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Category : Education | Tags : skeptic skepticism socialscience science criticalthinking philosophy media |
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking on Oct 29th, 2008 No Comments »
This podcast deals with the misuse and abuse of statistics and scientific theories and terminology. From surveys and natural health claims to new age gibberish.
Head to the website for the full show notes.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2008 No Comments »
In this podcast we discuss False Analogies. This includes a direct reading from our book: Humbug! The skeptics’ field guide to spotting fallacies in thinking. We’ll eventually get around to podcasting all the fallacies from the book, so you can think of it as the “audio book” version of Humbug!. Not all analogies are false and not all are apt (this would be a False Dichotomy). Analogies lie on a continuum, from strong to weak. We also discuss the use of nonsensical sayings to confuse an opponent in our new section, Schadenfreude - the guilty pleasures of humbug.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2008 No Comments »
In this second podcast we discuss Falsification and Immunised Hypotheses.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Hunting Humbug 101 – a crash course in shooting down bad arguments. Two iconoclastic skeptics examine poor reasoning in all its guises and domains. With real life examples of fallacies made in science, social science, politics, philosophy and by no means least, the media.
In this podcast we discuss the general idea of fallacies and “critical thinking” and why we were moved to write a book on fallacies. If you’ve ever wanted to hear what we sound like, or if you just like Australian accents, now’s your chance…
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