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Don’t Believe
the Esoteric Hype!
Jochen Wolters, Skeptic
Fortune Telling




$850 for 30 minutes
      Image by Flickr/nellyfus
“Revitalized” Water




            $15 per quart
   Source: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/erich.eder/wasser/eder2002.htm
“Quadro Tracker”




   $400 – $8,000 a piece
Source: http://sniffexquestions.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-is-alpha-6-detector.html
Alas, …



     d!      iled!     iled!
Faile      Fa        Fa
Pattern Recognition




useful


     Images by Flickr/aeter and Flickr/Kaptain Kobold
Pattern Recognition




useful                                         deceiving


     Images by Flickr/aeter and Flickr/Kaptain Kobold
Concurrency vs. Causality
                                                 ✔
 useful




          Image (right) by Flickr/manyhighways
Concurrency vs. Causality
                                                                ✔
   useful



                                                                ✘
deceiving


            Images by Flickr/anna gutermuth and Flickr/manyhighways
Confirmation Bias




Confirming                               Contradicting
 Evidence                                 Evidence


            Image by Flickr/carbonnyc
Confirmation Bias




Confirming                               Contradicting
 Evidence                                 Evidence

      always deceiving !
            Image by Flickr/carbonnyc
The Antidote:
Good Science
The Sixteen Postulates of Science
http://bit.ly/GoodScience
#4
Scientific experiments
should be repeatable
under similar circumstances.



The Sixteen Postulates of Science
http://bit.ly/GoodScience
Why
bother?
Fact
  v.
fiction
Educate
yourself!
The Skeptics Society
http://skeptic.org
James Randi
Educational
Foundation
http://randi.org
Carl Sagan
The
Demon-
Haunted
World
Don’t Believe
the Esoteric Hype!
Jochen Wolters, Skeptic

http://polytropia.com
@jochenwolters

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