Ross Meets David Mikkelson: Snopes Edition

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ross sits down at CSICon 2019 with David Mikkelson, the creator of Snopes.com, to talk about fact checking, Disney urban legends, waging internet debates and finding reliable information in the post-truth age of fake news and alternative facts.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to owner Ross and Carrie, the show where we don't just report on fringe
0:13.8	science, spirituality and claims of the paranormal, but take part ourselves.
0:18.1	You're all pullarmers, clams, we show up, she's on her off the toe.
0:21.6	I'm a splatter.
0:23.0	And I'm Carrie Poppy.
0:24.7	To that, condons you, I didn't think so.
0:26.8	Well, I'm Carrie and I'm here by myself.
0:29.6	And Ross actually went off to Psycon.
0:33.3	That's a convention put on by the Center for Inquiry and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
0:38.8	They have a bunch of science-themed speakers and people who are experts in outreach and
0:43.5	things like that every year.
0:45.7	And Ross was there earlier this October and snagged this cool get of chatting with David
0:52.2	and Mikkelson from Snopes.
0:54.7	So y'all have probably heard of Snopes, but it's a great website for fact checking and
0:59.5	source monitoring, anything that you see on the internet.
1:02.6	Well, since I didn't get to be there, I get to be here.
1:05.6	Giving you this intro, I'll be back for the outro and in between, I'll let you know who
1:10.1	sponsored this episode.
1:11.9	Who do you think it is?
1:13.1	Who do you think?
1:14.8	Exciting stuff.
1:15.8	Here's Ross and David Mikkelson.
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