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

  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