Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Seekers 2012 – Documentary series for the History Channel, surrounding the Mayan prediction that 2012 will be the END OF DAYS as well as other unexplained phenomena. What We Are Looking For: Male & Female Investigators who are scientists, explorers, or adventurers with advanced degrees (Ph.D desired). Ideally, investigators would already be a team (husband and [...]
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Ben Radford, Joe Nickell, George Hrab, Slau, Richard Saunders, the panels on Darwin’s Bulldogs, Skeptical Teaching and chilling out on Monday night, up in the lounge area on the nineteenth-floor with Daniel, George, Rachael, Richard, Steve, Cheryl and Derek. There was a question on Twitter about the questions from the audience during Radford/Nickell’s talk? There’s [...]
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I’m on the floor, again, like last year. This really seems to be the best place to be. Ben Radford is talking about the claims of Nancy Weber – and her failure to match the specifics in the solving of a murder. There’s been a Skepticality show about it that you can find on episode [...]
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Article by Ben Radford over at Live Science.com – “Yet the psychics conveniently ignore the fact that their information was either wrong or so general and vague that it was useless. If Shear’s psychic powers told her that this poor girl was being kept in the most horrific conditions — being subjected to continual sexual [...]
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Great article by Ben Radford now out: Despite a long tradition of free, compulsory public education (and more college graduates than ever), as a whole we don’t seem to be getting much smarter. Many of us still buy the newest fad items and get suckered into the latest conspiracy theory. We still fall for the [...]
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Ben Radford’s 2007 film “Clicker Clatter” – a satirical look at TV, NEWS and other media – is available now at his website in its unedited entirety. http://www.radfordbooks.com/media/clickerclatter.htm It is not really work-safe, but there is a worksafe preview, though: Clicker Clatter Preview And note that ‘like most indie film projects, “Clicker Clatter” took a [...]
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