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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 156 - Susan Gerbic, Wikipediatrician and Activist Booster

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Politics, Religion & Spirituality, News, News Commentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Susan Gerbic is a photographer and skeptical activist from California. She contributes to the Skepticality podcast and Skeptical Inquirer magazine. In addition to co-founding the Monterey County Skeptics, she leads a group called Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia. We've spoken before about her group, but we spoke this time about how to spread our ideas beyond our bubble, how to support other atheist activists, and why updating Wikipedia is so vital.

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Susan Gerbeck is a photographic and skeptical activist from California.

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She contributes to the Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

0:10.0

In addition to co-founding the Monterrey County Skeptics, she leads a group called

0:14.5

Gorilla Skepticism on Wikipedia. We've actually had her on the show

0:19.1

before, but the reason I wanted to talk to her now is because she's been working on some issues that she wanted to talk to us about.

0:29.0

And I really, I'll let her take the lead from here.

0:32.0

So Susan, thanks for joining me again.

0:34.0

Well thank you him it I am so excited to be back on I don't know if you've had a

0:38.8

guest that's been on twice or very rarely it's a it's a special small group. Oh that is fantastic. So hopefully in people

0:48.0

will listen to the first episode interview we did which was a while, but it gives more background on what G.S.O.W. does and who I am, how I became to become a skeptical

1:00.2

activist, how I became an atheist, in all that background that's all there.

1:04.4

But today I kind of wanted to talk about a few other things that, you know, I really was trying

1:10.2

to figure out where would I like to talk about this too and I thought your

1:13.8

audience would probably get it and that's kind of where I want. Well that's awesome so

1:18.6

yeah I'll let you lead the way what is it about spreading information and Wikipedia in particular that

1:26.7

you wanted to talk about?

1:28.7

Well, speaking, going back, you had done an interview with a young

1:33.2

youtuber named Alex O'Connor and listeners can I'm sure they've already heard

1:38.1

that yeah so Alex is a

1:40.0

youtuber that he didn't start too long ago it may have been sometime a

1:43.0

YouTube that he didn't start too long ago. It may have been sometime like summer or fall of last year.

1:48.1

I saw I started watching his videos and I just found them they were well made

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