Episode 17: Gregg Braden and Data Mining

from Exposing PseudoAstronomy Hosted by Stuart Robbins

In discussing the new-agey claims by Gregg Braden of evidence for consciousness altering the world around us, I also use this as the start of what will be an ongoing series in fallacious ways to argue: In this case, data mining.

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