Great mistakes

The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakesPhil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses -- through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. "The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding," he says.

Is alcohol good for human health?

This experiment is a great example of how important is to choose good study sets in experiments done with living things. In this case, different humans were studied and evaluated based based on their alcohol consumption. Listen to the podcast to learn about how good science should be done!

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