Philosophy 210:
Multi-Media Weirdness

 

 
 

A. Videos on YouTube

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

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

James Randi has lots of good videos up

Anderson Cooper debunks psychic Sylvia Brown

Psychic Reading Debunked Piece by Piece

Michael Shermer Debunks the Bible Code

B. Videos Elsewhere

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.

C. Podcasts

The Princeton Review has a series entitled "LSAT Logic in Everyday Life" - many of these discuss fallacies and errors of the sort we discuss in class.

Last Updated: 8/09