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Comment by Pope Beanie on July 5, 2015 at 1:56pm

wrt Why people believe...

Comment by Greg Leavitt on July 20, 2011 at 12:36pm

Yeah, Phil's "Bad Astronomy" originally referred to astrologers and dolts who used astronomy to back up their 2012 apocalypse or ~whatever~.

Comment by Hannah King on July 20, 2011 at 12:11pm

Greg and Nelson - thanks guys :) That Meta horoscope thing is awesome - and I didn't realise Phil Plait had done Astrology debunking - thanks :)

Comment by Greg Leavitt on July 20, 2011 at 12:00pm

Hannah,

Check out Phil Plait's old blog, "Bad Astronomy".  I think there's a link to it on his current Discovery Channel blog. 

Comment by Hannah King on July 20, 2011 at 10:30am

I'm writing an article of sorts about Astrology (and why it's bollocks) for my blog - anyone got any good links on the history or links to research?

Comment by Fouridine Ang on January 15, 2011 at 7:33am

Montage of famous skeptics debunking Astrology...

Comment by bocakiki on December 23, 2010 at 7:28pm

 

Snake Oil!!!!!

Comment by Sydni Moser on December 5, 2010 at 2:58pm

Carol Tavris on Everybody Making Mistakes, Except Us...

Guest, Carol Tavris discusses her book (co-authored with Elliot Aronson) "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts." In it they describe how our powerful cognitive dissonance engine of self-justification gives us the incredible ability to rationalize events and beliefs so that we always end up being better than average at being right. Also, how we are forced into these rationalizations by our absolute need to somehow square our most dearly held opinions of ourselves with the nasty tendency of some facts to contradict them.

Carol Tavris is a social psychologist who has tought at UCLA. She has written for many publications, including the NY Times and the LA Times. She is the author of a number of books, including "The Mismeasure of Women" and the recently re-released, "Psychobabble and Biobunk."

LISTEN To This Podcast HERE:

Comment by Matt Peters on November 30, 2010 at 3:19pm

Yes... "frequencies." What kind of frequencies? "Uh... frequencies."

Comment by Henry Ruddle on November 9, 2010 at 7:15pm

Richard Saunders and his Skeptic Zone crew have been going after Power Bands for some time now. I've never seen them, so I thought they were an Australian thing until he mentioned buying a bunch when he came to Atlanta for DragonCon. It's obvious that anyone selling Power Bands has to know that it is a fraud because of the way they demonstrate the effect. Why aren't the state attorneys general going after these guys?

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