Wet Blanket Skeptics Podcast

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about the illusion of explanatory depth, optimism bias, Alex Jones, Tinder, bitcoin, socialism, capitalism, economics, the war against the media, futurism, and teleportation.   References: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~rlawson/PDF_Files/L-M&C-2006.pdf https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw-bicycle-from-memory-and-renders-results/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-infowars/apple-youtube-and-others-drop-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-idUSKBN1KR0MZ https://gizmodo.com/woman-tricks-dozens-of-men-on-tinder-into-showing-up-fo-1828467914 https://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/517915510/americas-complacent-class-how-self-segregation-is-leading-to-stagnation

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about recording in-person, the sunk cost fallacy, Richard Spencer, the election results, the Pope, zipper merging, sacred cows, and lessons learned. References: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-important-everybody-s-going-to-save-something-now-save http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/07/the-beauty-of-zipper-merging-or-why-you-should-drive-ruder/ Harrison’s recommended podcasts: http://pennsundayschool.com/ Skepticism: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ and http://ohnopodcast.com/ Rationality: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/ Economics: http://www.econtalk.org/ Politics: http://the-e-r-podcast.foreignpolicy.com/

In this week's podcast, Harrison, Jake and Joe talk about the election results, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, diabetes, the Bermuda Triangle, space travel, and audio issues. References: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/07/tuesday-shouldnt-change-the-narrative/ http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/myths/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccdfzq2M1Ec https://www.facebook.com/officialdanagould/posts/947789788661093 http://skepdic.com/bermuda.html http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/12/trans-teen-suicide-spike-post-election https://www.washingtonpost.com/2016-election-results/us-presidential-race/

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about voting, TCM, meteorology, sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, addiction, food documentaries, DNA, and the Bermuda triangle. References: http://phys.org/news/2016-10-scientists-great-barrier-reef.html#nRlv https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/great-barrier-reef-severe-stress-not-dead-yet http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar-really-make-children-hyper/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/high-fructose-corn-syrup/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-sweetener-wars-hfcs-strikes-back/ http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/high-fructose-corn-syrup-addictive-myth/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-the-movie-fed-up-make-sense/ https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4088 http://azdailysun.com/news/national/human-dna-tied-mostly-to-single-exodus-from-africa-long/article_4dd9c676-bf0c-52c0-8a79-8249722ef66d.htm

In this week's podcast, Harrison, Jake, and Joe talk about the show’s final episodes, Katie May, chiropractic, unfriending on social media, scientism, Skepchick, Rebecca Watson, elevatorgate, rape accusations, Exxon, the Great Barrier Reef, and devil’s milk. References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TpRfDdyU0 http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/10/20/mystery-solved-chiropractic-manipulation-of-the-neck-did-cause-katie-mays-death-from-stroke/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/9-forensic-science http://www.innocenceproject.org/ http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ http://skepchick.org/ http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1004-tavris-what-is-rape-20151004-story.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMi0UtvTIc http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/exxon-decides-to-fight-new-york-s-climate-change-probe http://www.outsideonline.com/2112086/obituary-great-barrier-reef-25-million-bc-2016 http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/devils-milk-could-be-the-killer-ingredient-in-war-on-superbugs-20161014-gs29l5.html

In this week's podcast, Harrison, Jake, and Joe talk about racism, heroin, vaccine-preventable diseases, chiropractic, scientism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kurt Vonnegut, climate change, and time crystals. References: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/what-are-immediate-short-term-effects-heroin-use http://www.narconon.org/drug-abuse/heroin/organs.html http://time.com/27308/4-diseases-making-a-comeback-thanks-to-anti-vaxxers/ http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/586 https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0393082067 http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2013/08/steven-pinker-embraces-scientism-bad.html https://gradycarter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/20120831-115749.jpg http://www.popsci.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-just-proposed-government-that-doesnt-work http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/9119/images/notripevpyr.jpg http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/in-1988-kurt-vonnegut-gives-seven-pieces-advice-to-people-living-in-2088.html http://www.climatecentral.org/news/400-ppm-carbon-dioxide-spiral-20748 http://azdailysun.com/news/national/greenland-ice-loss-trillion-pounds-bigger-than-thought/article_325429f7-fc69-589f-a7ab-f28c6aca2e56.html http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/impossible-time-crystals-may-actually-be-real-say-physicists http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/

In this week's podcast, Jake is absent, so Harrison performs a skeptical litmus test on Joe, where they talk about vaccines, psychics, ghosts, conspiracy theories, and more. *Spoiler alert for Zoolander 2* References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo http://www.skepticink.com/tombc/

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about the illusion of explanatory depth, randomized controlled trials, placebos, placebo effects, alternative medicine, marijuana, and a Chinese satellite. References: http://herewearepodcast.com//episode/64/philip-fernbach http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/02/492394717/fda-bans-19-chemicals-used-in-antibacterial-soaps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_in_the_Land_of_Chalk_Drawings https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/08/21/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0A_7JVce2g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-hYHqnyhvI http://huffpost.com/us/entry/203990 https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-it-worked-for-me-gambit/ http://bestbuds.com/fbi-hackers-smoke-weed/ http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-will-fall-to-earth--somewhere--in-2017-20160921-grlodq.html

