Steven Novella

Steve is correct on this.

Oh, shit.

I'll say it's complicated.

Complicated.

It's a definition thing.

It depends on how you define it.

All right.

Thanks, George.

Guys, let's go on with science or fiction.

Each week I come up with three science news items or facts, two real and one fake, and I challenge my panel of expert skeptics to tell me which one they think is the fake.

No theme this week, just three regular news items.

Okay, here we go.

Item number one, researchers have developed a synthetic fabric that is highly insulating in cold temperatures, but is heat releasing at room temperature or warmer.

All right, number two, a new study finds that female chickadees, those are birds, preferentially mate with more intelligent males.

And item number three, neuroscientists at the University of Michigan have demonstrated an implantable wireless brain-computer interface that allows subjects with aphasia due to damage to their speech areas regain functional speech.

Okay, and Andrea?

The synthetic fabric is the fiction.

Yeah.

Okay.

So you guys are evenly split between the fabric and the brain-computer interface.