SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 1: Science Hoaxes
We’re delving into the complicated world of scientific hoaxes. Some are just goofs that went a little too far, but others have had serious negative impacts on public health.
Welcome, traveler, to the first episode! This is Sam from December of 2020. I can't believe, more two years later, we're still playing this goofy game!
If you're starting here, you have a long and grand adventure ahead of you. It only gets way better from here!
If you're working your way backwards... well, you did it! Hopefully a new episode will be coming out soon, otherwise what will you listen to while you do your chores??
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
Cello Scrotum:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1610985/
https://www.bmj.com/content/338/bmj.b379
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7853564.stm
Surfer’s Ear:
http://ent.uci.edu/more-at-uc-irvine/conditions/surfers-ears.asp
Jeep Butt:
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/healthpolicy/CHPR/downloads/mil_prep042605.pdf
http://www.academia.edu/19875506/Pilonidal_sinus_Jeeps_disease_An_improved_model_of_care
[Fact Off]
Mary Toft:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/aug2009.html
https://academic.oup.com/past/article/238/1/43/4822513
Parapsychology:
http://www.tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZS-Issues-PDFs/ZeteticScholarNos12-13.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.617.9791&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://www.csicop.org/uploads/files/martin-gardner-pdfs/landmark-pk-hoax.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20060503224225/http://www.banachek.org/nonflash/project_alpha.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1S5CRcqJQo
[Ask the Science Couch]
Andrew Wakefield:
https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323045/
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jan/28/andrew-wakefield-mmr-vaccine
[Butt One More Thing]
Fake coprolite:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140729-dinosaur-coprolite-paleontology-dung-fossil-auction/