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Neo-opsis Review
Skeptoid.com: “The
Evil Skeptoid Debunkatron”
Podcasts by Brian
Dunning
Brian Dunning runs the www.skeptoid.com website which features his
weekly 10 minute podcasts. For those who prefer, text versions of the podcasts
are available as well.
As of June 30, 09, there has been 160
podcasts, covering a wide variety of topics, including “The Placebo Effect,”
the movie “Super-Size Me,” “Religion as a Moral Center,” “The Sargasso Sea and
the Pacific Garbage Patch,” “The Terror of Nuclear Power” and “New Age Energy.”
The forum for discussing the podcasts tends to have a great deal of interesting
content as well, from a wide range of perspectives.
The content of the podcasts is quite
good and usually well researched. A rare exception was his podcast “Internet
Paranoia,” which I thought showed a lack of research into malware. He even
parrots the erroneous meme that Macs are safe from malware, “since none of this
crap runs on Unix.”
As above, I don’t agree with 100% of
the points made in these podcasts, but part of the point of scepticism is to
not have one authority who you think is always right. Mr. Dunning seems to
realize that scepticism is a tool, it isn’t something that automatically makes
you correct on a given issue, and for that alone I can recommend checking out
his podcasts at www.skeptoid.com.
CDs of the podcasts are available
through the web site.
In addition to podcasts, the skeptoid site features some skeptical videos by Brian
Dunning. These include such titles as, "Area 51: Aerial Surveillance,"
"Ghost Lights of Anza-Borrego" and "Living Stones of Death
Valley".
Update January 4, 2020. The Skeptoid
podcast is still running at www.skeptoid.com. Brian Dunning also has several
videos in his In Fact series on his YouTube site at: https://www.youtube.com/user/volleybrian.
Review by Karl Johanson.
Originally published in Neo-opsis issue 17.
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