The Virtual Skeptics

This Week’s Panel:

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
Brian Gregory – Host

Bob’s links:
Telegraph: “Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People defaced at Len’s Louvre gallery”
AE911Truth Condemns the Defacing of Famous Painting in the Louvre
“Gorilla Study”

Eve’s links:
Phil Senter and Pondanesa D. Wilkins, “Late-surviving pterosaur?” Palaeontologia Electronica.
New Scientist: The Dragon that Evolved into a Pterosaur
John Goertzen, The Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur Scaphognathus crassirostris: A “Living Fossil” Until the 17th Century

Sharon’s links:
Oooh, new shiny thing on Mars
Scientist Explains the Weird Shiny Thing on Mars
Ketchum Bigfoot DNA paper released: Problems with questionable publication

Tim’s links:
Oppose Naturopathic Licensing is a new site along the lines of what Tim talked about last week.
Sara Mayhew was on the front page of Wikipedia in “Did You Know” – the work of Susan Gerbic’s Guerrilla Skeptics
There’s a new editing interface on Lanyrd that supports LinkedIn.
The Ockham Awards nominations end on Friday. Hint, hint.
Info on TAM 2013 will be posted on Monday, February 18.

Brian’s Robot’s links:
Robotic rat terrorizes rats into depression
Floating Robotic Shipping Containers Team Up to Create Islands and Runways
‘Do You Love Me’, a film by Cleverbot

Announcements:
Sharon wrote A Media Guide to Skepticism which is currently open for public comment, revisions are being made and a finished version will be available in March.
Eve has a segment on Bigfoot and Leif Erickson on the new episode of Skepticality.

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