The Skeptic Zone #720 - 24.July.2022
Jul 23, 2022•1 hr 3 min
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The Skeptic Zone #720 - 24 July 2022
Show Notes 0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:03:54 Lessons in Science and Pseudoscience Science educator Melanie Trecek-King tells us about her recent report in 'The Skeptic' magazine (Australia) about the differences between science, pseudoscience and science denial. Melanie is a science educator at a community college in Massachusetts. A few years ago, while teaching general education biology to students who really didn't want to be there, she thought to herself: What does the average person need to know about science? The stages of mitosis and protein synthesis? Or how the process of science works? https://thinkingispower.com 0:22:34 The Book of Tim. With Tim Mendham Never Ending Story By Anthony Garrett - Part 1 A report on the never ending search for perpetual motion and free energy. A reading from The Skeptic, Vol. 36 No. 3 http://www.skeptics.com.au 0:41:06 A Dive into a Trove A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to "Alien Abductions". http://www.trove.nla.gov.au- 1992, 18th November - The Nashua Telegraph
- 2019, 27th June - The Chronicle Telegram - Ohio
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