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I’m On Skeptically Speaking This Week!

by podblack on December 1, 2009

Wahhh! Skeptically Speaking is a great show (I keep getting shout-outs on it and I promptly hide behind the couch whenever they happen) – you can hear me and Dr Martin Bridgstock on it this weekend!

It will be broadcast live, so you can hear it on the site (please phone in! Or zip in an email with questions!) – later it’ll be available on a podcast.

Belief and Education

We’ll speak to Martin Bridgstock and Kylie Sturgess, who have recently completed one of the largest surveys of paranormal, pseudoscientific, superstitious and conspiracy theory beliefs in Australia.

They’ve studied how age, gender, religion, and voting preference relate to belief in the paranormal, and whether there’s a single underlying tendency to be “a believer.” Some of their conclusions are quite different than what we’ve seen in other studies.

What does this mean mean for skeptical education and outreach?

Great question – you’ll be hearing more of them posed to us on the day! We should be talking about Dr Martin Bridgstock’s ‘Beyond Belief’, our research (thanks again to the Australian Skeptics) and much more.

It’s recorded live and then podcasted, but you can check out the ‘countdown’ on the site.

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