Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
New episodes out for the Token Skeptic podcast! The first is for all of those keen on psychogy of deception, illusion and how we can be fooled – Token Skeptic #29 features an interview with Prof Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, talking about their new book ‘The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Decieve [...]
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This is with very big thanks to Espilon Clue, who features the majority of the speech. There are some arguments he makes at the end, and Dr Phil Plait responds in the comments – I hope Dr Plait includes in the promised ‘blog-follow-up’ he has planned, the post by Tribal Scientist. You can see his [...]
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Just as I’ve been enjoying reading the very skeptically-minded breakdown (and an excellent one at that) of ‘Is that a fallacy in your pocket or can you cite some sources? A Response to “Feminism at TAM”‘ — here’s some more skepticism! From the official site: “In October 2008 Tim worked with Animator Martin White to [...]
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By the way — if you know anyone attending the Meryl Dorey Talk At The Perth Library — send them the link to Vaccination Facts. This was created earlier in the year (New Website For Those Attending The Perth AVN Lecture) in order to cater for parents who have questions regarding the ‘truths’ touted by [...]
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Very clever marketing, have a look at the entire article featured at ‘Read Write Web‘: ‘How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made’ Old Spice, marketing agency Wieden + Kennedy and actor Isaiah Mustafa are collaborating on the project. The group seeded various social networks with an invitation to ask questions of Mustafa’s character, a [...]
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Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be: 1) Upgrading the blog-site and 2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too! Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog [...]
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Thanks to IDoubtIt — Live at The Amazing Meeting (TAM8) 8 in Las Vegas, Richard Saunders, Bruce Hood, Brian Dunning and Rick don the mustaches for a rousing rendition of the Star Trek theme.
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