Sentences with phrase «debunkers at»

A while back I brought to your attention the great analysis of my current research heroes — those delightful debunkers at the the National Education Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opposition.

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There is no science here, only the usual debunker's «true - believer» reflex, wanting at all costs to exclude a form of life, not of earth, that has a head and speaks to us in some way.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

This Brit independent, recently shown at SXSW, features three different stories investigated by a paranormal activity debunker, saw an unexpectedly strong reaction at the IFC Center, while also available on home viewing venues.

He's the new dean of the Edgewood College School of Education and self - proclaimed debunker of «any «media» that prints stupid comments from education reformers,» according to the liberal education website At the Chalk Face.

Back at the beginning of his career, customers were paying as little as $ 50 apiece to learn how to «focus» enough to be able to walk over hot coals pain free (a bit of gimmickry that the debunker James Randi tells us has nothing to do with mental preparation and everything to do with the principles of heat conduction).

The debunkers seem limited to criticism of climate science, criticism of science at - large, and obfuscation regarding historical / natural / cyclic variability.

The climate - change debunkers include Richard S. Lindzen, 67, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who claims that human - caused warming is inconsequential, and Michael Crichton, 64, the novelist and moviemaker.

Can not be too careful, with the likes of Mann and Jacobsen prowling about screaming lawsuit defamation at debunkers.

One thing is to be patient, and to persist at least as vigorously as the debunkers.

Our professor is John Cook, the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland and the founder of Skeptical Science, which over the past two years has been an invaluable resource for me, a newbie debunker of deniers.