Episode 008 is out and about, placing orbs in your photos

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This week:
- Briefly: Update on Wayne Christian, Castroville TX Graduation Prayer kerfuffle, update on WOAI ghostses, Gail Lowe unconfirmed on the TX SBoE
-Lightning round (please go to the blog [below] for links to discussed articles)
- Cell phones cause cancer?
- Autism One Conference and The Woo of "The Work"...you decide
- Junk DNA and the new Intelligent Design book offering
- And the dogs do their favorite "I'm outside barking at something; I'm inside with no clue why I'm barking" and "please let me in why would you lock me out?!" routines

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Links to topics discussed (or at least a majority of them...mostly kinda in order):
Local concerns:

• Prayer outlawed at Medina school
• http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Prayer-outlawed-from-Castroville-graduation/FneUQ8DknUyffJc7pUQ4LA.cspx
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• Statesman.com : Education board about to lose another leader
• http://m.statesman.com/statesman/pm_23035/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=4datiiXF
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• WOAI ghost update
• http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Evidence-Scrutinized-The-Haunting-of-Fort-Sam/hhm8ZBJick2SnJ-QNLNmFw.cspx?rss=68

Lightning Round:

• Psychic Science
• http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8469105.htm

• Belgian Activists Destroy Genetically Modified Food test
• http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/belgian-protesters-destroy-gm-field-trial/

• 7 Scientists indicted for failing to predict/ warn about earthquake
• http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iH2KWb3f5bwajaliBgE_p6TmfpvA?docId=
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• Egyptian general admits soldiers performed ‘virginity tests’
• http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/egyptian-general-admits-virginity-tests-were-carried-out-on-protesters/
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• The VA and "Jesus Christ"
• http://www.woai.com/news/state/story/VA-backs-off-will-let-pastor-say-Jesus-Christ/4q-SY4pNO0ySa1PdbSr57g.cspx
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• Circumcision Ban
• http://www.examiner.com/family-issues-in-los-angeles/circumcision-ban-challenges-freedom-of-religion-1
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• News Republic : Ill. diocese ends adoptions over gay rights law
• http://bit.ly/ifDkMe
• http://us.news-republic.com
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• Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescriptions: Asthma
• http://yourlife.usatoday.com/parenting-family/story/2011/05/Too-many-kids-getting-antibiotics-for-asthma/47728886/1

Long Topics:

WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk

• http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/
• http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011/05/31/who-verdict-on-mobile-phones-and-cancer/

Autism One, The Work:

• Measles Vaccination Neglience
• http://topnews.us/content/240707-measles-vaccination-negligence-us-residents-agonizing
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• http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/measles-outbreaks-2011/
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• http://skepchick.org/2011/05/autism-one-conference-skeptics-will-be-prosecuted-to-the-fullest-extent-of-the-law/
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• http://friendlyatheist.com/2011/05/30/how-i-got-kicked-out-of-the-autismone-con-part-2/

• Washington Suspends Anti-vaxer
• http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Controverisal-autism-doctor-suspended-in-1399027.php

• "The Work"
• http://thework.com/thework.php

Junk DNA

• Evolution vs. ID, New book by Jonathan Wells says that the myth of junk DNA is dead and that's a good the for Intelligent Design. The Myth of Junk DNA by Jonathan Wells.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7UrUuakwPI&feature=youtube_gdata_player