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This Week: It’s Ig Nobel Season!, Cats!, Fish, Extinct Herbivores, Magic Mushrooms, Plastic Brains, Astrocyte Conductors, Social Spiders, and Much More Science to Pronounce!

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They are playing politics with women’s health… again.

This time, it’s Tylenol, aka acetaminophen,
Paracetamol, if you happen to be on the European continent.

An announcement was made that was…
I’ll say it…
Not good.

Suggesting without evidence that Tylenol was causally linked to autism

This is what it is like to be led by the scientifically illiterate

But why?
Who will benefit from the FDA slapping frightening labels on harmless medicine?
Aside from the egos of a few who want to champion a cause without the skills to do so…

Such arrogance matched with power and a lack of knowledge
It is truly a dangerous combination
Likely to cause unnecessary suffering

Speaking of causing unnecessary suffering
It is time to administer another unregulated dose of
This Week in Science

Top Science Stories to Pronounce Week!

It’s IgNobel Season!
Who are the winners of the best, most curious science award this year?

Beware of cats! 
Cat food warning

Territorial Fish
What turned fish lovers into fighters?

Bad Introductoin
Science says just don’t with the large herbivore intros.

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Science Stories to Pronounce With Justin!

Magic Mushrooms
Times two! 

Brainy Stories with Kiki!

Plastic Brains
How do polystyrene nanoparticles affect the brain?

Astrocyte Conductors
Is this really the first report of astrocytes contacting multiple synapses & neurons?

Social Spider Brains
Do social spiders have brains that are different from other spiders?

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Take a blast into the past…

What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year, we discussed It’s Climate Week!, Bacterial Quick Change, Pollinators, Bronze-Age Cheese, Ancient AI, Magma Soup, Snake Origins, Ant Queens, Mile High Microbiota, Weird Galaxies, Virtual Fish Maze, Man Brain Cycle, Slapfights, Sleep On It, And Much More Science to Pronounce!

This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Tears Of Mars, Moon Water, Big Dry Trees, New CRISPR Tool, A Viral Tree, Fake Blood, Bee Tongues, Fish Lovin’, Light Damage, BRAINy News, Memory Prosthetics, No Gravitational Waves, Proper Speaking, Sex Acts, Light Sabers, Much More Science to Pronounce!

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