the mentalist - medical nit

everyone wears radiation badges because they use cesium-137 for blood irradiation, but they wear lead aprons for protection.

WHAT?

bullshit.

1. only the blood bank personnel would wear the badge. in our hospital its not required. no one wears them. found an old badge from '98
2. doctors never come near the lab. nor the blood bank. probably have no clue where (even if) we have an irradiator
3. oh yeah, no lead aprons either.

who the hell is their medical consultant?

Law and Order SVU: Stranger - bad science

good ep, poor science. mom has type A blood, girl claiming to be daughter, has B ...- therefore she cannot be their child.
WRONG!
moms genotype can be AA, AO, OA (for simplicity's sake) all of which would type as A.
daughter could be BB,BO,OB

dad would have to be BB or BO,or OB

rh wasn't mentioned.

she could've gotten an O form mom, and a B from dad. and typed as B.

I can't nit on police procedure, but I can nit on what I know...

niaspan commercial annoying as hell

sounds like a vitamin B derivative anyway, but those annoying intervention commercials? Jeez, how 'not any of your fucking business' is any of this 'sis, daughter, brother whoever, anyway?

crap like this is why family members hate each other and stab each other in the head at Christmas.