The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe > Podcast Episodes
Episode #348
hesterk:
The nut thing is damn weird. I think of 'culinary nuts,' 'culinary seeds' and legumes and ignore the botanical categories. Except when I want to be a smug pedant and score a point. If anyone else enjoys being a pedant, the wikipedia page is good.
I'm allergic to walnuts and pecans (neither being proper nuts - seeds) and mildly sensitive to hazelnuts (actual nuts) and raw cashews. The latter two give me the same tingly mouthfeel that first alerts me to the presence of walnuts. I am absolutely crazy about nuts and seeds - my main source of protein - and wonder if this is in any way related to my allergy.
Small pieces of walnuts and pecans are identifiable by their color and veining but really small pieces look like any old nut. I hate it when chocolate cake has unidentifiable nut crumbs!
TheLostVertex:
--- Quote from: hesterk on Mar 17, 2012, 02:20:19 PM ---...I hate it when chocolate cake has unidentifiable nut crumbs!
--- End quote ---
You and me both. When ever I bake with nuts and other common allergens I make sure to explicitly tell people I am giving it to whats in it. Unless I dont like them >:D
willradik:
Good show. I always love hearing about thrusts against "CAM". Hey. How about we call non-science-based medicine MUM or Made Up Medicine. Or how about Spontaneously Conceived Unmedicine? (SCUM)
eddwilson:
BBC Radio 4 has a programme called Material World - basically science news. It recently featured a discussion with David King (previously Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government) in which he was pretty scathing about homeopathy. Some listeners emailed to complain, and one used an argument I found interesting. He said that promotion of homeopathy is not science-based but it is evidence-based, by which I assume he meant... no, I won't put words into his mouth. This distinction I hadn't heard before. It sounds like sophistry. Could it have any merit at all?
Old Hoplite:
How about a legal market for organs?
Regulated, so the doner doesn't get screwed and with proper medical care at each step.
That sounds better than 'organ-legging' as it is now.
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