The Skeptic Zone #643 - 7.February.2021

<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>0:03:44</em> <div><strong>Test Your E.S.P.</strong><br /> <br /> From 1977 comes this test from 'The Australian Women's Weekly'.<br /> <br /> How do you rate your psychic abilities? Have you ever experienced astral travel, levitation, mental telepathy . . . or seen a ghost?<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/5845338">https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/5845338</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:19:03</em> <div><strong>Logical Fallacies with Michelle Bijkersma</strong><br /> <br /> This week Michelle looks at <strong>"The Appeal to Common Sense"</strong>.<br /> <br /> The ‘Appeal to Common Sense’ is a specific version of ‘Alleged Certainty’. It occurs when someone simply asserts their conclusion as obvious and a fact, however, it may not necessarily be so.<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>0:28:48</em> <div><strong>The Book of Tim with Tim Mendham</strong><br /> <br /> Another reading from the pages of 'The Skeptic' from Australian Skeptics Inc.<br /> This week Tim looks at magicians, ethics, names, laws and more.<br /> <a href="https://www.skeptics.com.au/"><br /> https://www.skeptics.com.au</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr align="center" size="1" width="75%" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><em>0:36:27</em> <div><strong>A Dive into a Trove</strong><br /> <br /> A wander through the decades of digitised Au