Episode 020 gets weirded out by PK cockroaches

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This Week:
Quickies:
- Earthquake in Virginia
- Texas Freethought Convention (www.texasfreethoughtconvention.com)
- We're doing a lkive show in San Antonio next week
- David Mabus
Bill Clinton goes Vegan
West Memphis Three released
Teacher acquitted of anti-creationism
INteresting parasychology guy Helmut Schmidt dies
Lightning Round

And special silent treatment by the dogs (though they make a show of eatng at us at some point)

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The Big Board

The Big Board for 019

Yeah, I forgot...what?!

Episode 019 effortlessly does it's multiplication tables

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This week:
Arkansas Coalition of Reason bus campaign update
Health stories:
- Perry OKs vaccination for universities
- Breakthrough leukemia drug trial
- DRACO kills all viruses?
- first Vampire bat bite death in US
- Ultra thin electronic medical  device
Poe's Corner
Conservative versus liberal thinking study
DNA material found in a meteorite
Lightning Round
Everybody go to the Texas Freethought Convention Aug 7-9, 2011 in Houston, TX!
www.texasfreethoughconvention.com

With a special interjection or two by Dog the Younger.

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Help bring some skepticism to SXSW in 2012

Brian Dunning of the "Skeptoid" podcast and "In Fact" vodcast fame is a proposed interactive event for South By Southwest 2012. Go to the link below and vote "This Rocks" so Brian can help make Austin a little less weird (in a good way).

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/8736?return=%2Fideas%2Findex%2F10%2Fname%3Abeyond%2Fpage%3A2

You do have to register an account, but they promise not to put you on any mailing lists. But we all have that extra Yahoo or Gmail account that we only use for this type of thing, right?

This week's Poe for Episode 019

The following quotes were culled from youtube videos.
Which one of the following is a person pretending to be a Fundamentalist Christian? Bonus if you know who said them!

1. I think that the Bible is the most scientifically accurate book in the entire world


2. Where in the Bible does it say God will heal amputees?... God never said he would and he doesn't. That aligns perfectly with my definition of God. Why SHOULD God heal amputees, he's the one who allowed you to lose your arm in the first place! Does God have a moral obligation to heal someone who has sinned against him? Absolutely not... So, why doesn't God heal amputees? Because they don't deserve their arms, we deserve to die, that's what the Bible teaches. 


3. You can't prove that God exists with a picture: he's invisible. But everything in the world is evidence of God's creation, simply because it's here. So the non-believers are the ones who have to provide evidence for their non beliefs. Confused? Well, keep watching and try not to think too hard: this stuff is actually very simple.


4. I eat bread and drink wine in order to remember starving people in the world. That aligns perfectly with my definition of Christian, so Mom and Dad and I would get together and eat ten different herbs, and eggs, and bitter herbs, and stuff like that as a remembrance of starving people. Through feasts, we remember certain things, and by eating bread, we remember the act of chewing, the breaking, and I don't have a moral obligation to feed all the fallen, sinful people. Absolutely not.

Exhaustive Schedules

We've all heard the advice of not driving when tired because we make unwise decisions behind the wheel. I definitely remember taking finals on no sleep and looking at the questions as if there were written in Swahili instead of good ole American English. One particular area that has come under fire in recent years is medical school. Talk to an intern or resident and they will regale you with tales of being on shift for 36 hours at a time. More and more schools are requiring that their medical students be subjected to a more regulated schedule with interns and residents only working a maximum of 80 hours per week.

But is that a solution to medical mistakes?

On Rick Perry and the death penalty

On last week's show, I made an off-the-cuff remark that “...Bachmann hasn't killed an innocent person”. I think I should explain myself, as that is a very serious assertion and I don't like to cast unwarranted aspersions.

The event that I was referencing (though I did not state it in the discussion) was the state execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was accused, convicted, and eventually executed for killing his children by setting fire to his house while they were inside. I am not going to go through the trial and all of the evidence as there are other pieces written that cover it thoroughly, specifically the big investigative piece by the New Yorker in 2009 (1.).