ספק סביר #53 – קוואזי גבישים, פרסים אפצ'קי, וארכיאולוגיה נוצרית מפוקפקת

A couple of things to add to the information you gave on the show:
The prominent scientist that rejected Shechtman's finding to his death was Linus Pauling. He was not so much an expert on crystals as he was the most prominent chemist of his day, having won the Nobel Prizes for chemisrty and for peace. It's worth noting that in his latter years, Pauling went against science often. the most notorious such case was when he developed the idea that cancer can be treated with mega doses of vitamin C. Despite no good evidence and quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, he wouldn't change his mind. That he became a crank was not easy for his many admirers to admit.

The ark story is another game played by Ken Ham, which I'm sorry to say is an Australian export (well, actually, I'm glad he's no longer here). But Ham is not the first, with "life size" arks having been built in Hong Kong (I was there in 2009 – it's very impressive) and in Holland. Here are the links:
http://www.noahsark.com.hk/eng/index.php
http://www.pbase.com/paulthedane/noahs_ark