Here Be Dragons - Critical analysis of pseudoscience 1of5 @djarm67

djarm67 | Here Be Dragons - Critical analysis of pseudoscience 1of5 @djarm67 | Uploaded September 2008 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationism have received much media attention over recent years in their attempts to misrepresent science and insert their particular brand of pseudoscience into the public school science curriculum. Despite their dramatic losses in the courts, the fact that many people blindly believe their lies is indicative of a deeper problem.

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.

Here Be Dragons is written and presented by Brian Dunning, host and producer of the Skeptoid podcast, author of Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena, and Executive Producer of The Skeptologists.

Brian was kind enough to allow me to post this program to this channel. Check out his podcasts at,

skeptoid.com

youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AE587A4C7E406380

youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=djarm67

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$Dinosaur to bird evolution 5of5 Todays scientists are recreating dinosaurs through genetic engineering. Sounds like science fiction? Not any longer. Through rapid advances in genetics, scientists are discovering the genetic traits of dinosaurs in the DNA of birds. They are showing that it is possible to bring back teeth, long tails and hands in place of wings. In Dinosaurs: Return to Life, learn why the dream of recreating the dinosaur genome is coming closer to reality. Ever since Mary Higby Schweitzer peeked inside the fractured thighbone of a Tyrannosaurus rex, the introverted scientists life hasnt been the same. Neither has the field of paleontology. In 2004, Schweitzer gazed through a microscope in her laboratory at North Carolina State University and saw lifelike tissue that had no business inhabiting a fossilized dinosaur skeleton: fibrous matrix, stretchy like a wet scab on human skin; what appeared to be supple bone cells, their three-dimensional shapes intact; and translucent blood vessels that looked as if they could have come straight from an ostrich at the zoo. An alternate hypothesis has been suggested that the soft tissues are in actual fact bacterial biofilms. Kaye TG, Gaugler G, Sawlowicz Z (2008) Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial Biofilms. Whilst certain organisations continue to parrot the phrase no transitional fossils have ever been found the list of species which possess transitional features continues to grow. Epidexipteryx hui, Protoavis, Protarchaeopteryx, Archeopteryx, Avimimus, Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Rahonavis, Shuvuuia, Sinornithosaurus, Beipiasaurus, Microraptor, Nomingia, Epidendrosaurus, Cryptovolans, Scansoriopteryx, Yixianosaurus, Dilong, Pedopenna, Jinfengopteryx, Sinocalliopteryx, Sinornis, Ambiortus, Hesperornis, Ichthyornis Every home should have the Discovery Channel http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7848E22F140FE7DF$

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