Skeptic Check: Conspiracy!

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2010

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Apollo moon landing is a hoax! 9-11 was an inside job! Our government keeps alien bodies racked and stacked in an underground bunker! And as for the evidence … well … put on your tin hats, folks, we’re going deep, deep, deep into conspiracy with journalist David Aaronovitch. Also – the truth is out there, but it’s ignored. Jonah Lehrer on why scientists can overlook evidence. Plus, money for meters and your spooks for free: ghost detectors hit the market. And Hollywood Reality Check and Phil Plait on bogus bomb detectors. It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it! Guests: Phil Plait - Astronomer, keeper of badastronomy.com, and author of Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . David Aaronovitch- Columnist with the Times newspaper of London and author of Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History Jonah Lehrer - Contributing editor at Wired magazine and author of How We Decide Matt Lowry - High school physics teacher and keeper of the Skeptical Teacher web site Jim Underdown - Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, West - Los Angeles Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	Black helicopters, strange lights in the sky, documents with paragraphs in
1:06.0	out, it's all part of a vast conspiracy to take up a lot of my time.
1:10.5	Yeah, Seth, why's that?
1:11.5	Molly, you just don't know or maybe you do.
1:13.7	How many emails and phone calls I get every week from people who are trying to convince me that the government's
1:18.0	hiding aliens visiting the Earth.
1:20.0	That's incredible because as a SETI scientist, it would be job security for you to find
1:23.8	extraterrestrials. But I suppose no matter what you say to these believers...
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