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Posts tagged ‘Bad Astronomy’
Interesting experiment. Just some flares attached to helium balloons but the eyewitness accounts and media attention were very interesting.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01.html#feature
…and of course some discussions over at Bad Astronomy:
Phil Plait of the legendary Bad Astronomy website has a nefarious plan!
He has some great blog articles and other resources that educate on all things astronomy, pareidolia and the fight against misinformation and nonsense. Check it out.
Even I didn’t need Randi’s help to see straight away all the flaws in the dowser’s “demonstration”. It made me laugh though!
Are dowsers easy targets? You betcha! But there are too many people who think that dowsers are the real thing. Again, it’s the deluded leading the delusional.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtuWymUzz4
Thanks to Bad Astronomy for the heads up.
The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain’t so. – Josh Billings
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This was recommended at the Bad Astronomy blog last week but I’ve only just around to putting this here on my blog. Not terra incognita but “Here Be Dragons”…an introduction to critical thinking. The video at that website provides the basic tools to allow a critical mindset to develop…a useful weapon to get past all the chaff that this world throws at us.
The other things I liked in the video were the recommendations on reading material; it mentioned one of my favourite books…“The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” by Carl Sagan.
Get the video, get the book. Highly Recommended!
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