Sort by The Church Mouse (Free subscription) - 07/06/2009 - YouTube
The first video from RDF TV! With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and g...
Sort by The Church Mouse (Free subscription) - 07/06/2009
Regular readers of the Mouse will be surprised to learn what he thinks of this particular piece of output from the Richard Dawkins Foundation. He agrees with every word of it. The 15 minute piece provides a ten point checklist for spotting 'baloney'. They amount to a tick list for common sense. Check the bias of the people making the claim, check where the weight of evidence points, is there any evidence...
Sort by 3quarksdaily (Free subscription) - 06/25/2009
Michael Shermer lays out ten questions we should ask when encountering a claim. From the Richard Dawkins Foundation:
Sort by Obscene Desserts (Free subscription) - 08/06/2009
How should we think? Well, it's a complex issue. But it's good to have a few cues. Like these: A starting point. In short: 'Think about it'. Yep.
Sort by Want to be a Free Thinker (Free subscription) - 06/26/2009
With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine lays out a "Baloney Detection Kit," ten questions we should ask when encountering a claim. from Richard Dawkins' website
Sort by Humanists4Science (Free subscription) - 07/03/2009
As Carl Sagan said "There is a lot of baloney out there". What is the Baloney Detection Kit? It's the scientific method.. or just science! Credit to Carl Sagan who originally developed the Baloney Detection Kit in his book 'The Demon Haunted World". Over 300 comments on RichardDawkins.net Download Quicktime version: Small (640x360, 122.4 MB) Download Quicktime version: Large (1280x720, 342.9 MB) Download...
Sort by The Botheration Log (Free subscription) - 07/04/2009
While the management is in a video embedding mood, here's another - The Scientific Baloney Detection Kit, which arrives with us via a long and prestigious line of scientists including Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins.
