The next installment of my new falsehoods series, on Skeptically Speaking radio with Desiree Schell, is tonight at 6PM Mountain Standard Time. You can listen on line or wait until emacsDay, I mean Sunday, and download it.
The main guests (my bit is a little add in pre-recorded thing) are George Dvorsky and Greg Fish. Details, and a place to leave comments are here.
I will post this installment's sister blog post some time before the show. The falsehood in question is: "Humans Evolved from Apes" ... A statement that is indubitably true yet clearly wrong.
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Biology is harder to learn than quantum physics. Why? Because most people think they totally get biology, but everyone knows nobody gets quantum physics. Therefore, any effort to explore quantum physics will result in new learning, but people rarely learn new biology.
Let me remind you of what we mean by "falsehood." A falsehood is not merely a statement that is factually untrue or logically flawed.
Today is the big day!
And not merely because it is TGIF* day.
I've decided to address the falsehood "An adopted baby is not the biological offspring of the mother" next. That was not my original intention, but for various reasons this is appropriate.