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Skeptic Check: Conspiracy!
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2010
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Podcast episode
Description
The Apollo moon landing is a hoax! 9-11 was an inside job! Our government keeps alien bodies racked and stacked in an underground bunker! And as for the evidence … well … put on your tin hats, folks, we’re going deep, deep, deep into conspiracy with journalist David Aaronovitch.
Also – the truth is out there, but it’s ignored. Jonah Lehrer on why scientists can overlook evidence.
Plus, money for meters and your spooks for free: ghost detectors hit the market.
And Hollywood Reality Check and Phil Plait on bogus bomb detectors.
It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!
Guests:
Phil Plait - Astronomer, keeper of badastronomy.com, and author of Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .
David Aaronovitch- Columnist with the Times newspaper of London and author of Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Jonah Lehrer - Contributing editor at Wired magazine and author of How We Decide
Matt Lowry - High school physics teacher and keeper of the Skeptical Teacher web site
Jim Underdown - Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, West - Los Angeles
Descripción en español
Also – the truth is out there, but it’s ignored. Jonah Lehrer on why scientists can overlook evidence.
Plus, money for meters and your spooks for free: ghost detectors hit the market.
And Hollywood Reality Check and Phil Plait on bogus bomb detectors.
It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!
Guests:
Phil Plait - Astronomer, keeper of badastronomy.com, and author of Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .
David Aaronovitch- Columnist with the Times newspaper of London and author of Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Jonah Lehrer - Contributing editor at Wired magazine and author of How We Decide
Matt Lowry - High school physics teacher and keeper of the Skeptical Teacher web site
Jim Underdown - Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, West - Los Angeles
Descripción en español
Released:
Apr 5, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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