Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/11/2012- Astronomical Snake Oil

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday December 11, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis examine in some detail claims of “habitable exo-planets” orbiting around some nearby stars and find some very creative (not to mention borderline fraudulent) astronomical snake oil sales regarding possible habitability of these exo-planets, and questions about whether or not some of them are even there.

Article links- Original news article: http://scitech.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=43765&content=84843368&pageNum=-1

Habitable Exo-planets Catalog: http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog