The Virtual Skeptics

This Week’s Panel:

• Brian Gregory – Host and creator of Virtual Drinking Skeptically
• Eve Siebert – Editor and blogger at Skeptical Humanities
• Bob Blaskiewicz – Committee for Skeptical Inquiry’s Conspiracy Guy web columnist, JREF Swift Blog contributor, and blogger for Skeptical Humanities
• Sharon Hill – Editor of Doubtful News and author of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry’s Sounds Sciencey web column
• Tim Farley – JREF Fellow, creator of whatstheharm.net and skeptools.com

Links:
Eve: Bill Nye Smacks Down Creationism

• Bill Nye anti-creationism video: http://youtu.be/gHbYJfwFgOU
• Bill Nye on CBS This Morning: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505270_162-57501492/bill-nye-on-creationism-criti…
• Bill Nye Twitter death hoax: http://www.gossipcop.com/bill-nye-dead-august-2012-death-science-guy-died-rum…
• Christian Science Monitor article on Bill Nye and Creationism: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0827/Science-Guy-Bill-Nye-takes-aim-at-…
• Gallop poll on creationism/evolution: http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx
• Creation Museum Dinosaur Billboards: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2012/06/11/billboards
• Creation Museum Dragon Billboards: http://arkencounter.com/blog/2012/08/10/hic-sunt-dracones/
• Leo Weekly on fire-breathing dragons: http://fatlip.leoweekly.com/2012/08/10/will-there-be-fire-breathing-dragons-o…
• Barefoot and Progressive on fire-breathing dragons: http://www.barefootandprogressive.com/2010/12/will-there-be-fire-breathing-dr…

Bob: Wacky election year shenanigans

• Thomas Head’s Comments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P3x8horw4&feature=player_embedded
• New York Times article about the impact of anti-Agenda 21 activism has had in the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-projects-seeing-un…
• The text of the Agenda 21 resolution: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_00.shtml

Sharon: The Essex Lion

• http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/08/police-looking-for-lion-in-essex-u-k/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19391572
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19396019

Tim: Fakery Online

• The New York Times wrote about fake book reviews: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-dem…
• The Kernel talked about Twitter fakers in July: http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/2736/ive-been-mazied/
• Barracuda (a computer security company) did an investigation: https://www.barracudanetworks.com/blogs/labsblog?bid=2989

• The Fakers app is here: http://fakers.statuspeople.com/
• Those follower graphs can be generated here: http://twittercounter.com/

Bonus Tragedy!

• Bigfoot hoaxer killed this week http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/08/the-danger-of-pretending-to-be-bigfoot-you-ca…