Brian Dunning - Skeptoid

[b_dubb]

The "Skeptoid" podcast with Brian Dunning is pretty interesting.  If you've ever wanted someone to make a counter argument to all the nonsensical claims and assertions that guests frequently make on Coast, then the Skeptoid podcast is here to save your brain.  My only problem with Dunning is that he sometimes labels "believers" as "whackos" which seems like an unnecessary personal attack.  He makes his points very well.  No need to beat anyone up. 

If you're open to reasoned and thoughtful commentary, give the "Skeptoid' a listen.

http://skeptoid.com

[wr250]

The "Skeptoid" podcast with Brian Dunning is pretty interesting.  If you've ever wanted someone to make a counter argument to all the nonsensical claims and assertions that guests frequently make on Coast, then the Skeptoid podcast is here to save your brain.  My only problem with Dunning is that he sometimes labels "believers" as "whackos" which seems like an unnecessary personal attack.  He makes his points very well.  No need to beat anyone up. 

If you're open to reasoned and thoughtful commentary, give the "Skeptoid' a listen.

http://skeptoid.com

i thought it was abut angels, or demons. unless the guest is talking about that ,then its aliens or bigfoot.

[b_dubb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(author)

Not sure what to make of these fraud charges.

[b_dubb]

http://skepchick.org/2014/08/brian-dunning-sentenced-to-15-months-in-prison-for-fraud/

This is pretty amazing.  Someone who stridently argues from a place of logic and reason.  But then he does THIS?  Is he really so analytical and reasoned?  Or is he a little too pleased with himself? 

He has someone in place to take over Skeptoid while he's "away".  And the replacement guy is a tad bit less condescending which is a definite improvement.

[Chocolate coated jackboot]

I'd love to listen to a show where somebody respectfully challenged some of these frauds but most of these skeptics come off as such pompous douches that you end up defending the kooks

[b_dubb]

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4462

Satanic Ritual Abuse episode.  Very interesting.

[Juan]

I guess everything recycles.  Just under 20-years ago, there was a Satanic Cult Abusing Children panic in the US.  It was fueled in part by Oprah.  It led to prosecution of innocent people and the destruction of their lives.  There was the McMartin trial in California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial, and the Little Rascals trial in North Carolina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rascals_day_care_sexual_abuse_trial. 
Janet Reno, as state attorney before she was US Attorney General, perfected what PBS Frontline called The Miami Method of Prosecuting Child Abuse Cases.

Please, let's don't go down this trail again.

[b_dubb]

I see some parallels between alien abduction and the great satan panic. They both play in the same fears.

[Juan]

That's true, too.

[b_dubb]

This episode is excellent and absolutely worth listening to

https://skeptoid.com/mobile/4498

[yumyumtree]

I guess everything recycles.  Just under 20-years ago, there was a Satanic Cult Abusing Children panic in the US.  It was fueled in part by Oprah.  It led to prosecution of innocent people and the destruction of their lives.  There was the McMartin trial in California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial, and the Little Rascals trial in North Carolina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rascals_day_care_sexual_abuse_trial. 
Janet Reno, as state attorney before she was US Attorney General, perfected what PBS Frontline called The Miami Method of Prosecuting Child Abuse Cases.

Please, let's don't go down this trail again.

WA had its own version of this the Wenatchee 7 or something. It wasn't a daycare, but a group of people in an obscure church and a guy named Bob Perez  ( now deceased) who went after them. They turned out to be innocent. I think Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal wrote about this one. some people still maintain that the Satanic Ritual Abuse stuff is true, and you get glimpses,of it now and then.

[yumyumtree]

I just looked up the Wenatchee case on Wikipedia. It was even worse than I remembered.Definitely a case of a group of people who were at a socioeconomic disadvantage. This may be when a corner was turned. People realized how excessive this sort of thing had gotten, and common sense returned.

[ninjashoes]

The "Skeptoid" podcast with Brian Dunning is pretty interesting.  If you've ever wanted someone to make a counter argument to all the nonsensical claims and assertions that guests frequently make on Coast, then the Skeptoid podcast is here to save your brain.  My only problem with Dunning is that he sometimes labels "believers" as "whackos" which seems like an unnecessary personal attack.  He makes his points very well.  No need to beat anyone up. 

If you're open to reasoned and thoughtful commentary, give the "Skeptoid' a listen.

http://skeptoid.com

When people attack Ad Hominem is means they are having trouble winning an argument or convincing themselves. It is also just impolite and mean.

Free thinking should be encouraged. People challenging conventional ideas should not be ridiculed for it. That is bullying people into conforming.

[Ciardelo]

When people attack Ad Hominem is means they are having trouble winning an argument or convincing themselves. It is also just impolite and mean.

Free thinking should be encouraged. People challenging conventional ideas should not be ridiculed for it. That is bullying people into conforming.

...makes right wingers even stupider than they already are

...Even today the Catholic church is full of child molesters.

...That was me just joking around because that is my nature.

[ninjashoes]

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Wow your getting a little obsessed with me C.

weirdo...