Pseudoscience fun, FYI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwyeK36Gh-s

Alien Autopsy film - when you watch it, consider what makes it believable or NOT believable.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MFAvH8m8aI&feature=player_embedded

If you ever have an hour to kill - the definitive documentary on pseudoscience and psychic stuff, in general.

 

 

Skepticism 101

Related to our brief foray into all things skeptical.

Good books, sites, etc.

by Michael Shermer:

Why people believe weird things

The believing brain

The science of good and evil

Science friction

Why Darwin matters

Skeptic Magazine

http://www.skeptic.com/

http://www.michaelshermer.com/

James "The Amazing" Randi

Flim Flam

Conjuring

The Faith Healers

An encyclopedia of claims, frauds and hoaxes of the occult and supernatural

http://www.randi.org/site/

Skeptical Inquirer

http://www.csicop.org/si/

Skeptic's Dictionary

http://skepdic.com/

Richard Feynman - "Cargo Cult Science" essay

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm

Martin Gardner

Fads and fallacies in the name of science

Carl Sagan

The demon-haunted world

Richard Dawkins

Climbing mount improbable

Schick/Vaughn

How to think about weird things

Other good essays and sites:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/scipseud.htm

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html

http://www.rationallyspeaking.org/

http://skepticblog.org/