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Episode 48 - Hoaxes: who doesn't like a good show?

Podcast |: The Unseen Podcast
Publisher |: Paul Carr and the Unseen Team
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Humanity,; Natural Sciences,; Science & Medicine,; Society & Culture,; Technology
Categories Via RSS |: Natural Sciences,; Science,; Society & Culture,; Technology
Publication Date |: Apr 03, 2016
Episode Duration |: 01:22:13

Recorded: 1 April 2016

Released: 3 April 2016

Duration:82 minutes, 12 seconds

Host James Garrison welcomes Mike Mongo, Mike Bohler, and Marsha Barnhart to talk about hoaxes.

Erratum: It was the Stanford Prison Experiment, not Berkeley.

The Patterson Bigfoot footage
Piltdown Man and the Cardiff giant
P.T. Barnum
The Sokal Hoax
Anthropogenic Climate Change - who is being misleading?
E-mail scams
Martin Gardner's book "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science" on pseudoscience and furthering a political agenda
Pseudoscience on YouTube
Mike Mongo discusses a student's UFO experience - was he delusional? Marsha is not so sure.
Some scientists are religious
Giant spiders
Flat Earthers
Hollow moons? Nope.
Martian caves.
Johann Behringer hoaxed by his students.
Project Alpha, Randi and Banachek
Poetry hoax
Art hoaxes
Steve Allen's music hoaxes
more discussion of the Sokal hoax.
Cold Fusion
Randi exposed Uri Geller who fooled scientists
Stanford Prison Experiment
Fitting in with preconceived notions
Michael Cremo's cherry picking
More on P.T. Barnum
What is our current Freak Show? Donald Trump?
The Microsoft Tweetbot
Wrap Up and Recommendations

Links:

Project Alpha

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Recommendations:

David Grigg: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner

Marsha Barnhart: practice discernment

Mike Mongo: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

James Garrison: Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracy

Credits:

Host: James Garrison

Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

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