Skeptics are those who advocate taking a provisional approach to all claims and carefully evaluating all the evidence before coming to a conclusion. In other words, the very process that The Corbett Report is engaged in every week, right? Well, not according to the self-professed “skeptics,” many of whom are content to skewer others for their logical fallacies yet frequently deploy logical fallacies of their own when “debunking” the “conspiracy theorists” that seem to be popping up everywhere. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we note the hypocrisies of the supposed “skeptics” and embrace the term as our own.

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Documentation

Buy the 2010 Video Archive DVD and support The Corbett Report Time Reference: 00:53

The Conspiracy Skeptic podcast on The Georgia Guidestones Time Reference: 02:33



Randall Munroe of xkcd on confirmation bias and conspiracy Time Reference: 04:06

About Michael Shermer Time Reference: 08:59

Why People Believe Weird Things Time Reference: 09:54

Michael Shermer interviewed by John Stossel about conspiracy theories Time Reference: 17:28

Michael Shermer breaks down 25 fallacies in thinking Time Reference: 24:08

Paranoia Strikes Deep Time Reference: 25:00

Joshua Blakeney on Michael Shermer Time Reference: 36:50

Skeptically Speaking argues that SOPA is an oil company conspiracy to undermine climate science Time Reference: 39:31

Climategate Exposes the Alarmist Machine Time Reference: 43:20

Jon Kay on conspiracy theories Time Reference: 43:58

BBC frets over conspiracy theories on the internet Time Reference: 49:02

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