tests for Children?
Harriet Hall, Science-Based Medicine
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The American Academy of Family Physicians journal American Family Physician (AFP) has a feature called Journal Club that I’ve mentioned before. Three physicians examine a published article, critique it, discuss whether to believe it or not, and put it into perspective. In the September 15 issue the journal club analyzed an article that critiqued the process [...]
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The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is a weekly Science podcast talkshow
discussing the latest news and topics from the world of the paranormal,
fringe science, and controversial claims from a scientific point of view.
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