Skeptics Guide #973

The Skeptics Guide To The Universe

Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – First Private Landing on the Moon https://theness.com/neurologicablog/odysseus-lands-on-the-moon/ News Item #2 – Sex Difference in the Brain https://news.yahoo.com/men-womens-brains-differently-scientists-204332939.html?guccounter=1 News Item #3 – Bee Venom for Breast Cancer https://www.cureus.com/articles/181839-bee-sting-venom-as-a-viable-therapy-for-breast-cancer-a-review-article#!/ News Item #4 – Learning Empathy https://neurosciencenews.com/empathy-learning-psychology-25657/ News Item #5 – Brightest Object https://phys.org/news/2024-02-mass-billion-suns-black-hole.amp Segment #2. Who’s That Noisy Segment #3. Quotation Game Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mail Some Corrections Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: A recent review finds that male psychopaths outnumber female psychopaths 10:1. Item 2: A new study finds that boiling tap water for 5 minutes removes up to 90% of nano and microplastics from the water. Item 3: Using AI scientists have developed a method for atomic force microscopy of material surfaces with resolutions below the width of the microscope probe tip. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Random Number Generation is too Important to be Left to Chance." Robert R. Coveyou (February 9, 1915 – February 19, 1996)