This week on the Virtual Skeptics:
- Bob pokes dead things with a stick
- Eve looks into her crystal ball and sees elves
- Sharon loves rocks, strange sounds and giant eyeballs
- and Tim talks about the “Year of the Skeptool”
Bob Blaskiewicz – CSI’s Conspiracy Guy web columnist, blogger for Skeptical Humanities and Swift Blog contributor
Eve Siebert – Editor and blogger at Skeptical Humanities and Skepticality contributor
Sharon Hill – Editor of Doubtful News and author of the CSI’s Sounds Sciencey web column
Tim Farley – JREF fellow and creator of What’s the Harm.net and the Skeptical Software Tools blog
Host: Brian Gregory – Bon vivant, chapeau connaisseur
Spitzer’s original paper:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1025647527010
Spitzer’s Retraction:
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10508-012-9966-y
Original Criticism: Oct 2003
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023%2FA%3A1025699511081
Village Voice Blogs by Tony Ortega:
http://www.villagevoice.com/related/to/Scientology/
Tony Ortega now blogs here:
http://tonyortega.org/
Jim Lippard’s article from Skeptic Magazine 17.1
http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-decline-and-probable-fall-of-the-scientology-empire/
What’s the Harm in Scientology?
http://whatstheharm.net/scientology.html
Eve’s links:
Iceland Review: Icelandic MP Moves Elves’ Boulder to His Home
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Icelandic_MP_Moves_Elves%E2%80%99_Boulder_to_His_Home_0_390052.news.aspx
Sharon’s links:
Doubtful News favorite stories of 2012
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/01/doubtful-news-favorite-stories-of-2012/
Tim’s links:
Obituary slides from #TAM2012:
http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/tam2012-in-memoriam-slides-tam-obituary/
Back in April Tim asked if 2012 was the “Year of the Skeptool”
http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/year-skeptical-software-tools-knight-challenge-2012/
RBUTR
http://rbutr.com
Truth Market
http://www.truthmarket.com/
Pundit Tracker
http://pundittracker.com/
Brian’s Robot’s links:
Roboy
http://www.roboy.org/
Roboy Junior YouTube Site
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIjF0JbpMZmopI6Vc2yIBw
Roboy Junior on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004102784256&fref=ts
Announcements:
- Eve has an article in Skeptical Inquirer (although she only has hearsay evidence for this).
- Sharon is on this week’s edition of Monster Talk talking about the best cryptozoology stories of 2012. Catch up on all the Bigfoot news on that podcast. http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/13/01/02/
- Registration is open for Skep Tech in Minneapolis April 5 & 6th. Tim is speaking, and they just added Maggie Koerth-Baker from Boing Boing as a guest: http://skep-tech.eventbrite.com/
- Bob has a new Conspiracy Guy article coming out soon.
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Well guys congratulations on a marvellous show, I’ve not been tuned in long but just just watched episodes 19-21 a fun filled three hours with much titilation and stimulation.
Love the banter between you all, and the one they call Eve, into her nordic mythology Wow what a gal! You are all prety cool mind.
Dig the bookends/readings, A great idea.
Man what cool lttile Aerobots flying in formation, beautiful but I fear a little sinister.
I want one.
I’ve just come from a rural commune all organic n such and into the city, smartphone only computer pending
Or dare I go that far.
However I expect to become a regular viewer of you tremendous skeptoid issue.
Love to all. J.
Thanks for the kind comments! I hope you keep enjoying the show, we enjoy doing it!