Listeners Have a Say
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Why I Support Skeptoid
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| You're listening to Skeptoid. | |
| I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid. | |
| Shut up, you! | |
| My name is Larry Kuhn, and I'm an IT director at the University of California, Irvine, as well as a sports writer covering NBA basketball for sites such as ESPN.com. | |
| I know Brian Dunning personally, but this message would be the same even if I didn't. | |
| I consider myself a skeptic, which means I'm always looking for evidence. | |
| I'm looking for logic and critical thinking, and I'm looking for the facts. | |
| Skeptoid provides all of this on a weekly basis, covering controversial topics in a rational, coherent, and entertaining manner, always separating what's real from what isn't. | |
| I've been a weekly listener for years, and I'm a supporter. | |
| As skeptics, it's our duty to support programming like Skeptoid to ensure that it remains available and reaches as many people as possible. | |
| As Brian says, you're listening to Skeptoid, a listener-supported program. | |
| So what are you waiting for? | |
| Support it. | |
| My name is Dave, and I live in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and I run a small business out of my home. | |
| I listen to over 20 hours a week podcasting, and one of my favorite podcasts is Skeptoid. | |
| Skeptoid offers a good starting point for critical analysis on a wide variety of subjects. | |
| Some of my favorite subjects that Skeptoid has covered include the pseudoscientific health fads like homeopathy and the gluten-free movement, as well as some of the conspiracy theory episodes like water fluoridation and the Building 7 collapse. | |
| I like to support Skeptoid by setting up a recurring monthly PayPal payment. | |
| The nature of human psychology, like it or not, is that we can often outthink ourselves, fool ourselves, as it were. | |
| We are products of our environment and our upbringing. | |
| Only when we learn to challenge ourselves and accept that our perspective is jaded, do we begin to develop the discipline to think beyond what we accept at first glance? | |
| The skeptic's view is what develops to dig deeper, think through options and proof, apply logic, and follow a process to help us keep from fooling ourselves. | |
| This is the value that Brian Dunning brings with the Skeptoid podcast. | |
| It's simple. | |
| It makes me think. | |
| Hi, my name is Jason and I live in Michigan. | |
| I support Skeptoid mainly for three reasons. | |
| First, it's a fun and quick way to learn about a topic I usually wouldn't otherwise know anything about. | |
| It saves me the time of having to track down the facts buried in the interwebs. | |
| I also listen to Skeptoid because it is one of the few places I can get a scientific view of something that usually is only covered in a non-science-based way. | |
| Finally, I support Skeptoid because Big Pharma, or wait, Big Petroleum, Misanto, I forget who pays me now. | |
| By the way, if you think the last reason is at all true, you really need to listen to a lot more Skeptoid. | |
| Questionable Adam here from HeardMentalityPodcast.com, contacting you from the year 2074 using Deepak Chopra's Cosmic Consciousness Time Traveling Fax Machine. | |
| When I'm feeling insufficiently skeptical, I jump straight onto Skeptoid.com to boost my dopamine, serotonin, and critical thinking levels. | |
| Using this community resource for the last 70 years, I've been able to help others overcome addictions to homeopathy. | |
| Producing a quality podcast each week is a huge job, a full-time job, and it needs to be supported. | |
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Funding the Full-Time Job
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| For just a few dollars a month via Set and Forget PayPal donations on Brian's site, you can help support edutainment to assist myself and others. | |
| I do. | |
| You should too. | |
| I must run! | |
| Emperor Deepak has detected my movements. | |
| I'll contact you soon. | |
| If you enjoy the Skeptoid podcast and you think it's important for others to hear, please keep in mind it is entirely dependent upon listener support. | |
| The show and the website are free of advertisements, and it's a tax-deductible public charity. | |
| This is only because almost enough of you support the show with recurring monthly micropayments, which I need to keep it going. | |
| If you're not already a supporter, please come to skeptoid.com and click on support skeptoid. | |
| A few clicks in less than a minute, and you're done. | |
| Thanks for listening. | |