October 19, 2024

Elon Musk beats Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett to Rusty Razor pseudoscience award Michael Marshall The Skeptic

Twitter owner Elon Musk has today been named the 2024 recipient of the “Rusty Razor” award, the prize given by The Skeptic to the year’s worst promoters of pseudoscience Credit: Prime Minister’s Office (GODL-India), GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons After his takeover of the platform in 2022, Musk was responsible for firing half of the company’s […]

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Dr Flint Dibble wins 2024 Skeptical Activism Ockham award Michael Marshall The Skeptic

Dr Flint Dibble, an archaeologist who earned international plaudits when he appeared on Joe Rogan’s show to debate and comprehensively debunk lost city of Atlantis claims, has today been named the 2024 recipient of the Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism. After the airing of the Netflix show Ancient Apocalypse, there was a boom in myths

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Neal Stephenson on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, and AI Decades Ahead Skeptic Skeptic

Read More Skeptic Shermer and Stephenson discuss various topics including professional and science fiction writing, the interplay of genetics, environment, and luck in shaping lives, historical contingencies, the development and ethics of the atomic bomb, geopolitical concepts like the Hobbesian Trap and Mutual Assured Destruction, cryptocurrency, AI and the Singularity, mind uploading, human evolution, future

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