My colleague, Alan Bensley, has an article related to these issues.
http://www.csicop.org/author/dalanbensley
Paul
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:01 AM, "Jim Clark"
mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca>> wrote:
Hi
It is no guarantee for sure! But are such cases as Donderi rarer than among
On 12 March2013 Chris Green listed several conspiracy "cannot"s, including
thefollowing:
>Aminority man cannot have been elected president
>by amajority of American voters, therefore...
Here'sanother conspiracy theory, this time from the field of science. According
tothe PBS website accompanyi
Hi
It is no guarantee for sure! But are such cases as Donderi rarer than among
those lacking such training?
I had a quick glance around and it appears belief in extra-terrestrial life
(UFOs??) is unrelated to education or somewhat higher for highly educated
people (field not specified in the
On 12 Mar 2013 at 22:39, Jim Clark wrote:
> 1. He is a communications professor. I've often wondered whether
> journalism students shouldn't be required to take courses in
> statistics and research methods. How else can they properly evaluate
> the truth of real-life events?
As a callow under
Hypothesis: When you are unable to accept that an obvious fact is true (either
because it is too emotionally painful, or because it contradicts prior beliefs
that you regard as imperative), the only explanation is that it has only been
made to seem true by a hidden conspiracy.
An inspirational
Hi
A couple of thoughts.
1. He is a communications professor. I've often wondered whether journalism
students shouldn't be required to take courses in statistics and research
methods. How else can they properly evaluate the truth of real-life events?
2. He appears to have a specialty in ho
Mike P wrote:I do believe 26 children and adults died that day...
Actually it was 28.
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:21 PM, "Mike Palij" wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:37:48 -0700, Beth Benoit wrote:
>> Sadly, here's what may be the latest in the conspiracy theorist scenario -
>> this from a tenur
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:37:48 -0700, Beth Benoit wrote:
Sadly, here's what may be the latest in the conspiracy theorist scenario -
this from a tenured professor at a taxpayer-funded university, Florida
Atlantic University:
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/15/newtown-harassed-by-conspiracy-theor
Sadly, here's what may be the latest in the conspiracy theorist scenario -
this from a tenured professor at a taxpayer-funded university, Florida
Atlantic University:
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/15/newtown-harassed-by-conspiracy-theorists/?hpt=ac_t5
My TIPS query (and I'm not sure we've e
