Episode #1010
News Items
- Do Armed Police Make Schools Safer
- Training Medical Robots
- New Imaging Technique
- Physician Misinformation
Michael Mann
- https://earth.sas.upenn.edu/people/michael-mann
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
Analysis of a Martian meteorite indicates the presence of bodies of liquid water on the surface of Mars as late as 742 million years ago. https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2443/
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Item #2
Science
A recent study finds that doctors using ChatGPT Plus as an additional aid did no better at making diagnoses than those using only traditional methods. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2825395
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Item #3
Science
In an animal study, researchers have demonstrated the ability to deliver functional mRNA through inhalation. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c11347
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” - Carl Sagan, Demon Haunted World