roseglass
4th July 2008, 05:41 PM
Greetings,
I have really been enjoying going through the podcast archive on Skepticality and had no idea that the show was online until I did a mp3 search for James Randi interviews. While I am not an atheist or secular humanist (Painesian Deist here - so not unionized), Tom Flynn's interviews were worth listening to for everyone concerned about Constitutional issues in relation to how religion has seeped into politics over the last fifty years.
I found Rob Irving's talk on crop circles to be right up my ally. He had great points of view (insights) about the history, background and legal ramifications of doing circle art. Plus I was surprised to hear that he also believed that there was no simple explanation for things they have experienced while working on projects late at night. The way Skepticality handled that interview was extremely fair and open.
On a more direct note, Benjamin Radford was, in my opinion, dead on about the problems facing lake monsters as a possible phenomenon and confirming that much of the reports out there have down to earth (or above water) explanations. One could only hope that more researchers have done the legwork or hold the attitude that he had about following up on case work.
I've gone through about half the archive in the last week - will probably finish the rest by next week.
Thanks again.
I have really been enjoying going through the podcast archive on Skepticality and had no idea that the show was online until I did a mp3 search for James Randi interviews. While I am not an atheist or secular humanist (Painesian Deist here - so not unionized), Tom Flynn's interviews were worth listening to for everyone concerned about Constitutional issues in relation to how religion has seeped into politics over the last fifty years.
I found Rob Irving's talk on crop circles to be right up my ally. He had great points of view (insights) about the history, background and legal ramifications of doing circle art. Plus I was surprised to hear that he also believed that there was no simple explanation for things they have experienced while working on projects late at night. The way Skepticality handled that interview was extremely fair and open.
On a more direct note, Benjamin Radford was, in my opinion, dead on about the problems facing lake monsters as a possible phenomenon and confirming that much of the reports out there have down to earth (or above water) explanations. One could only hope that more researchers have done the legwork or hold the attitude that he had about following up on case work.
I've gone through about half the archive in the last week - will probably finish the rest by next week.
Thanks again.