![]() ![]() ![]() I've spent a lot of my time going to see people who say they can talk the dead. So I spent a lot of my time looking at things like alternative cancer kills and the people who promote those and alternative medicine. And then another part of the, the work that we do, which is the bulk of my work, is to find ideas that aren't backed by evidence and find people who are promoting those ideas, find people who are buying into those ideas and to explore them and figure out if anything can be done to prevent people being confused by them, harmed by them misled by them in those kinds of things. So we'll do work, uh, to forward science education. Uh, the whole purpose of our charity is to promote science to challenge pseudoscience. So I'm Michael Marshall and I'm the project director of the good thinking society, which is a charity based in the UK. I’m going to let my guest introduce himself in a moment, because he does a better job than I could. I remember thinking, ‘These are people who truly value knowledge, and they do so at a real cost-social stigma.This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on March 27, 2020. On another level, it seemed to me that some of the method used by this supposedly ridiculous group was far closer to the method of the aforementioned giants than what we see today from science as a whole. Something about it just resonated with me-not only on a personal level, but also on a strictly logical level. During this period of study and examination I came to some literature from the Flat Earth Society. This led me to a lengthy study into various ways we view the world, both orthodox and unorthodox, and their rational consequences and foundations. ![]() One could say like many today that up to this point I was standing on the shoulders of giants, but I had a deaf ear to both what they had to say about the matter as well as what assumptions they had to take to lead them to their position. “One day while walking in the woods as a young man I had a notable experience that lead me to question everything I’ve taken for granted as true over the years all those things we simply accept without properly examining their logical and rational basis and foundations. ![]()
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