Maxwell's House 51
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Episode 51 |
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| Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ray Maxwell Topic: The Scientific Method Recorded: December 10, 2009 Published: December 25, 2009 Duration: 59:52 |
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Guests
Topics
1. NW flight 188…AVweb.com
2. Snow Leopard Epson Stylus Pro 4000
3. Luminous Landscape…Michael Richman…CMYK 2.0
4. Science…What is it?
- a. It is an algorithm, a method, a way to think that you perform to keep from lying to yourself.
- b. It is a way to understand the natural world around you.
- c. It is the best form of prophecy…You want to aim a rocket at the moon…
- d. Hypothesis that is falsifiable…experiment…measure and collect data…
- e. Not Falsifiable…There is life in the universe.
- f. Not Falsifiable…String Theory.
- g. Falsifiable…Drop an object and it will fall to the ground.
- h. Occam’s razor…Parsimony…simple is better…
- i. Science assumes that the world is objective and consistent.
- j. How is this different than Philosophy?
- k. Philosophy is pure thought.
5. Skeptics groups…magazines…podcasts
- a. JREF…million dollar prize…
- b. Skepticality…Derek and Swoopy.
- c. Point of Inquiry…
- d. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe…
- e. “Skeptical Inquirer” magazine.
6. Emily Rosa…Therapeutic Touch…Human energy field
- a. 11 years old
- b. Claim…TTP can feel auras…and massage your aura…they can detect illness and help cure it.
- c. Emily…cardboard box with two holes…detect the presence of the testers hand…they were right 44% of the time.
- d. Peer-reviewed medical journal
- e. To our knowledge, no other objective, quantitative study involving more than a few TT practitioners has been published, and no well-designed study demonstrates any health benefit from TT. These facts, together with our experimental findings, suggest that TT claims are groundless and that further use of TT by health professionals is unjustified.
- f. Kirlian Photography…Photographing aura’s
- g. Can be explained by electrical resistance.
- h. Vertigo and Nystagmus
7. Facilitated Communication
- a. Recent news…Man in vegetative state for 23 years…brain activity…He now communicates with a facilitator…
- b. Very, very easy to test…show the subject an object that is hidden from the facilitator and ask him what it is.
- c. Many years ago a man was sent to jail on the testimony of his daughter through the use of a facilitator. The father thought he might have committed the crime without knowing.
- d. Many of the facilitators did not realize that they were the source of the information.
- e. Clever Hans effect…horse…trainer…trainer did not know he was giving signs.
8. Risk Analysis…Greg Craven…school teacher
- a. Science…The body of knowledge…or learning to think critically.
- b. Book…”What’s the Worse That Could Happen?”
- c. Podcast…Point of Inquiry…
- d. Global Warming
- e. Vaccines
Websites
Notable Comments
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Production Information
- Edited by: Erik
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