[tips] On The Dangers of Pseudoscience
Nice timing. The wife I just returned from a tour of the National Parks (don't ask!) and ended up in Las Vegas. We caught Penn Teller's show there. Penn Gillette gave and fairly long rant on his belief that ALL mediums, psychics, ESPers, etc. are naught but charlatans crooks. (Interestingly, he didn't specifically mention faith healers.) Of course, this is not a new position for him but I was a bit surprised at the lack of applause elicited by his comments. His rant on the TSA and unwarranted searches and seizures at airports was better received. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychology West Chester University of Pennsylvania http://home.comcast.net/~epollak/ Husband, father, grandfather, bluegrass fiddler, banjoist biopsychologist... in approximate order of importance --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=28684 or send a blank email to leave-28684-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] On The Dangers of Pseudoscience
Some might be interested in an opinion piece in the NY Times The Stone column by Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Bourdry on the dangers and costs of pseudoscience; see: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/the-dangers-of-pseudoscience/?_r=0 Some of the comments, however, are really weird. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=28661 or send a blank email to leave-28661-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] On The Dangers of Pseudoscience
Good article that could be a beginning for class discussion on the dangers of pseudoscience. I teach a class on scientific foundations of psych for majors and we explore such issues. It might be useful too in the capstone history and systems classes where upper level students could examine the demarcation issue in relation to phrenology, personality tests, thought field therapies, Freudian contributions, etc. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Oct 11, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: Some might be interested in an opinion piece in the NY Times The Stone column by Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Bourdry on the dangers and costs of pseudoscience; see: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/the-dangers-of-pseudoscience/?_r=0 Some of the comments, however, are really weird. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=28661 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-28661-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=28667 or send a blank email to leave-28667-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
