{"id":235,"date":"2009-08-03T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-08-03T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T14:37:16","slug":"099-skepticism-101-the-australian-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"099 &#8211; Skepticism 101 &#8211; The Australian Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of the word sceptic \/ skeptic.  It is used in many contexts &#8211; and there is a worldwide movement of people who identify themselves as &#8220;skeptics&#8221;.  What does that entail?  Who is a skeptic?  What&#8217;s the difference, if any, between being a sceptic and being a skeptic?  How does one become a skeptic, and how is it useful?<\/p>\n<p>I visited a talk presented by the Australian Skeptics and after it had finished, I talked to Dr Rachael Dunlop, Dave the Happy Singer, and Richard Saunders &#8211; all well known within the Australian Skeptics movement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM099-Skepticism101.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of the word sceptic \/ skeptic. It is used in many contexts &#8211; and there is a worldwide movement of people who identify themselves as &#8220;skeptics&#8221;. What does that entail? Who is a skeptic? What&#8217;s the difference, if any, between being a sceptic and being a skeptic? How does one become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,18,20],"tags":[62,365,369,225,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}