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Posted in skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on Sep 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
It’s been a while, but we’re finally back with another, albeit short, episode. Courtesy of Dr Phil - we have a couple of fallacies for you to test yourself on. Head to the website to read up on the fallacies identified.
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on Aug 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Examples discussed: Verizon Math Fail and Dara O’Brien’s great stand up bit.
Head to the website for other examples of False Compromise.
Dara O’Brien
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on Aug 14th, 2009 No Comments »
9-11 was an inside job so Bush could start the war in Iraq for the oil and Hitler’s ideas came out of Darwinism… are examples of Impugning Motives and Poisoning the Well (respectively). Examples courtesy of The Onion and an arse clown.
Posted in skepticism, critical thinking, philosophy, Intelligent Design on Jul 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Are you a closed-minded naysayer? Probably not - but there’s a reasonable chance you might be accused of being one if you identify yourself as a skeptic. “Prove” you’re open-minded by coming up with a list major changes of position you have made in the past. That way when someone says you’re closed-minded - you’ll be able to respond with specific examples of things you’ve changed your mind about. That’ll learn ‘em one.
In this podcast we (Jef, my old mate Ben, and me) discuss things we’ve changed our minds about and why. We also discuss some of thinking strategies behind these decisions - specifically Occam’s razor, Hume’s razor and Playing the devil’s advocate.
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy, Intelligent Design, Activism on Jun 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
If we don’t take a stand against people using the Slippery Slope - the world will implode under the weight of inanity. Check out my interview on The Skeptic Zone. Here’s my article about inductive reasoning.
Posted in skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on Jun 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Argument by Slogan, or “sloganeering”, or “staying on message”, dominates contemporary political discourse. Various clips used, including some of the audio from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) show Q&A - Episode “Beyond Spin”.
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »
In our most self-indulgent podcast since Special Pleading we discuss Argument by Artifice and Bad Faith. Examples from Liar Liar, and posts linked to from the links above. Oh, and here’s Jef’s article on Bad Faith.
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on May 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
Begging the question is a type of circular argument that all should be familiar with, because then everyone would know about using the premise of an argument as the conclusion.
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on Apr 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Finally it’s done. Sorry for the delay. Normally we record on the weekend but we were unable to this weekend and I have had a very busy week. Sorry again.
Posted in science, skepticism, critical thinking, Education, philosophy on Apr 7th, 2009 No Comments »
OMG! It took me over 3hrs to upload this 16MB file! Something wrong at my pod provider’s end I think. Anyway, enough of that. This podcast is on Moral Equivalence. Head to the website www.skepticsfieldguide.net for more details.
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