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

Special Guest Miranda Hale – Rhetoric/Composition teacher, freelance writer, speaker, blogger, #TAM2012 panelist. Contributor to @JREF’s Swift Blog. A sentimental girl and one of Virtual Skeptic’s most loyal watchers. She is sitting in for Eve and Bob tonight so she brought along some sharp dry wit and a silly giggle.

Brian Gregory – Host

Discussion of Daniel’s new piece released on eSkeptic “Why is There A Skeptical Movement?”
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/13-02-06/#feature

Sharon’s links:
Pile of hydrogel appears in the desert
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/01/pile-of-hydrogel-appears-in-the-desert/
Goo up in the trees
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/02/goo-up-in-the-trees/

Tim’s links:
Tim’s FOIA for the Nelson’s FDA inspection:

Two Mad Skeptic posts that Tim mentioned:
http://www.themadskeptic.com/2013/01/some-new-york-state-senate-bills-worth.html
http://www.themadskeptic.com/2013/02/vermont-bill-to-protect-herd-immunity.html

Govtrack.us can be used to generate alerts for Congress:
http://www.govtrack.us/

Sunlight Foundation also has tools:
https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/

Myron also suggested:
http://congress.gov

Brian’s Robot’s links:
Mothra? No, It’s Just A Robot Exoskeleton Controlled By A Moth
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/06/171302401/mothra-no-its-just-a-robot-exoskeleton-controlled-by-a-moth
Skycam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycam

Announcements:

Eve has a new post up on the JREF Swift Blog
Sharon is on this week’s episode of Binnall of America
Sharon has a new web post up on pseudoscience at Sounds Sciencey

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