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The Skeptic Zone


Jan 9, 2021

0:00:00
Introduction
Richard Saunders

0:05:25
An interview with Adrienne Hill

Adrienne Hill from Canada tells us about Tourette Syndrome and some of the so-called alternative treatments that have been offered over the years.

https://tourette.ca

https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/resource/tourette-ocd/home

Monterey Skepticamp Youtube (at 4:53:10)

https://youtu.be/DktlgzdFUTI

0:22:30
Logical Fallacies with Michelle Bijkersma

This week Michelle looks at the fallacy of "Affirming the Consequent".

This is when you assume or conclude a cause for a phenomenon based on the phenomenon itself without taking other possibilities into account.

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.

0:30:25
A Dive into a Trove

A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers.
This week testing psychic claims from 1950.

Into the Unknown - Part #2

http://www.trove.nla.gov.au

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