Wet Blanket Skeptics Podcast - 2016-10-09: Scientism

Oct 09 2016 71 mins

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In this week's podcast, Harrison, Jake, and Joe talk about racism, heroin, vaccine-preventable diseases, chiropractic, scientism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kurt Vonnegut, climate change, and time crystals.

References:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/what-are-immediate-short-term-effects-heroin-use

http://www.narconon.org/drug-abuse/heroin/organs.html

http://time.com/27308/4-diseases-making-a-comeback-thanks-to-anti-vaxxers/

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/586

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0393082067

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2013/08/steven-pinker-embraces-scientism-bad.html

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http://www.popsci.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-just-proposed-government-that-doesnt-work

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http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/in-1988-kurt-vonnegut-gives-seven-pieces-advice-to-people-living-in-2088.html

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/400-ppm-carbon-dioxide-spiral-20748

http://azdailysun.com/news/national/greenland-ice-loss-trillion-pounds-bigger-than-thought/article_325429f7-fc69-589f-a7ab-f28c6aca2e56.html

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/impossible-time-crystals-may-actually-be-real-say-physicists

http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/

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