The Skeptic Zone #639 - 10.January.2021

<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>0:05:25</em> <div><strong>An interview with Adrienne Hill</strong><br /> <br /> Adrienne Hill from Canada tells us about Tourette Syndrome and some of the so-called alternative treatments that have been offered over the years.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://tourette.ca%20">https://tourette.ca</a><br /> <br /> <a href= "https://tourette.ca%20">https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/resource/tourette-ocd/home</a><br /> <br /> Monterey Skepticamp Youtube (at 4:53:10)<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://youtu.be/DktlgzdFUTI&t=17590">https://youtu.be/DktlgzdFUTI</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:22:30</em> <div><strong>Logical Fallacies with Michelle Bijkersma</strong><br /> <br /> This week Michelle looks at the fallacy of <strong>"Affirming the Consequent"</strong>.<br /> <br /> This is when you assume or conclude a cause for a phenomenon based on the phenomenon itself without taking other possibilities into account.<br /> <br /> A Logical Fallacy is an error we can make in reasoning, but it usually crops up when we are discussing or arguing our point of view.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:30:25</em> <div><strong>A Dive into a Trove</strong><br /> <br /> A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers.<br /> This week testing psychic claims from 1950.<br /> <br /> Into the Unknown - Part #2<br /> <br /> <a href= "http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/">http://www.trove.nla.gov.au</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FEF9E7"> <td><