204: Stacy Rumaker on Parkinson's Cures in Your Guts, Diabetes Treatments From Platypus Butts and Is The Planet Just Doomed Now?

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Stacy Rumaker (@StacyRumaker, The Night Cap With Stacy Rumaker, The Dick and The Dame) returns to chat with us about how Parkinson's Disease might originate from unhappy gut bacteria, why a hormone in Platypuses and Echidna might help Diabetes, and what happens now that the US government is getting into the climate change denial business. GUT BUGS CAUSE PARKINSONS https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231024-100-parkinsons-disease-may-start-in-the-gut-and-travel-to-the-brain/ PLATYPI V DIABETES https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161129114432.htm GOVERNMENT SCIENCE DEPT RETWEETS BREITBART ... FFFFUUUUUU http://www.popsci.com/house-committee-on-science-just-tweeted-science-article-from-breitbart Find us at thesciencejerks.com and boardwalkaudio.com/sciencejerks. Email us [e-mail]. Subscribe for free on Stitcher or iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-jerks-real-science/id578684997?mt=2