Today we have an extra special episode where we talk to Dan Schachner about this year’s Puppy Bowl, then we’ll learn about the truths and myths of spontaneous human combustion, and how cancer rates in the US have gone down by 33% since the ‘90s! 

The Puppy Bowl

Human Candles 

• “Strange reports have claimed humans spontaneously burst into flames, but science can explain how bodies sometimes act like a candle wick” by Paola Rosa-Aquino
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real-or-myth-scientific-evidence
• “Man died from spontaneous human combustion, inquest finds” by Brian McDonald
  • https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-died-from-spontaneous-human-combustion-inquest-finds-26774631.html
• “Spontaneous Human Combustion in the Light of the 21st Century” by Virve Koljonen, MD, PhD and Nicolas Kluger, MD (PAYWALL)
  • https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article-abstract/33/3/e102/4588696?login=false

Cancer Rate Down   

• “US cancer death rate drops by 30% since 1991” by BBC
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64255719
• “US cancer death rate falls 33% since 1991, partly due to advances in treatment, early detection and less smoking, report says” By Jacqueline Howard
  • https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/health/us-cancer-deaths-decline-wellness/index.html
• “U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Fallen 33% Since 1991, Here’s Why” by John Loeppky
  • https://www.healthline.com/health-news/u-s-cancer-death-rate-has-fallen-33-since-1991-heres-why
• “US cancer deaths drop 33% since 1991, new report says” by J Oliver Conroy
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/14/us-cancer-deaths-drop-third-since-1991-new-report-says
• “Cancer statistics, 2023” by Rebecca L. Siegel MPH et al.
  • https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763

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