Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I am SO hoping this ends up on YouTube somewhere — what a hoot! From Brian Dunning on SkepticBlog: Today I was invited to host an episode of a new series for a major cable network in which I was to interview and administer a test to three professional psychics. This was the first episode [...]
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Tim Minchin’s stunning performance of his beat poem ‘Storm’ Eloquently and wittily honouring reason, science and life appreciation and debunking homeopathy, psychics, alternative medicine, religion etc. Live performance at the Eight Lessons and Carols for Godless People Christmas Show, 21st December 2008, Hammersmith Apollo. Instead: Lyrics to Tim Minchin’s ‘Storm’. …and just because I feel [...]
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From The Guardian – Charlie Brooker: Funniest Moment Of The Year was the sight of Derek Ogilvie, Channel 5′s truly horrid “Baby Mind Reader”, bursting into self-pitying tears during The Million Dollar Psychic, when his powers were tested by scientists and found to be non-existent. This was quickly followed by the Most Depressing Moment Of [...]
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First, I INSIST that you go check out one of the snappiest episodes of the Skeptic Zone out yet! Download : Special Interview The iTunes link is here — a great feature on Mark Mayer and his investigations into “Psychic” Detectives. If you’d like to check out some more of his work — excellent video [...]
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From I09: Obviously, the fake-psychic-turned-investigator from The Mentalist chucked a pretty lucrative job when he went straight. Today a San Francisco “psychic” named Lisa Marie Miller (pictured) was sentenced to two months in jail for sucking over $100 thousand out of a lovelorn woman. Miller convinced the woman she had a “curse” that could only [...]
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… that every animal in Australia releases its own Christmas album. If Steve Irwin was still around, we’d have him doing this with a sodding crocodile. Despite this, I suspect we should be girding ourselves for the horror of Terri using John frackin’ Edward — click the link, a rather revealing attitude there — as [...]
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Some nice discussions on Gizmondo and even Jezebel: As far as we can tell, this watch doesn’t actually stab your wrist at all, which is a shame, because anything that advertises itself as an acupuncture bracelet had better be breaking some skin. Which it doesn’t, but there’s a healthy amount of BS being tossed your [...]
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This interests me, because it was actually one of the questions that Dr Martin Bridgstock and I did for our survey of over a thousand Australians on paranormal, pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories. Yes, it’s forming the basis of my M.Ed dissertation, so you’ll just have to read my blog-posts to get an idea of my [...]
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