Hunting Humbug 101

Not the usual podcast on fallacies - but there was plenty of humbug to be hunted during our family outing to the “Mind, Body, Spirit Festival”.

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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.

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In this second podcast we discuss Falsification and Immunised Hypotheses.

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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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