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502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism, Pseudoscience, Philosophy, and more.

Audio uploads of Dedham TV"s "502 Conversations". Conversations with experts in their fields about science; skepticism; medicine; quackery; pseudoscience; philosophy; belief, why and how we believe; knowledge; and more. Guests have included Dr. Paul Offit; microbiologist Natalia Pasternak; Julia Sweeney; Sheldon Helms; JAMA Editor in Chief Dr. Howard Bauchner; Massimo Pigliucci; James Randi; Ray Hyman; James Alcock; Dr. Harriet Hall; and others. Full interviews also available on youtube. © 2022

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00:55:00

Dr. Paul Offit "Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of...

502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism,... ·

2022/01/25

Paul A. Offit M.D. is a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases; Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; and Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is a Board Member of Every Child by Two and is a founding member of the Autism Science Foundation. He is an expert

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00:53:24

A conversation with Massimo Pigliucci

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2022/01/25

A discussion about belief and knowledge; "knowledge of" versus "knowledge debt"; expertise and authority; deduction vs. induction vs. intuition vs. revelation; and more. I should point out that when relating my previous conversation about knowledge with Dr. James Alcock, in addition to the comment about content and the degree of conviction, Dr. Alcock did speak of Plato's justified, true, belief rubric. Massimo Pigliucci PhD., (patreon.com/PlatoFootnotes) has a doctorate in Genetics from the

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00:55:24

Comedian, writer, producer, and actor ~ Julia Sweeney

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2022/01/25

Comedian, writer, producer, actor, monologist, voracious reader, atheist, and Center for Inquiry board of director Julia Sweeney. Some of Julia’s TV credits include Brooklyn Nine- Nine, Fraiser, Family Guy, Mad About You, and of course her multi-season stint as a cast member on SNL. She has appeared in films such as Pulp Fiction, Vegas Vacation, and Stuart Little. Julia is also a playwright and has created several one person shows, among them God Said Ha; Letting Go of God, which chronicles her

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01:15:27

Mentalist and Magician ~ Banachek!

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2022/01/25

Described as “the cream of the crop” of entertainers, Banachek is the world’s leading Mentalist. His talents are so incredible that he is the only mentalist ever to fool scientists into believing he possessed “Psychic powers”, only to later reveal he was fooling them. He’s astounded audiences around the world, and has been featured on CNN Live, NBC’s Today Show, Inside Edition, ABC’s Nightline, the BBC, and numerous network TV specials, as well as in print in the New York Times, USA Today,

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00:54:28

Mark Edward - "Psychic Blues: Confessions of a...

502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism,... ·

2022/01/25

Brian Kerby Q&A's with Consulting Occultist and author Mark Edward. Mark discusses his book "Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium", his work on the Psychic Friends Network, being named a "Psychic Superstar", and the "World's Greatest Psychic" and more...much more. Mark Edward has been involved in skeptic activism since circa 1989, and was on the editorial board of Skeptic Magazine. He spent almost 10 years embedded with psychics of all types, all the while collecting information and

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00:52:41

Dr. James Alcock on his book "Belief: What It Means...

502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism,... ·

2022/01/25

Dr. James Alcock has a PhD in psychology and teaches at York University in Toronto. His research interests are focused on belief and in particular, on why people believe in things that have no scientific basis. A noted critic of parapsychology, he is a fellow of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and also on the editorial board. He has received CSI’s highest award, the In Praise of Reason award. He is also a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. This episode may also be viewed on

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01:01:24

Dr. Harriet Hall, the Skepdoc, at CSICON 2016

502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism,... ·

2022/01/25

A Q&A with Dr. Harriet Hall of skepdoc.info regarding acupuncture, statistics, quackery, chiropractors, homeopathy, naturopathy and more. Dr. Hall is a retired family physician and former Air Force flight surgeon. She writes about medicine, so-called complementary and alternative medicine, science, quackery, and critical thinking. She is an editor and one of the five MD founders of the Science-Based Medicine blog. She writes the SkepDoc column in Skeptic magazine, is a contributing editor to

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01:41:47

Ray Hyman, James Alcock, and The Amazing Randi at...

502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism,... ·

2022/01/25

A conversation about how we are fooled, belief, why and how we believe; shut eyes and cold readers; cognitive psychology; making sense of the world; magic, mentalism, and trickery; and more, with: Ray Hyman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Oregon; James Alcock, Professor Of Psychology, Glendon College, York University; and James The Amazing Randi, Magician and Escape Artist, Demystifier of the Pseudoscientific. This episode may also be viewed on youtube.

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00:16:12

Dr. Paul Offit from CSICON 2016

502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism,... ·

2022/01/25

Recorded at CSICON 2016, Brian Kerby Q&A's with Dr. Paul Offit about vaccines, measles outbreaks, the false link between MMR and autism, how much damage the Lancet publication of the Wakefield paper did, the history of the anti-vaccination movement, vaccine religious exemptions and child neglect, and more. Dr. Offit is a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine that has been credited with

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