- Date – May 8, 2012
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Skepticism, Past and Future
- Simon Singh was dealt a setback at preliminary hearing on the word “bogus” on May 7, 2009
- Simon Singh won his appeal over the word bogus in a 3-0 ruling on April 1, 2010
- The BCA dropped their suit against Simon Singh on April 15, 2010
- David Irving lost his lawsuit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books on April 11, 2000
- Scientology lost the bulk of it’s case against Richard Behar and Time Magazine on July 16, 1996 but some appeals continued into 2001
- The Libel Reform Campaign continues, and needs your support
- Data-Driven Skepticism is covered in detail in a new post at Tim’s blog
- Simon Singh analyzed Sally Morgan’s audience ratings in January
- Skeptic History facts are posted daily on social media find out where on this page at the Skeptools blog
- Make sure to check out Tim’s workshop at TAM this year
The Odds Must Be Crazy
- This week’s featured story is Two out of Thirty Million – Story was submitted by reader Bethany G
- Please visit the story link for a more detailed analysis and to add your comments
- Also mentioned in this week’s episode is Barbara’s editorial, Knot That Strange
- Additional thoughts and considerations provided by Barbara Drescher
- Brian Hart, also a member of the IIG LA Steering Committee
- Please visit The Independent Investigations Group Los Angeles
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Unnatural Virtue
- Sympathetic Magic
- Dr. Bruce Hood
- The Amazing Meeting
- Superstition
- Adam Savage on one of the Mythbusters
- Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
- James Frazer
- The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion
- Magical Thinking
Dr. Pete Ludovice
- Dr. Pete is a professor at Georgia Tech
- He performs science based stand-up comedy routines at events and comedy clubs
- “Inside the Black Box” radio show
- Both Dr. Pete and Randy Olsen have been attempting to bridge scientists and society using humor
- Why do scientists keep looking down at their peers who bring science understanding to the public
- NASA ‘Weird Life‘
- Pete was recently performing at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
- Carl Sagan was screwed
- Doug Glick studied the comedy of Eddie Izzard
- The ‘Flame Challenge‘ How does a flame work?
- Zombie Preparedness Kit
- Periodic Table T-Shirt
- Brain Tumor can effect your Sex Drive
- New Dean for GA Tech Computing
- Rich Demittle C-22U 21st Century Computer University
- The Inventor Competition
- Feel the Power of the Dork Side
- Some states have driver education taught by comedians
- The BP Oil Spill is a good example of not understanding statistics can be bad
- NASA Powerpoint mistake caused a shuttle disaster
- The Metric vs. English conversion NASA mistake causes mistakes
- Drug Dealers are the only folks in the USA who actually converted to the metric system
- See Dr. Pete being funny!