Sunday, May 18, 2008

Ghost Hunter's get spanked - Dragon*Con '07


It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

-Michael Shermer.


This is a debate featuring skeptics Michael Shermer and Allison Smith against true believers Patrick Burns and Graham Watkins. Watch and see what happens to the claims of the supernatural when pressed for evidence.

Of particular note, is when in part three Watkins - a believer - pointedly notes that the "voices" recorded by ghost hunters are done so poorly using such poor methods he says "The whole set up is a model for accidental fraud." Sorry ghost busters!

Also worth noting is how often the believers are forced to admit their evidence is lousy.


Part one:

Part two:

Part three:

Part four:

Part five:

Part six:

2 comments:

Clair said...

I was @ that "debate". It was fun, yet somewhat disappointing. I guess that's what I should suspect coming from the likes of the panelists -- not Dr. Shermer or Allison, but the "believers".

I'm looking forward to this year's Skeptic track.

Clair said...

Oops. Alison.