Pear Review Club

You know what sucks? The current state of the economy. But also mosquitoes. This episode Bonnie is challenging common myths and questions around mosquitoes, like do they have a preference for different blood and does eating a banana increase your chance of a mozzie bite? Join us as we unpack the science and a barrel of good times!

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Landing Preference of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Human Skin Among ABO Blood Groups, Secretors or Nonsecretors, and ABH Antigens: https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-41.4.796

Chemical ecology of interactions between human skin microbiota and mosquitoes: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00908.x

Impact of Consumption of Bananas on Attraction of Anopheles stephensi to Humans: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects9040129

TESTING VITAMIN B AS A HOME REMEDY AGAINST MOSQUITOES: https://doi.org/10.2987

Uber? More like Poo-ber. Got 'em. 

This episode, Vicky takes us through the flawed science behind rideshare! Together we discuss how rideshares may actually be worse for the environment, the terrifying business practice behind Uber and the implications of the rideshare job market. So buckle up, pop a mint and enjoy the ride!

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Resources

Nature Sustainability: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00678-z

Frontier Economics: https://www.frontier-economics.com.au/publications/ride-sharing-public-transportation

Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/gig-economy-australia-work-rideshare-jobs-2020-9

This week we have a big, mini-episode about our worst fails in science and the lab things that sometimes, might ever so slightly annoy us from time to time. From bad westerns to almost fixing yourself with PFA, listen to the things you hate as presented by the people you love.

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The secret to success, wealth, fortune and fame: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/stockroom-reagents/learning-center/technical-library/mass-molarity-calculator.html

Happy Lunar new year! This episode we're taking turns to try and debunk or verify the science behind health myths as told by our Chinese parents. Join us as we learn about sighs, cold uteri, wet hair, bad knees, and how Jack, our resident ABC, broke all the rules growing up Chinese.

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Sighing/Aerophagia

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2009.06.029

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.05.013

Coldwater/Fertility

Treatment of Infertility with Chines Medicine 2nd Edition, Jane Lyttleton

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3414225

Wet hair/Headaches

Jenny

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2012.08.017

Shorts in winter/Bad knees

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2009.10.005

In 2010 there was an enemy plaguing ethical science across the world. That enemy was not correcting for multiple comparisons [when running statistical analyses on fMRI and other experiments]. This is the story of Craig M Bennet and how he and his team fought bad science using an fMRI and one dead Atlantic salmon.

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MRI and fMRI theory: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.nec.2010.11.001, https://imotions.com/blog/eeg-vs-mri-vs-fmri-differences/

Dangers of MRI: https://youtu.be/plvIEf7JsKo

Craig M Bennett's website: http://prefrontal.org/blog/about/

Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple  Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results,  2010.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/