The Unseen Podcast

Episode 48 - Hoaxes: who doesn't like a good show?

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Recorded: 1 April 2016

Released: 3 April 2016

Duration:82 minutes, 12 seconds

 

Host James Garrison welcomes Mike Mongo, Mike Bohler, and Marsha Barnhart to talk about hoaxes.

Erratum: It was the Stanford Prison Experiment, not Berkeley.

  • The Patterson Bigfoot footage
  • Piltdown Man and the Cardiff giant
  • P.T. Barnum
  • The Sokal Hoax 
  • Anthropogenic Climate Change - who is being misleading?
  • E-mail scams
  • Martin Gardner's book "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science" on pseudoscience and furthering a political agenda
  • Pseudoscience on YouTube
  • Mike Mongo discusses a student's UFO experience - was he delusional? Marsha is not so sure.
  • Some scientists are religious
  • Giant spiders
  • Flat Earthers
  • Hollow moons? Nope.
  • Martian caves.
  • Johann Behringer hoaxed by his students.
  • Project Alpha, Randi and Banachek
  • Poetry hoax
  • Art hoaxes
  • Steve Allen's music hoaxes
  • more discussion of the Sokal hoax.
  • Cold Fusion
  • Randi exposed Uri Geller who fooled scientists
  • Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Fitting in with preconceived notions
  • Michael Cremo's cherry picking
  • More on P.T. Barnum
  • What is our current Freak Show? Donald Trump?
  • The Microsoft Tweetbot
  • Wrap Up and Recommendations
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    Links:

    Project Alpha

    The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax

     
    Recommendations:

    David Grigg: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner

    Marsha Barnhart: practice discernment

    Mike Mongo: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    James Garrison: Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracy

    Credits:

    Host: James Garrison

    Producer: Paul Carr

    Music: DJ Spooky

     

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