New England Skeptical Society Quotes

“Podcast #65”

“Jay Novella: What logical fallacy is "Oh yeah?!"”

“Perry DeAngelis: All ornithologists are misanthropes.”

“Perry DeAngelis: And remember, Chi spelled backward is crap.”

“Robert Novella: We might be outcasts but we're not misinformed.”

“Perry DeAngelis: Astrology is as vacuous as the space it worships.”

“Perry DeAngelis: Thank god my skepticism has saved me from miracles.”

“Perry DeAngelis:Any monkey worth his salt would give any bird a beak-flip.”

“Jay Novella: If aromatherapy really worked then my own farts would kill me.”

“Evan Bernstein: What did we learn here? Sometimes you go with your gut. Except when you don't.”

“The amount of years that she will live longer than us because of her diet is directly proportional to the horror of her life.”

“Wikipedia: New England Skeptical Society”

“Steven Novella, MD: You can't reason someone out of an opinion they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.”

“Rebecca Watson :What's unique about this is that he's combining 2 balls of crap together to make one huge ball of crap.”

“Steven Novella, MD: This is pure pseudoscience. This is slick marketing. And you can tell your mommy and daddy that I said so.”

“"SGUFans.net" Information on episodes 41, 43, 53, 56, 57, 59, 65, 66, 67, & 71 retrieved 2009-10-07.”

“Rebecca Watson:I won't mate with any of the true believers.”

“Steven Novella, MD: Science does not make statements about proof or disproof. Rather, science is a constantly evolving model or reality that builds upon statements such as — this model of reality makes these predictions, that have either been confirmed or refuted, etc. We say things are probable or likely to be true in science if the predictions that flow from them have been confirmed. We say things are likely to be untrue if they make predictions that turned out to be false. We can further say that certain things are impossible if they create a logical contradiction.
If you make a claim, however, that does not make any predictions that can be either confirmed or falsified, then science can say nothing about it. That is agnosticism. That is the difference. It can't say whether or not the "unfalsifiable hypothesis" is true, it cannot make any statements about probability, it cannot say anything — except that it makes no testable predictions. That's it. Anything else is philosophy, ideology, or wishful thinking.”