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266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood
We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.
Links:
Brian's Website
Brian's Twitter
New Yorker Article about Spiritualism
The World's Greatest Con
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.
Links:
Brian's Website
Brian's Twitter
New Yorker Article about Spiritualism
The World's Greatest Con
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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