The Skeptic Zone #612 - 5.July.2020

<table border="0" summary="new show" width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:00:00</em> <div><strong>Introduction</strong><br /> Richard Saunders</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:04:07</em> <div><strong>Interview with James Underdown from the CFIIG</strong><br /> <br /> Can you demonstrate paranormal ability? Are you interested in earning $250,000 dollars? The Center for Inquiry Investigations Group (CFIIG) at the Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles offers a $250,000 prize to anyone who can show, under scientific testing conditions, significant evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://cfiig.org/">https://cfiig.org</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:34:31</em> <div><strong>Logical Fallacies. With Michelle Bijkersma</strong><br /> <br /> This week Michelle looks at the <strong>"Relative Privation Fallacy"</strong>.<br /> <br /> This fallacy, also known as "not as bad as", can be seen as a type of red herring or distraction. The fallacy is essentially an argument that a certain issue is not important or does not deserve attention and resources because there are other and more important issues.<br /> <br /> A Logical Fallacy is an error we can make in reasoning, but it usually crops up when we are discussing or arguing our point of view.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#F8F8FF"> <td valign="top"><em>0:41:50</em> <div><strong>Typewriter Time</strong><br /> <br /> A Cook Book with a message.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:44:47</em> <div><strong>The Book of Tim. With Tim Mendham</strong><br /> <br /> What Goes Around - Ghosts and ghouls, sex and magic. And so it goes, the al