The Skeptic Zone #637 - 27.December.2020

The Skeptic Zone - A podcast by Richard Saunders

0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:05:00 Pete Evans Booted Off Pete Evans has been removed from Facebook just days after telling Sydney followers to not get tested for COVID-19. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/facebook-boots-celebrity-chef-pete-evans-over-covid-19-misinformation-20201223-p56px0.html 0:11:30 Logical Fallacies. With Michelle Bijkersma This week Michelle looks at "The Slothful Induction Fallacy". This is when even though there is enough good evidence to support a conclusion, this evidence is rejected and replaced by something possibly unrelated but more inline with a particular worldview. A Logical Fallacy is an error we can make in reasoning, but it usually crops up when we are discussing or arguing our point of view. 0:19:18 A Dive into a Trove A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to “Astrology”.   1939, 9 December - Smith’s Weekly 1942, 6 February - The Cairns Post 1977, 1 February - The Canberra Times http://www.trove.nla.gov.au Also 2021 Origami Calendar https://skepticzone.tv/files/2021_origami.pdf 2021 Maynard Calendar Calendar https://skepticzone.tv/files/Maynard2021.pdf Corona Conspiracy - Upload Images https://coronaconspiracy.cloud