SKEPTIC 24.2
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In this issue: The SkepDoc: Laser Therapy: Hope or Hype and Hokum? • The Gadfly: The Sisyphean Challenges of Skepticism or, Start by Disbelieving • Pterosaur Thunderbird: The Origin of a Fake Native American Legend with an Antievolution Agenda • Conversations with My Dead Mother: Why We See Signs and Omens in Everyday Events • Is Cousin Marriage Dangerous? • Therapeutic Touch Redux: Twenty Years After the “Emily Event” Energy Therapies Live on Through Bad Science • What Can Science Learn from Religion? Steven Pinker on Religious Beliefs and Rituals • Becoming Fantastic: Why People Embellish Already Accomplished Lives with Incredible Tales of UFOs and Other Phenomena • 1984 in 2019: The New Privacy Threat from China’s Social Credit Surveillance System • Michael Shermer v. Brian Huffling: Is the Reality of Evil Good Evidence Against the Christian God? • Graham Hancock’s America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization reviewed by Jason Colavito • Junior Skeptic # 71 — The Colossal Case of the Cardiff Giant: One of America’s Greatest Hoaxes.
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JUNIOR SKEPTIC # 71
The Colossal Case of the Cardiff Giant: One of America’s Greatest Hoaxes
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SCIENCE SALON # 70
Dr. Brian Keating — Losing the Nobel Prize
A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor
In this wide-ranging conversation Science Salon host Dr. Michael Shermer speaks with cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Dr. Brian Keating about the following topics:
- how he almost won the Nobel Prize for his research that confirmed the inflationary model of the Big Bang
- the problems with the Nobel Prize as it is currently structured, such as its limitation to only three people (when modern experiments are typically directed by a great many more); that it can’t be awarded posthumously (thereby neglecting people like Amos Tversky, who did as much work as his Nobel Prize-winning collaborator Daniel Kahneman); its neglect of many women scientists as deserving of the prize as their male counterparts, and especially how it distorts incentives to collaborate in science
- his upbringing and what inspired him to probe the deepest questions about the nature of the cosmos and reality
- what it’s like conducting research in the harsh conditions at the South Pole
- what banged in the Big Bang and what there was before the Big Bang
- the possibility (or not) of a multiverse model and a cyclical model of universes outside of, or before, our universe
- the relationship between science and religion and why they need not always be in conflict
- his Prager U video on why believing in the multiverse takes as much faith as believing in God.
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