Art of Con Games Part 2
The art of the con is as old as civilization, employing the skills of deception, misdirection, and the psychology of human greed and the desire to get something for nothing. In this episode Shermer...
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The art of the con is as old as civilization, employing the skills of deception, misdirection, and the psychology of human greed and the desire to get something for nothing. In this episode Shermer...
View ArticleThe Art of the Con
How we can avoid falling prey to con men such as Bernard Madoff On a Los Angeles street corner in 2000, I was the “inside man” in a classic con game called the pigeon drop. A magician named Dan Harlan...
View ArticleThe Baloney Detection Kit (on RDF TV)
With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, lays out a...
View ArticleThe Eternally Boring Hereafter
A review of Clint Eastwood’s film Hereafter /// ATTENTION! Spoiler Alert! /// After a string of highly successful and critically acclaimed films by Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino,...
View ArticleShermer Spam Scammers Scam
Every week I receive invitations to speak at various venues around the world. On March 15, 2011, I received the following invitation to speak in London. As I was running out the door to go on my...
View ArticleBurning Man
Can burn patients really be healed from a distance by phone? A couple of weeks ago I was at a meeting with television producers at a Pasadena, California hotel when I ran into a man named Richard...
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