The Skeptic Zone #608 - 7.June.2020

<table border="0" summary="new show" width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:00:00</em> <div><strong>Introduction</strong><br /> Richard Saunders</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:04:50</em> <div><strong>Zapping Quack Machines</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Loretta Marron</strong>, aka The Jellybean Lady, tells us about her long campaign to expose medical zapping machines. These devices claim to scan your body with magical energy and zap parasites and viruses.<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://www.scienceinmedicine.org.au/">https://www.scienceinmedicine.org.au</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:18:43</em> <div><strong>Psychic Sting Update</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Susan Gerbic</strong> returns with an update to the story we posted last week. Now the New Zealand media are interested in the psychic who claimed to have a preventative for COVID-19.<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/05-06-2020/nz-psychic-healer-promotes-dietary-supplement-as-covid-19-preventative/"> https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/05-06-2020/nz-psychic-healer-promotes-dietary-supplement-as-covid-19-preventative/</a><br /> <br /> <a href= "https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-thomas-john-experience-buckle-up-hes-back/"> https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-thomas-john-experience-buckle-up-hes-back/</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:26:41</em> <div><strong>Logical Fallacies. With Michelle Bijkersma</strong><br /> <br /> This week Michelle looks at <strong>"The False Equivalence Fallacy"</strong>.<br /> <br /> This is when it is argued that two different things or points of view, that may have only passing or superficial similarities, are in fact logically equivalent.<br /> <br /> A Logical Fallacy is an error we can make in reasoning, but it usua