The Skeptic Zone #637 - 27.December.2020
Dec 26, 2020•47 min
Episode description
0:00:00 Introduction
Richard Saunders 0:05:00 Pete Evans Booted Off
Pete Evans has been removed from Facebook just days after telling Sydney followers to not get tested for COVID-19.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/facebook-boots-celebrity-chef-pete-evans-over-covid-19-misinformation-20201223-p56px0.html 0:11:30 Logical Fallacies. With Michelle Bijkersma
This week Michelle looks at "The Slothful Induction Fallacy".
This is when even though there is enough good evidence to support a conclusion, this evidence is rejected and replaced by something possibly unrelated but more inline with a particular worldview.
A Logical Fallacy is an error we can make in reasoning, but it usually crops up when we are discussing or arguing our point of view. 0:19:18 A Dive into a Trove
A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to “Astrology”. 1939, 9 December - Smith’s Weekly
1942, 6 February - The Cairns Post 1977, 1 February - The Canberra Times
http://www.trove.nla.gov.au Also 2021 Origami Calendar
https://skepticzone.tv/files/2021_origami.pdf
2021 Maynard Calendar Calendar
https://skepticzone.tv/files/Maynard2021.pdf
Corona Conspiracy - Upload Images
https://coronaconspiracy.cloud
Richard Saunders 0:05:00 Pete Evans Booted Off
Pete Evans has been removed from Facebook just days after telling Sydney followers to not get tested for COVID-19.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/facebook-boots-celebrity-chef-pete-evans-over-covid-19-misinformation-20201223-p56px0.html 0:11:30 Logical Fallacies. With Michelle Bijkersma
This week Michelle looks at "The Slothful Induction Fallacy".
This is when even though there is enough good evidence to support a conclusion, this evidence is rejected and replaced by something possibly unrelated but more inline with a particular worldview.
A Logical Fallacy is an error we can make in reasoning, but it usually crops up when we are discussing or arguing our point of view. 0:19:18 A Dive into a Trove
A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to “Astrology”. 1939, 9 December - Smith’s Weekly
1942, 6 February - The Cairns Post 1977, 1 February - The Canberra Times
http://www.trove.nla.gov.au Also 2021 Origami Calendar
https://skepticzone.tv/files/2021_origami.pdf
2021 Maynard Calendar Calendar
https://skepticzone.tv/files/Maynard2021.pdf
Corona Conspiracy - Upload Images
https://coronaconspiracy.cloud