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🗓️ 6 April 2007
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This 15-point checklist will help you tell science from pseudoscience.
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0:00.0 | From all the experience of debunking urban legends and false claims, I've developed |
0:08.4 | the sort of toolkit that I use to help me tell what's real from what's not. |
0:13.3 | And today, I've assembled that toolkit into a 15-point checklist for you. |
0:18.5 | Next time you hear a questionable claim, ask these 15 questions, and I guarantee you'll |
0:24.8 | wind up with a solid verdict on the veracity of that claim. |
0:29.7 | How to spot pseudoscience is up next on Skeptoid. |
0:34.0 | Hey everyone, Brian here. |
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1:16.7 | Thanks. |
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1:24.0 | I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. |
1:27.4 | How to spot pseudoscience. |
1:30.5 | Carl Sagan was one of the first to bring to the mass public a toolkit for deciphering |
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