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Sanal Edamaruku - Indian Gurus: From Flying Fakirs and Starving Saints - TAM 2013

Sanal Edamaruku - Indian Gurus: From Flying Fakirs and Starving Saints - TAM 2013


Sanal Edamaruku is an Indian skeptic and founder of Rationalist International. He is the acting president of both Rationalist International and the Indian Ra...
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Susan Blackmore - Fighting the Fakers (and Failing) - TAM 2013

Susan Blackmore - Fighting the Fakers (and Failing) - TAM 2013


Susan Blackmore is a psychologist and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymo...
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The Honest Liar's Pseudoscience Collection

The Honest Liar's Pseudoscience Collection


The Honest Liar's Pseudoscience Collection! In this installment of The Honest Liar, Jamy Ian Swiss considers the differences between science and pseudoscienc...
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Skepticism and Philosophy - TAM 2013

Skepticism and Philosophy - TAM 2013


From The Amaz!ng Meeting 2013. Panelists include Russell Blackford, Peter Boghossian, Massimo Pigliucci, and Susan Haack. Moderated by D.J. Grothe.
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Shane Greenup - The Great Global Debate - TAM 2013

Shane Greenup - The Great Global Debate - TAM 2013



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Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth About Dishonesty - TAM 2013

Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth About Dishonesty - TAM 2013


From The Amaz!ng Meeting 2013. Dan Ariely is the James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He is the author of a numb...
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Lecture 10: Independent Replicability, Meta-analysis and Pseudo-Replicability

Lecture 10: Independent Replicability, Meta-analysis and Pseudo-Replicability


The original ganfeld psi experiment (1974). The Hyman-Honorton debate (1985). Storm et al vs Hyman (2010). "Meta-analysis that conceals more than it reveals....
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Lecture 7: The Psychic Reading: How to Convince People that You Know All About Them

Lecture 7: The Psychic Reading: How to Convince People that You Know All About Them


Examples of readings: Alan Alda befuddled by reaction of a lady to a reading. Randi successfully re-enacts Forer's demonstration of the fallacy of personal v...
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Lecture 8: Personal Validation, Subjective Validation, and the Contribution of the Observer

Lecture 8: Personal Validation, Subjective Validation, and the Contribution of the Observer


Crider revisted. Forer. The rules of the game. Why it works. A companion course guide can be downloaded here: http://jref.swmirror.com/20730 -- More about th...
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Lecture 5: The Framework: How, and When, to Override the Autonomous Mind.

Lecture 5: The Framework: How, and When, to Override the Autonomous Mind.


The Conditional: if,then thinking. Popper's failed ploy to banish inductive thinking from science. Theory, Hypothesis, Initial Conditions, Auxiliary Conditio...
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