Ross and Carrie Test the Perimeter Fences: Responses to Criticism Edition

Oh No, Ross and Carrie

Ross and Carrie

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ross shares his talk from SkeptiCamp LA, looking at how practitioners of non-science wall themselves off from criticism. See why an individual or organization might ignore its critics, attack, cut ties, or elect to positively engage.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Ono Ross and Carey, this show where we don't just report on fringe science, spirituality, claims to the paranormal,
0:14.5	no way we take part ourselves.
0:15.9	Yep, when they make the claims, we show up so you don't have to.
0:18.9	I'm Ross Blotcher.
0:19.9	And I'm Carrie Poppy, and we are here today with a very special talk from one Ross Blotcher.
0:26.0	Have you heard of this guy?
0:27.0	I have.
0:28.0	You're him.
0:29.0	Yeah, that's right.
0:30.0	And this was a talk that I gave for Skepticamp, LA, this year.
0:35.0	And it was a free conference.
0:37.0	It's this fun kind of like grassroots participant driven conference
0:41.6	where you sign up friends to be speakers and they just share something
0:45.3	either they've been thinking about or working on and you know the pressure's low and our friend
0:50.6	Wendy Hughes organized this this year and brought it back to LA.
0:54.4	And she was goaded on by Susan Gerbeck, another friend of ours, and helped by Heather Henderson and
1:00.6	Paula Lauterbach and Emory Emory and they put together this again free conference in North Hollywood
1:06.0	I've got to give a shout out to one of our listeners I had put out a very short notice
1:11.4	flash just like hey this thing's going on, feel free to join.
1:14.7	And Terry showed up and not only participated in the day and made new friends, but she gave us these
1:20.9	two bags of vegan snacks.
1:23.4	Oh yes, I just ate some of these barbecue chips the other day.
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