In the tradition of BS! a new skeptical show might be coming to your TV dial (do TVs still have dials?) Featuring Phil Plait and SGU's Dr. Novella:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/03/27/skeptologists/>

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/sgublog/?p=162>


Can you dig it?

Conspiracy Skeptic Podcast
http://www.yrad.com/cs>

Let me try those URLs again. The board doesn't like if you to wrap an URL with an A tag.

Phil's site on it

Dr. N's site on it



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Conspiracy Skeptic Podcast
http://www.yrad.com/cs

P&T are fabulous entertainers and Bullshit! is always fun and clever, but I'm hoping I'll enjoy this new show better.

Bullshit, for my tastes, is too political. This made more sense to me when I learned Teller was a Cato Institute Fellow; somehow, I always felt P&T or their writers might be leaning a little too heavily on Libertarian-biased sources for information.

P&T are entitled to their politics--it's their show. But I think it makes the show weaker.

One thing I've enjoyed about Steven Novella and his band of rogues (on their podcast) is that they generally avoid politics and stick to hardcore skepticism. They have axes to grind, but they are scientific rather than economic.

I'm grateful for Bullshit! and thankful to P&T for the pioneering work they've done for the cause of skepticism through the medium of television, but am glad they'll soon have competition. I bet they're glad too.

I think that you're right in claiming that the guys will enjoy the competition. That's how libertarians roll.

As for BS being "too political", I completely disagree. No offense to our American friends, but that country's political system is fucked. Anything that attempts to discredit the RepubliCrats is a breath of fresh air, especially if it has an old school American libertarian bent to it.

I honestly think that Penn and Teller are doing their part to help America rediscover why they used to be so great. Anyone that thinks that there is even a difference between the Republicans and Democrats is part of the problem, and has lost sight of the values that the US was founded on.

But then again, I come from a bullshit socialist country too, so I may be talking out of turn.

Cheers,
Paul

I will definitely be tuning in!

Cheers - Mattus

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"The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic" (1833-1899)

> Anything that attempts to discredit the RepubliCrats is a breath of fresh air, especially if it has
> an old school American libertarian bent to it.
> I honestly think that Penn and Teller are doing their part to help America rediscover why they used
> to be so great. Anyone that thinks that there is even a difference between the Republicans and
> Democrats is part of the problem, and has lost sight of the values that the US was founded on.

I'm sure P&T are promoting what they believe to be best for the nation--and I'm glad you enjoy the blatant libertarian focus. But I'm hoping the Skeptologists gets picked-up by a network so I can enjoy tele-skepticism without the intrusion and bias of any particular political agenda.

Sad is it may seem, in this day and age, skepticism IS a political agenda.

--PRW