Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Are you getting sold snake oil?

I came across this video on a blog written by someone named Esther who lives in Israel and who decided to follow me Twitter (interesting side thought that had someone read me that sentence a decade ago I wouldn't have had a clue what any of it meant).

It's long, it's good, it's worth watching and sharing. It's hosted by Michael Shermer the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.

He's called it the "Baloney Detection Kit"

Enjoy.

(Remember, email subscribers to view the videos you've got to go to the blog itself)



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2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the plug :) and mazel tov on the birth of your daughter. I'm a family doc as well, and lately I've been looking into weight loss issues and the fat acceptance movement (I may write a blogpost on the subject eventually, but it's more for my own education), which is probably how I got to following you on Twitter. That, and the Israeli-sounding name got my attention. I'm enjoying my time spent here.

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  2. Thank you very much for this!

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