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channels through april and on their on demand service i encourage you to check it out it is based on the 2013 book o f the same name by lawrence wright which detailed many abuses that have gone on in the church both the book and the documentary feature damning testimony by many ex members of the church some of whom had very high ranking positions the church itself needless to say is not amused in typical fashion it has waged a pr war against the film starting with an expensive full page ad in the new york times on january 16 it has continued its assault with a series of articles printed in their own freedom magazine the material there largely consists of a series of ad hominem attacks on the former scientologists interviewed in the film but how is the church expecting any of this additional material to be seen by the general public freedom magazine is not well known outside church circles and the new york times ad has not repeated who is going to bother to go to this obscure website to read these attacks the answer is in online advertising how the church is using online ads may have some interesting lessons for skeptics continue reading like this post share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on flattr opens in new window flattr like loading this entry was posted in social media web and tagged adwords google outreach seo twitter on march 30 2015 by tim farley i defended dr oz on wikipedia and you should too dr oz at servicenation 2008 by david berkowitz licensed cc by 2 0 via wikipedia in my how to series on becoming a wikipedia editor i highly recommend spending time patrolling for vandalism using a watch list it s good practice with the software and it helps you build up a positive editing history vandalism on wikipedia is unfortunately constant a side effect of their radically open editing policy this policy allows anyone to anonymously edit most articles logged only by ip address because skeptical topics are often controversial in some circles at least they can spark strong responses including sometimes vandalism as a result if you re looking for vandalism to fix skeptic relevant articles often provide plenty of ammunition indeed over my career as a wikipedia editor i ve removed the word idiot from australian science communicator dr karl s biography undone claims that indian skeptic prabir ghosh is a fake doctor and excised antisemitic slurs from the biography of professor michael barkun defending everyone equally but i don t reserve my vandalism patrols just for people i consider allies i ve also removed the word douchebag from the biography of bart sibrel famed for being hit by buzz aldrin i ve cut out some rude edits regarding l ron hubbard i ve even removed some creative writing on larry king s biography that verges into science fiction because of his current fame dr oz has been a repeated target for attacks i ve removed an accusation that he is a bad surgeon undone some veiled anti muslim sentiment from his article and removed weasel words about his training i ve even erased the phrase quack doctor from his biography why defend the bad guys some skeptics might wonder why bother with this folks like dr oz are a detriment to society don t they deserve to take some lumps occasionally maybe so but wikipedia is absolutely the wrong venue for this skeptics already get wrongly accused of many crimes on wikipedia this occurs in part because wikipedia s rules and administration are admittedly pro science so when we simply enforce the rules we are perceived as having a pro skeptic bias as a result we need to do everything we can to provide evidence that we are not in fact biased applying the rules such as the rules on vandalism to biographies equally to friend and foe is a great way to accomplish this removing vandalism is easy once you know how and it demonstrates our lack of bias clearly and unambiguously it is also a good way to help maintain wikipedia s excellent record for quickly removing vandalism bottom line skeptics should not tolerate name calling and bias on wikipedia whether it is for us or against us and the editing history will back us up when we point this out like this post share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on flattr opens in new window flattr like loading this entry was posted in skeptic activism wikipedia and tagged bart sibrel dr oz guerrilla skepticism vandalism wikipedia on march 23 2015 by tim farley online tools are great until they disappear closed sign by james alan licensed under cc by sa 3 0 via wikipedia facebook announced last week that the service friendfeed would be shut down in april i was a friendfeed user i even used to have a link to it here on the skeptic history page for those who wanted to see the daily history posts using that service but it s been increasingly less useful as it has been supplanted by newer services like twitter and facebook itself as we use online tools to achieve specific goals we must be mindful that they do disappear like this it s always wise to have a good idea what benefit you are getting from which tools and which alternatives are available should one disappear let s take a moment to consider a few tools that have disappeared recently why that happens and some good strategies for might replacing them continue reading like this post share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on flattr opens in new window flattr like loading this entry was posted in tools web and tagged fourmatch friendfeed izitru media standards trust open source trooclick truthmarket unsourced org wikiscanner wikitrust wikiwatchdog on march 16 2015 by tim farley deepak chopra s twitter trolling continues deepak chopra is still trolling people on twitter it seems on february 10th professor brian cox appeared on conan and related a familiar story about chopra s behavior watch the short clip as you may recall last may i documented deepak chopra s habit of trolling well known skeptics and atheists on twitter he repeatedly taunts them tweets links at them and makes snide or insulting remarks among the things that make the behavior so blatant is chopra includes daniel dennett and jerry coyne in his taunts dennett very rarely converses with anyone on twitter and never with chopra coyne has specifically stated on his blog that he never converses on twitter at all he just uses it to as an alternate blog feed chopra must know this one can only conclude his one sided conversations are an elaborate show for his own followers but some people do respond to chopra including brian cox as seen in the clip their previous twitter exchanges have been documented by jerry coyne on more than one occasion incidentally the angry tweet cox mentions in the clip appears to have been deleted by chopra he does that a bit too in my earlier post i document one tweet to me that he deleted tracking chopra s deleted tweets might be an interesting skeptic project after the program aired this bizarre exchange occurred where is profbriancox teamcoco pic twitter com 28pb6qfusv deepak