– Date – May 7th, 2013 – Send your cool ‘SCIENCE!’ shout-outs to
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– Theme song by Steve Seamans of the Daisy Dillman Band. Get the song HERE.
– Thank you to everyone who has been purchasing books, Skepticality stuff, or using our Amazon link to help us!
Help Start Your Own Skepticamp
– Start A Local Skepticamp
Unnatural Virtue
– Believers in the paranormal, supernatural, or anti-science often have selective thinking and/or motivated reasoning.
– A basic understanding of subjective validation, confirmation bias, and the many facets of cold reading could help believers in psychic and astrological reading.
– Equally impenetrable are the supplement warriors, despite the lack of evidence that taking vitamin or mineral supplements should be part of a healthy lifestyle.
– A skeptic is often wasting his or her time arguing with a conspiracy theorist, an energy healer, or an anti-vaccinationist. – Bob Carroll's books include The Skeptic's Dictionary, Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed!, and for kids 9 and up; Mysteries and Science: Exploring Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, the end of the world and other weird things.
– Paperbacks of Unnatural Acts and Mysteries and Science are available from lulu.com.
– The Skeptics Dictionary and Skeptic's Dictionary for Kids.
Skeptical Humanities
– Phrenology in American culture.
– Early writings by Franz Joeseph Gall then popuarized in the 1830's by physician Charles Cardwell.
– The prohet Joseph Smith had a phrenologist publish findings based on his head.
– Mark Twain was universally damning of phrenology in his writings.
– Walt Whitman used the language of phrenology in some of his writings and praised them along side respected scientists.
– Find more informat at the website: Skeptical Humanities.
Euro Skeptic Convention
– European Skeptics Congress Convention.
Wikipedia
– Skeptical Podcasts.
– Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia Blog.
– You can find Susan Gerbic at her website.
The Odds Must Be Crazy
– The Odds Must Be Crazy.
– This week's featured story is, "Irish Roots".
– Story was submitted by reader Bobby Goldstein.
– Please visit the story link for a more detailed analysis and to add your comments.
– Additional thoughts and considerations provided by Barbara Drescher.
– Our producer and audio engineer is Brian Hart.
– Our theme music comes to us courtesy of Brian Keith Dalton, AKA Mr. Deity.
– Please visit The Independent Investigations Group Los Angeles.
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– Wendy Hughes is on Twitter.
– Jarrett Kaufman is on Twitter.
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– Brian Keith Dalton is on Twitter.
Interview: Mitchell Moffit
– Mitchell Moffet: Co-Creator of the YouTube channel: 'ASAPScience!' with Gregory Brown.
– Went to the University of Guelph with his co-creator.
– Saw an opportunity to use YouTube to spread scientific knowledge.
– Greg is a high school teacher in England now. – 'The Power of Naps' teach you about the importance of sleep.
– You can even learn about how to effectively deal with a hangover.
– Surprisingly, the most popular video is not the 'Science of Orgasms'.
– The most popular is actually about chickens…..
– Their older videos tend to end up getting more views, much like the Skepticality archive.
– The internet has spawned tons of great educational tools, Khan Academy, TED Talks, etc…
– Mitch and Greg had amazing science teachers in their High School which fed their love of science.
– The videos use the'whiteboard' video style to focus on the content of the message alone.
– Follow them on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook as well.
Outro Music
– Outro music donated by Trent Brusky of Dropfox.
