Don’t Believe the Esoteric Hype! Jochen Wolters, Skeptic
Don't Believe the (Esoteric) Hype
May 16, 2015
The slides from my presentation at Ignite Fort Collins #10. Watch this talk on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2OH4CxFdmg
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Don’t Believethe Esoteric Hype!Jochen Wolters, Skeptic
Fortune Telling
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$850 for 30 minutes
“Revitalized” Water
$15 per quartSource: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/erich.eder/wasser/eder2002.htm
“Quadro Tracker”
$400 – $8,000 a pieceSource: http://sniffexquestions.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-is-alpha-6-detector.html
Alas, …
Failed!
Failed!
Failed!
Pattern Recognition
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useful
Pattern Recognition
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useful deceiving
Concurrency vs. Causality
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useful✔
Concurrency vs. Causality
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useful
deceiving
✔
✘
Confirmation Bias
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ConfirmingEvidence
ContradictingEvidence
Confirmation Bias
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ConfirmingEvidence
ContradictingEvidence
always deceiving !
The Antidote:
Good Science
The Sixteen Postulates of Sciencehttp://bit.ly/GoodScience
#4Scientific experiments should be repeatableunder similar circumstances.
The Sixteen Postulates of Sciencehttp://bit.ly/GoodScience
Why bother?
Factv.
fiction
Educateyourself!
The Skeptics Societyhttp://skeptic.org
James RandiEducationalFoundationhttp://randi.org
Carl Sagan
TheDemon-HauntedWorld
Don’t Believethe Esoteric Hype!Jochen Wolters, Skeptic
http://polytropia.com@jochenwolters
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