Why You're Wrong

Getting even tougher on crime by looking at the statistics behind more aspects of police investigations and trials: criminal behavioural profiling as made famous by The Silence of the Lambs and Criminal Minds, and whether or not CSI has had an effect on how juries perceive forensic evidence.

Getting tough on crime is a popular political platform, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Looking at statistics behind the deterrent effects of capital punishment, mandatory minimum sentences, and the broken window idea of preventative policing shows that in the world of crime and punishment, sometimes less is more.

Like our previous episode on self-professed experts who aren't what they seem, this episode looks at audiophiles and coffee snobs and puts some popular beliefs to the challenge of the double blind test. As well, we clarify the difference between climatologists and meteorologists and why being an expert on some weather doesn't make you an expert on ALL weather.

Everyone loves a pithy quote from a famous person, but a lot of quotes aren't what they seem. Looking at famous quotes that were misinterpreted, misapplied, or even never said at all.

No matter how much we may know better, it's hard to resist wanting something for nothing. Looking at free energy, hybrid cars, losing weight, and political expectations.

Fallacies committed by those hunting aliens and ghosts and why they aren't and shouldn't be taken as convincing arguments.

A few quick clarifications, rambling about space, and shout-outs. All the administrative details you could want, all in one place.

Explanations, clarifications, bible quotations and defenestrations, all featured in this episode. Corrections, and tackling questions surrounding the Drake equation, the virgin Mary, and if violent video games increase the deaths of spree killings.

Why you're wrong about a number of hypotheticals in the US by looking at how it works in Canada. Looking at gun control, mortgage tax deductions, and socialized medicine.

Now combining right but wrong and wrong but rights into one, with the Milgram experiments, the Inquisition, muscle vs fat, and why turkey makes you sleepy.