Comments on: Not Skeptical Enough

By: Jose the Paranormal Skeptic

Jose the Paranormal Skeptic — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:50:00 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly

By: Shawn S.

Shawn S. — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:16:33 +0000

It was done all in fun and for a good cause, as odd their methods may be. It’s important for us to not lose our sense of humor here and start attacking people who are obviously allies. Yes Brian got taken in, as did Michael (for a bit), but they both laughed it off and realized that it was just a joke (and kind of funny… I mean bringing in the dead 6 million dollar man?) and at the expense of psychics. So let’s lighten up. I spend enough time grinding my teeth at night after answering and reading alt med questions on Yahoo answers… I need a good chuckle.

By: oldebabe

oldebabe — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:18:19 +0000

I hear you.

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:40:05 +0000

In my time people were decent. And now just look at the world. It makes me sad.

By: Jose the Paranormal Skeptic

Jose the Paranormal Skeptic — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:45:03 +0000

I’d never heard of Shirley Ghostman. I’ve been watching YouTube vids all morning. I find him pretty funny.

By: W. Scott

W. Scott — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:21:17 +0000

Call me frumpy, but the humor in the “punk” escapes me. To me, the punkers almost always come off as jerks taking advantage of some personality’s good nature. Unfortunately I can forsee the day when one of these uber-pranks has a disasterous outcome. Someone will have a heart attack or result to serious violence out of fear.

Don’t feel bad Brian. As far as I’m concerned you earned a day’s wages. On the character front, I’m betting that you also probably displayed your honesty and earnestness to a bunch of assholes.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:16:26 +0000

So they lie on their contracts. Has anyone sued them?

By: doctoratlantis

doctoratlantis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:16:08 +0000

Great job admitting you got tricked. Honesty is so important for skeptics. (And so is a good sense of humor.)

I hope in the end this is (a) funny to me and (b) funny to you. (Honestly, your descriptions amused me greatly – but I didn’t want to make you feel bad.)

By: Podblack Blog

Podblack Blog — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:53:55 +0000

UPDATE – Message from Michael Shermer on Twitter:

Ah, Brian Dunning just got a note from the producer of the Marc Wootton show saying that the point is to make psychics look like idiots……and that in fact the producers are skeptics in support of our work. Shirley Ghostman is punking psychics, not skeptics. Good to know……but now I’m mad at myself for not realizing who was punking whom. Alas, I think I need to apply my own philosophy of using humor here.So, Wootton/Little Duke Productions, if you’re all skeptics making fun of TV psychics…GO FOR IT because if anyone needs punking it’s them!

By: Max

Max — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:14:21 +0000

I’m sure Marc Edward would be proud.