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Media and Misinformation
Switch on the TV and you're more likely to find a program on ESP than on astronomy. Why the media obsession with pseudoscience? Misinformation and the media in this hour of Science Friday, live from the first World Skeptics Congress in Buffalo, New York.
Guests:
Paul Kurtz
Chairman
The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the Paranormal
Buffalo, New York
John Paulos
Professor of Mathematics
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Milton Rosenberg
Professor of Social Psychology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Phillip Adams
Broadcast Journalist
Sydney, Australia
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