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Skippy and I have a favor to ask of you.
There is a new TV show in the works. It's called The Skeptologists. Here's a very brief teaser trailer.
The executive producer/host (Brian Dunning, host of the Skeptoid podcast) is trying to show potential networks that there is interest for this kind of thing. He's trying to collect 50,000 emails asking for the show to be aired. If you would like to help out (please, please, please help out!), send an email to skeptologists@newrule.com and merely say something like "Please put The Skeptologists on the air," and sign your name. The email addresses will not be used for any other purpose (remember, this is a skeptic, not a spambot), but if you can't bring yourself to believe that, use a throw-away one from Yahoo or sneakemail or something like that.
Mine said "Please put The Skeptologists on the air. Television is suffering from an overabundance of stupidity, and we need some rational thinking to balance it out."
Stars of the pilot include Dr. Michael Shermer, publisher of "Skeptic Magazine"; Dr. Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society and popular skeptical blogger and host of the wildly popular podcast The Skeptics Guide to the Universe; Dr. Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer; Dr. Kirsten Sanford, host of the This Week in Science podcast; Yau-Man Chan, Chief Technology Officer for Computing Services, Network Services, and Telecommunications at the University of California, Berkeley's College of Chemistry and fourth-place finisher on the reality TV series "Survivor: Fiji"; and Mark Edward, professional mentalist.
Think something like Queer Eye meets The X-Files...but fun. :) The team is sent to investigate some woo topic(s) in each episode and actually investigates it—with science!—instead of just announcing what it is or isn't. Think The Anti-Ghost Hunters. The Skeptologists actually know how to use their (scientific) equipment!
There is a new TV show in the works. It's called The Skeptologists. Here's a very brief teaser trailer.
The executive producer/host (Brian Dunning, host of the Skeptoid podcast) is trying to show potential networks that there is interest for this kind of thing. He's trying to collect 50,000 emails asking for the show to be aired. If you would like to help out (please, please, please help out!), send an email to skeptologists@newrule.com and merely say something like "Please put The Skeptologists on the air," and sign your name. The email addresses will not be used for any other purpose (remember, this is a skeptic, not a spambot), but if you can't bring yourself to believe that, use a throw-away one from Yahoo or sneakemail or something like that.
Mine said "Please put The Skeptologists on the air. Television is suffering from an overabundance of stupidity, and we need some rational thinking to balance it out."
Stars of the pilot include Dr. Michael Shermer, publisher of "Skeptic Magazine"; Dr. Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society and popular skeptical blogger and host of the wildly popular podcast The Skeptics Guide to the Universe; Dr. Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer; Dr. Kirsten Sanford, host of the This Week in Science podcast; Yau-Man Chan, Chief Technology Officer for Computing Services, Network Services, and Telecommunications at the University of California, Berkeley's College of Chemistry and fourth-place finisher on the reality TV series "Survivor: Fiji"; and Mark Edward, professional mentalist.
Think something like Queer Eye meets The X-Files...but fun. :) The team is sent to investigate some woo topic(s) in each episode and actually investigates it—with science!—instead of just announcing what it is or isn't. Think The Anti-Ghost Hunters. The Skeptologists actually know how to use their (scientific) equipment!
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I wonder what they'll do if they ever DO find something they can't explain with science / rationality.
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