chopra deepakchopra february 12 2015 what the holy jesus is this rt deepakchopra where is profbriancox teamcoco pic twitter com fvkeudeqh0 dr adam rutherford adamrutherford february 12 2015 adamrutherford deepakchopra teamcoco i have no idea but i m having it made into wallpaper for my under stairs bathroom brian cox profbriancox february 12 2015 like this post share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on flattr opens in new window flattr like loading this entry was posted in bad behavior social media and tagged brian cox conan deepak chopra troll twitter on march 2 2015 by tim farley google promoting trusted health answers in knowledge graph in 2012 google introduced a feature to their search engine they call knowledge graph the company has compiled millions of facts into a database and offers them up on the right hand side of search engine result pages in a handy box the graph is also the source of many of the answers you get in the voice response versions of google such as in google s smartphone apps the answers come from many sources including the cia world factbook and wikipedia at the time this was launched i wrote how skeptic efforts editing wikipedia were paying off in a new way exposing the public to skeptics and skeptical topics in these knowledge graph boxes on february 10 google announced an enhancement to this product adding a whole new class of data answers to medical questions as they explained in their introductory blog post we worked with a team of medical doctors led by our own dr kapil parakh m d mph ph d to carefully compile curate and review this information all of the gathered facts represent real life clinical knowledge from these doctors and high quality medical sources across the web and the information has been checked by medical doctors at google and the mayo clinic for accuracy this has a great potential to combat the infamous dr google syndrome this is a popular term for the tendency of incorrect or even pseudoscientific information by virtue of its prominence in the search engine misleading the public who can forget the 2007 sound byte from the oprah winfrey show when jenny mccarthy stated the university of google is where i got my degree from how many others are out there learning incorrect info from bogus websites pushed up into the google results via seo techniques many different studies have shown that search engine users rarely move beyond the first page of results thus the placement of these knowledge graph results prominently on the first page of results might have a good effect it remains to be seen whether these knowledge graph boxes will help draw attention from potentially dangerous organic search results you can recognize the new additions because they typically appear in boxes offering separate tabs on general info symptoms and treatments they also always contain advice to consult a medical doctor for advice see diagram i searched several medical topics and was pleased that i could not find any in which alternative medicine had been included for instance the lower back pain topic shown here does not offer acupuncture or chiropractic as an option this is a good sign but skeptics should keep an eye on this feature i m sure the alternative medicine community will eventually pressure google to include their nonsense if you do notice spurious alternative medical information appearing in one of these results you can click the word feedback at lower right the box will highlight and show a prompt to click on the error you can then select which piece of information is incorrect you will be prompted to explain why you think it is wrong like this post share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on flattr opens in new window flattr like loading this entry was posted in web and tagged alternative medicine google knowledge graph on february 26 2015 by tim farley herbal industry attempts to astro turf new york s a g photo of supplements by sage ross distributed under a cc by sa 3 0 license on february 3 the attorney general of the state of new york eric schneiderman announced his office had taken action against several major retailers regarding some herbal remedies sold in their stores the state s investigators found that about 80 of the products contained none of the active ingredients on the label further some products contained allergens or other substances not listed on the label the testing was done using a dna barcoding technique a cease and desist order was issued requiring these products to be removed from shelves in the state of new york skeptics were generally supportive of this action of course we ve long argued that many herbal supplements have poor evidence of efficacy and are poorly regulated the supplement industry needless to say is not happy they have attempted to rally opposition to this move and to get supporters of herbal supplements to call write and tweet the attorney general about this issue only the attorney general s office knows how many letters or phone calls were generated but twitter posts are by default public this means we can peek at their efforts to lobby on this issue let s do that and see how it is going continue reading like this post share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on flattr opens in new window flattr like loading this entry was posted in bad behavior skeptic activism social media and tagged astroturfing legislation new york political regulation sock puppets twitter on february 23 2015 by tim farley verifying digital photo authenticity with izitru the popular photo manipulation software photoshop celebrated its 25th birthday this week photoshop and other tools like it have made it incredibly easy to manipulate digital photos that in turn makes it easier to create photographic hoaxes including ghosts cryptids ufos and other targets of skeptical investigations it is not surprising that photo hoaxes are quite common these days and are constantly passed around on social media thus skeptics need good tools for debunking them one such tool is izitru continue reading like this post share it share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on flattr opens in new window flattr like loading this entry was posted in best practice tools web and tagged cryptid fourmatch ghost hoaxes izitru photos ufo virality on february 20 2015 by tim farley there are times you should not use donotlink i think it is a good time to remind everyone of the proper context for using different tools to avoid algorithmically boosting bad content this is important for all skeptics because the very act of linking to something you are debunking can make it more visible on platforms like facebook and google one of several tools for this purpose is donotlink there was a minor kerfuffle last week in which the food babe website unsuccessfully attempted to block incoming links using donotlink that raised the potential that skeptic reliance on that service might have disadvantages i ve also noticed that in addition to many people on social media who 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