Philosophy 201:
Multi-Media Weirdness
 


 
 

A. Videos on YouTube

The Colour Changing Card Trick - featuring psychologist Richard Wiseman - amazing!

Compliance Test - illustrates the power of social pressure!

Apollo Robbins on the art of misdirection

Whodunnit?

Michael Shermer Explains How to Fake UFO Photographs - and People Who Believe They are Real!

James Randi has lots of good videos up

Psychic Reading Debunked Piece by Piece

Michael Shermer Debunks the Bible Code

B. Videos & Audio Clips Elsewhere
Skeptilab includes some interesting videos regarding various paranormal henomena.

Skeptical Inquirer Video clips - from The Science Channel, and hosted by William B. Davis (the Smoking Man from The X-Files), these clips evaluate various paranormal claims, and feature some of the authors of the articles in our course pack.

Bogosity - debunks various bogus claims, and includes a discussion of pareidolia.

Video and audio clips from the Milgram experiments.

John Oliver illustrates cold and hot readings (Warning: contains some strong language!)

Bayou to Beltway with Dr. Brooke Breaux and Dr. Robert Michael, Feb. 3, 2021 - UL professors discuss confirmation bias, fake news, etc.

Inoculation Science - brief videos to pre-bunk common misinformation methjods

C. TV In General
Mythbusters debunks myths, often using explosions.

Penn & Teller's Bullshit! debunks various alleged paranormal phenomena.








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