Empiricism, the Scientific Method - and research

In this video I explain what flat earthers believe, why they believe it, and why I think scientists should take flat earthers more seriously.The CN... (2021)

For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific underst... (2022)

I recently got an email from an anthropologist commenting on a new report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The topic of that… ...i... (2020)

Our eyes are special detectors. They allow us to register information not only from across the room but from across the universe. Without vision, t... (2020)

LastWeekTonight Published on May 8, 2016 John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as sc... (2018)