- Date – April 24, 2012
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Skepticism, Past and Future
- The Loch Ness cryptid was first called a “monster” in a newspaper article on May 2, 1933.
- The famous “Surgeon’s photograph” hoax was published in a newspaper on April 21, 1934.
- TIME magazine’s Scientology investigation ran May 6, 1991.
- Simon Singh’s article “Beware the Spinal Trap” was published April 19, 2008.
- Truthiness in Digital Media was conference held at Harvard on March 6th and 7th.
- The Knight News Challenge has $5 million to award to innovative news-related projects.
- The first round has closed, and several projects of interest to skeptics such as Hypothes.is and RBUTR have survived the first round.
- Skeptic History facts are posted daily on social media find out where on this page at the Skeptools blog.
The Odds Must Be Crazy
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- This week’s featured story is Slow and Steady Stays at Home
- Story was submitted by Independent Investigations Group Los Angeles Steering Committee Member, Spencer Marks
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Unnatural Virtue Notes
- Availability Bias
- We tend to use shortcuts
- The speed of our decisions in uncertain situations can lead to errors in judgement
- Most people tend to believe crime is on the rise, when it has only been going down or staying steady
- The Media tends to increase these types of errors
- Randi’s article ‘Mass Media Bunk‘ was dug up by an assistant, mistakenly
- There is a reason why surveys should use rankings rather than open ended questions
- Bob Carroll is the Author of The Skeptics Dictionary and Unnatural Acts
Ian Harris Interview Notes
- Ian Harris of The Evolution of Comedy tour
- There are many skeptical/rational comedians
- Ian has a Kickstarter for his DVD special
- Lately more popular comedians like Ricky Gervais and Tim Minchin have been breaking out as ‘rational’ comedians