Skeptics Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, August 27, 2015

Top new questions this week: Is very young lamb poisonous? I spotted an article on BBC news (repeated on several other news aggregators) about a farmer who had had his lambs stolen. There was a very specific warning given: PSNI Chief Inspector Graham ... [ nutrition ] [ news ] [ toxicology ]   asked by Richard 34 votes answered by Simon B 59 votes Does 32 g of Gatorade powder contain 33 g of carbohydrates? A screenshot of the nutrition facts of a can of Gatorade powder was posted on my Facebook feed: The label reads "Per 32 g (about 3 tbsp)", but if you read through the ingredients, the amount ... [ nutrition ] [ consumer-products ] [ nutritional-supplements ]   asked by accurate opinion 14 votes answered by Oddthinking 15 votes Do trackers hold their ears to the ground? There is a trope (in movies and cartoons and elsewhere) of Native American (or other) trackers are sometimes depicted as listening to the ground to presumably hear far away horses or other animals ... [ physics ]   asked by User 11 votes Did the Mexican Government publish a manual for how to illegally enter the US? On donaldjtrump.com, Trump writes For many years, Mexico's leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country ... [ united-states ] [ government ] [ immigration ] [ mexico ] [ trump ]   asked by DJ McMayhem 8 votes answered by March Ho 9 votes Is Snopes.Com funded by George Soros? Snopes is sort of notorious for being a relatively "bias-free" fact-checking site. However, I notice that in certain conservative circles it is written off as funded by liberals, most notably the ... [ politics ] [ money ]   asked by Andrew Hatsworth 4 votes Did Turkey and Greece attempt to gain control of NATO nuclear weapons to use on each other during the Cyprus crisis of 1963-1964? The following quote from an article on arstechnica.com, talking about PAL codes required for arming US nuclear missles, states that Turkey and Greece were attempting to gain control of nuclear weapons ... [ nuclear-weapons ] [ greece ] [ turkey ] [ cyprus ]   asked by Mikko Marttila 3 votes Did only 9700 women reply to messages on AshleyMadison.com? From Gizmodo.com: Yet another field, reply_mail_last_time, showed a similar disparity. This field contained the time when a member had last replied to a message from another person on Ashley ... [ economics ] [ dating ]   asked by Kevin Burke 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Did the Twitter account Fifndhs predict the exact World Cup results ahead of time? There was a feeling of exhilaration and excitement on Twitter, with the Twitter account @FifNdhs called "FIFA Corruption" seemingly having predicted the final result of the World Cup final hours ahead ... [ sport ] [ social-media ] [ football ]   asked by George Chalhoub 153 votes answered by George Chalhoub 236 votes Do your taste buds change every seven years? Twice in the last week I've heard and re-stated the 'fact' that your taste buds change every seven years. Example of claim: All Expert's Science for Kids Taste Buds change every 5 to 7 years and ... [ physiology ] [ taste ]   asked by Mark Mayo 17 votes answered by anonymized 5 votes Can you answer this? Was Jean-Hugues Anglade mildly wounded in the Thalys shooting? Several news sources reported and are still reporting French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade was mildly wounded in the 2015 Thalys train attack. He is quoted as claiming that the wound was a cut on his hand ... [ news ] [ france ]   asked by train 2 votes

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