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Skeptical About Skeptics

Posted by Frank Swain on August 7, 2010
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This is an adaptation of the talk I gave at Westminster Skeptics in the Pub on Monday 2nd August. You can hear an audio transcript of the talk at the Pod Delusion website. I was invited to stage the talk again at the Winchester SITP, a recording of which is here. I’m very much a…

Michael Specter: The Danger of Science Denial

Posted by Frank Swain on April 17, 2010
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Journalist Michael Specter makes a erudite and impassioned plea for reason and critical thinking in this video from TED. It’s a fantastic speech, and huge tracts could have sprung from my own lips (and probably have done on one occassion or another). He even paraphrases a favourite bon mot of mine: “science is a process…