Thursday, September 22, 2011

TV Fact-Checker: Dropping Science on 'The Big Bang Theory'

These days, when he’s not reading show scripts, he teaches a full course load at UCLA. In his free time he flies scientific balloons in Antarctica and uses hiatuses from the show to hop over to Switzerland to work on the Large Hadron Collider.

Even though he could fact-check most of the science in the show with one eye closed, there are some things he still needs help with on The Big Bang Theory, whose main characters are Cal-Tech physicists.

“Luckily, just as they added more neuroscience and biology with the character Amy Farrah Fowler, the actress that plays her is Mayim Bialik and she has a Ph.D. in neuroscience,” Saltzberg told Wired.com. “So she has my back on the biology.”

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