Wet Blanket Skeptics Podcast Harrison & Jake

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about the illusion of explanatory depth, optimism bias, Alex Jones, Tinder, bitcoin, socialism, capitalism, economics, the war against the media, futurism, and teleportation.
 
References:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~rlawson/PDF_Files/L-M&C-2006.pdf
https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw-bicycle-from-memory-and-renders-results/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-infowars/apple-youtube-and-others-drop-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-idUSKBN1KR0MZ
https://gizmodo.com/woman-tricks-dozens-of-men-on-tinder-into-showing-up-fo-1828467914
https://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/517915510/americas-complacent-class-how-self-segregation-is-leading-to-stagnation

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about recording in-person, the sunk cost fallacy, Richard Spencer, the election results, the Pope, zipper merging, sacred cows, and lessons learned.
References:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-important-everybody-s-going-to-save-something-now-save
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/07/the-beauty-of-zipper-merging-or-why-you-should-drive-ruder/

Harrison’s recommended podcasts:
http://pennsundayschool.com/

Skepticism: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ and http://ohnopodcast.com/

Rationality: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/
Economics: http://www.econtalk.org/
Politics: http://the-e-r-podcast.foreignpolicy.com/

In this week's podcast, Harrison, Jake and Joe talk about the election results, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, diabetes, the Bermuda Triangle, space travel, and audio issues.
References:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/07/tuesday-shouldnt-change-the-narrative/
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/myths/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccdfzq2M1Ec
https://www.facebook.com/officialdanagould/posts/947789788661093
http://skepdic.com/bermuda.html
http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/12/trans-teen-suicide-spike-post-election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/2016-election-results/us-presidential-race/

In this week's podcast, Harrison and Jake talk about voting, TCM, meteorology, sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, addiction, food documentaries, DNA, and the Bermuda triangle.
References:
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-scientists-great-barrier-reef.html#nRlv
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/great-barrier-reef-severe-stress-not-dead-yet
http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar-really-make-children-hyper/
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/high-fructose-corn-syrup/
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-sweetener-wars-hfcs-strikes-back/
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/high-fructose-corn-syrup-addictive-myth/
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-the-movie-fed-up-make-sense/
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4088
http://azdailysun.com/news/national/human-dna-tied-mostly-to-single-exodus-from-africa-long/article_4dd9c676-bf0c-52c0-8a79-8249722ef66d.htm

In this week's podcast, Harrison, Jake, and Joe talk about the show’s final episodes, Katie May, chiropractic, unfriending on social media, scientism, Skepchick, Rebecca Watson, elevatorgate, rape accusations, Exxon, the Great Barrier Reef, and devil’s milk.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TpRfDdyU0
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/10/20/mystery-solved-chiropractic-manipulation-of-the-neck-did-cause-katie-mays-death-from-stroke/
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/9-forensic-science
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
http://skepchick.org/
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1004-tavris-what-is-rape-20151004-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMi0UtvTIc
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/exxon-decides-to-fight-new-york-s-climate-change-probe
http://www.outsideonline.com/2112086/obituary-great-barrier-reef-25-million-bc-2016
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/devils-milk-could-be-the-killer-ingredient-in-war-on-superbugs-20161014-gs29l5.html

In this week's podcast, Harrison, Jake, and Joe talk about racism, heroin, vaccine-preventable diseases, chiropractic, scientism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kurt Vonnegut, climate change, and time crystals.
References:
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/what-are-immediate-short-term-effects-heroin-use
http://www.narconon.org/drug-abuse/heroin/organs.html
http://time.com/27308/4-diseases-making-a-comeback-thanks-to-anti-vaxxers/
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/586
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0393082067
http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2013/08/steven-pinker-embraces-scientism-bad.html
https://gradycarter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/20120831-115749.jpg
http://www.popsci.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-just-proposed-government-that-doesnt-work
http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/9119/images/notripevpyr.jpg
http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/in-1988-kurt-vonnegut-gives-seven-pieces-advice-to-people-living-in-2088.html
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/400-ppm-carbon-dioxide-spiral-20748
http://azdailysun.com/news/national/greenland-ice-loss-trillion-pounds-bigger-than-thought/article_325429f7-fc69-589f-a7ab-f28c6aca2e56.html
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/impossible-time-crystals-may-actually-be-real-say-physicists
http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/