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about bidets, Rob Zombie, third-party candidates, Clinton cash, the Trump Foundation, Gary Johnson, Aleppo, Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka, voting strategies, truth, and conspiracy theorists. References: http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-bidet-toilet-seat-washlet/ http://chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/f/Can-You-Drink-Distilled-Water.htm http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/07/fact-checking-donations-clinton-foundation/ http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/12/1569223/-The-Trump-Foundation-is-a-real-scandal-and-it-should-be-a-campaign-ending-scandal http://www.politifact.com/personalities/gary-johnson/ https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/4yf1kk/cnn_recently_hosted_a_green_party_town_hall_i/ http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2016/09/former_bush_adviser_kori_schake_explains_her_pledge_to_vote_for_hillary.html http://thehill.com/policy/defense/295409-johnson-tops-among-veterans http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about jet fuel, steel beams, lifestraws, pulchronomics, the autism spectrum, methane clathrate, the difference model, denial of mental illness, depression, Politifact, and protesting oil pipelines. References: http://www.givewell.org/international/health/water/process http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-ts-laham-/sitting-pretty-good-looking-people-make-more-money-but-its-not-all-roses_b_8203894.html http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd/index.shtml http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/08/how-much-methane-came-out-of-that-hole-in-siberia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/health/flossing-teeth-cavities.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-depressed-adults-in-the-u-s-remain-untreated/# http://mentalpod.com/ https://www.netflix.com/title/80046193 http://www.heraldnet.com/news/state-to-receive-14-million-for-mental-health-facilities/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/6/the-latest-mental-health-treatment-instead-of-jail/ http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/ http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/ http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-pipeline-fight-and-americas-dark-past

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about Women’s Equality Day, flu shots, mountain dew, gas bubbles, interstellar probes, and Joe Mercola. References: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty http://sciencenewsjournal.com/flu-vaccinated-mothers-protect-newborn-children-according-new-study/ http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/misconceptions.htm http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/10-flu-myths http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/do-flu-shots-cause-the-flu-12-influenza-vaccine-myths-busted/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3699516/Watch-shocking-moment-Earth-WOBBLES-Remarkable-footage-shows-weird-phenomenon-caused-leaking-methane.html http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.2035 http://acsh.org/news/2016/08/17/joe-mercola-hits-a-new-low-saying-zika-is-caused-by-vitamin-a-deficiency/ http://www.givewell.org/

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about karma, feminism, the patriarchy, rape culture, men’s rights, and abortions.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake are takin’ it easy.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about rainforests, the squatty potty, bidets, local food, rising sea levels, and guns on campus.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about rambling, Mark Fuhrman, conspiracy cascades, stuff we hate, toilets, hippies, karma, the pledge of allegiance, freeganism, hate speech, GMO labeling, and Jill Stein.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about iTunes ratings, rambling, skepticism, Politics, Islamophobia, CSIcon, and violence.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about skepticism, rationalism, vegetarianism, polyamory, monogamy, Pokémon Go, Black Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about libertarianism, classic liberalism, anarcho-capitalism, taxation, theft, and Gary Johnson.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about terrorism, police brutality, vegetarianism, veganism, hate speech, and emotional violence.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about the appeal to nature fallacy, social conservatism, profiling, and the recent Arizona meteor sighting.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about sexuality, game theory, the prisoner’s dilemma, Orlando, tragedies, Brock Turner, rape, and xHamster.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about planned obsolescence, self-driving cars, déjà vu, dreams, science deniers, global warming, Facebook, and Glenn Beck.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about gender roles, moral purity, Hamilton, and planned obsolescence.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about cryonics, self-driving cars, utilitarianism, and John Horgan’s critique of skepticism.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake review the topics from our first nine episodes, looking for sacred cows by asking each other about beliefs, evidence, and what it would take to change our minds on each topic.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about being back at it again, effective altruism, Watchmen spoilers, utilitarianism, water rights, and social signaling.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about gender roles, atheism, agnosticism, theism, knowledge vs. belief, and ghosts.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about effective altruism, charity, prostitution, and pornography.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about identity politics, QUILTBAG, essentialism, marijuana legalization, regulation, drugs, and astrology.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about evolution, top-down systems, Matt Ridley, libertarianism, conspiracy theories, boobs, society, politicians, the patriarchy, GMOs, organic food, mandatory labeling, the Food Babe, censorship, and the right to know.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about Hillary Clinton, lying, Machiavellian beliefs, monetary influence in politics, rape fantasy porn, lobbying groups, Bernie Sanders, the Iraq war, the afterlife, spirituality, drugs, God of the gaps, skepticism, rationalism, swirlies, Donald Trump, and racism.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about confirmation bias, the typical skeptical stances on a variety of topics, Bernie Sanders, #fieldofbernies, groupthink, cognitive dissonance, free speech, and the Fountain Hills, Arizona protest.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about Donald Trump, con men, immigrants, Mexicans, racism, Donald Trump protesters, Bernie Sanders, hate, love, free speech, and the regressive left.

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about skepticism, rationalists, science, freethought, atheism, magicians, Penn & Teller, nuclear power, conspiracy theorists, ghosts, Splenda, sucralose, and leukemia.