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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting January 24th. I'm Steve Murski. This week on the podcast, some good news about coffee from

Roger Clemens, not the pitcher, the Roger Clemens who has a doctor in public health. He's got

the good news about coffee. Not like bad news about coffee would stop you from drinking it, but you can drink it guilt-free,

for the most part.

And Scientific American Editor-in-Chief John Rennie talks about the recent skeptics conference

he attended and spoke at, in Las Vegas, home of the cold science of statistics.

Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

First up, Roger A. Clemens.

He's an adjunct professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California,

and he's a regular columnist at the publication Food Technology, where he recently wrote a piece

called Coffee and Health, Surprisingly Good News.

The column summarizes findings presented at the recent international conference on coffee science in France.

I caught up with Clemens in Irvine, California.

Hello, Dr. Clemens. How are you today?

Good morning, Steve.

Coffee for the last few years has really been getting a lot of good press compared to, you know,

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