You will get smarter listening to this podcast. Listen, and I’ll prove it. (Results may vary).
- Wait, what? Kent Hovind, creationist and evangelical preacher, is set to be released from prison in the summer of 2015!
- Don’t forget about a related character: Ted Haggard, who, as it turns out, is completely heterosexual
- Confounding Factors! (11:10)
- Ice cream sales and drowning deaths
- Cold weather and flu infection rates
- Brain anatomy and schizophrenia
- The Hawthorne Effect: the difference between how people act when being watched vs not being watched
- Self reporting data
- High schoolers self reporting drug consumption.
- Jimmy Kimmel pokes fun of people at music festivals and fashion week, and also brings on doctors talking about vaccines
- Self reported alcohol consumption during prohibition
- Self reported data related to socially stigmatized sexual practices