14 July 2009

Michael Shermer — Baloney Detection Kit

There is a lot of info and opinion around now that we're in an age where communication is everywhere. Ideas compete for attention and validation. Which one's are true? Which ones are purposely designed to fool you and take advantage of your hard-wired consciousness which is "designed" to be deceived.

This is the first video from The Richard Dawkins Foundation which has its youtube channel here.

http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet

Michael Shermer, Cal Tech professor and heavyweight of the skeptic movement introduces us to The Baloney Detection Kit, first coined by Carl Sagan in his book The Demon Haunted World.