Joseph Alton practiced as a board-certified obstetrician and pelvic surgeon before retiring to devote his efforts to preparing your family medically for any scenario. Amy Alton is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner who has taught survival medicine classes nationwide. In the first half, they discussed disaster preparedness and how to treat common injuries that might occur in a calamity when the medical infrastructure is overwhelmed. Everyone should know first-aid, but also how to handle such things as trauma, bleeding, and infections, Joseph said. Quick actions can prevent someone from bleeding out before help arrives. For instance, if you have a tourniquet or can improvise one, you can save someone's life by placing it high and tight on the extremity that is bleeding, he detailed.
Amy spoke about natural remedies that can be employed for healing, such as placing raw honey on a wound. She recounted how a young woman used one of the Alton's first-aid backpacks to save an accident victim. Joseph described how to react in a nuclear event: extend your distance from the ground zero location, limit the amount of time you're out in the open, and seek out some type of shelter, like a basement. They also spoke about ways to deal with mass shootings, such as when in a crowd, remain on the fringe rather than the center, watch out for suspicious persons, and always have an exit strategy.
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Sarah Scoles is a science writer whose work has appeared in many publications. In the latter half, she talked about programs investigating UFO reports, the many types of people who studied the phenomenon, and the lengths they go to seeking evidence of ET life and alien spacecraft. The SETI program, which has looked for radio signals from different parts of the sky that might indicate an extraterrestrial intelligence, has given mainstream scientific credibility to the subject, she opined. In their systemic approach, they surveyed various locations looking for specific frequencies and then published the data, and this scientific method could be a model for further UFO studies, she suggested.
In her book about SETI astronomer Jill Tarter, she delved into the idea of what it's like to be a scientist devoting your career to exploring a single question that might not be solved in your lifetime (Tarter was the inspiration for the main character in the movie Contact, based on Carl Sagan's book). In Scoles' later work, she explored a wider group of people interested in UFOs and ETs from differing vantage points-- including spiritual, political, and conspiratorial. Like Tarter, these individuals were united by trying to solve this enduring mystery. Scoles said she particularly respects the work of John Greenewald of the Black Vault, who has dedicated a lot of his life to trying to get to the truth about the UFO question via filing FOIA requests.
During the last half-hour, a replay from 2011 with author Brad Steiger discussing alien mysteries was featured.
News segment guests: Christian Wilde, Nick Pope