The Skeptic Zone #557 - 23.June.2019

Show Notes 0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:06:54 Psychics and Missing Persons Again and again, so-called "Psychics" chime in with mystical informaion on missing persons. Worse still they send usless information to the Police and give false hope to heartbroken parents. We look at a few cases in the news.

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=Theo+Hayez+Psychic http://www.google.com/search?q=William+Tyrrell+Psychic http://undeceivingourselves.org/S-ican.htm

0:23:50 Bugs in Berkeley We join Dr Eugenie Scott for a visit to the Berkeley Botanic Gardens, where we find a table dedicated to science outreach from the National Centre for Science Education.

 

https://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu https://ncse.com

0:38:55 ESP... Sence or Nonsence? How did the popular magazine 'The Australian Woman's Weekly' cover the topic of the paranormal over 40 years ago. Find out as we dive into the pages from 1977. A report by Patricia Angly

 

https://trove.nla.gov.au/aww https://trove.nla.gov.au/aww/read/340143?q=ESP&s=0&resultId=num2#page/18/mode/2up

Also Skepticon 2019 https://skepticon.org.au NZ Skeptics 2019 https://conference.skeptics.nz Award for Dr Pamela Gay https://thehumanist.com/news/aha_news/meet-the-2019-isaac-asimov-science-award-recipient-pamela-gay Canberra Skeptics - talk by Trish Hann https://www.meetup.com/SocialSkepticsCanberra/events/262279997/ The Well Known Skeptic https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/qa-with-john-de-lancie/