November 16th, 2011 Alex Tsakiris

Skeptics and Beliver square off in a discussion about Skepticism, science and some controversial past Skeptiko interviews.

Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for a discussion with Monster Talk podcast hosts Blake Smith, Ben Radford, and Karen Stollznow. This episode is also published on the Skepticality podcast.

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Lynn

Great interview, Alex! It’s so refreshing to listen to your show because you are a true skeptic in the classical and scientific sense in that you follow the evidence where it leads. Thank you for that. You blew the “septics” out of the water.
http://www.skeptiko.com/ Alex Tsakiris

thx Lynn
Sifraser

I do not believe there is some great conspiracy by the skeptics, but that the reason why they may be antagonistic to psi, mediumship et al is that the evidence causes them to have cognitive dissidence. Put it this way, say you were devout christian and then someone comes along and shows evidence that jesus never existed etc. naturally you would deny it because you would find it too hard to comprehend
http://www.skeptiko.com/ Alex Tsakiris

I agree… and I also think it’s more complicated… there is a lot at stake in preserving the existing paradigm… whenever there’s “a lot at stake” there are manipulators.
http://www.facebook.com/raincreations Jeff Wroblewski

It also means that if you believe in psychics and someone shows you evidence against psychics you wont believe it. So how about next time someone asks you if psychics are out there you say “I don’t know”.
http://www.facebook.com/raincreations Jeff Wroblewski

Carl posts: ” I found the “skeptic” questions, many of them I should say, to be
almost insulting … the kind of questions you might ask to someone you
believe has very little experience reading and analyzing data/questions”

It seemed to me Mr. Tsakiris never researched psychic cases to determine which one he thought was the best evidence of a psychic at work. Much less the one he had someone else pick. He didnt even read the article Mr. Radford wrote. An article he spent 18 MONTHS RESEARCHING. Mr. Tsakiris, instead, just talked to some people about it, and then came to a well thought out reasoned and logical conclusion. Sounds good to me……… and the aliens that live under my house.

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