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Sun, Oct 28 2012 11:48:06

Live-Tweeting CSICon 2012

  1. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    Taking a rest on my 10 hour road trip to #CSICON. I am going to be giving every talk a standing ovation, because sitting all day feels awful
    Wed, Oct 24 2012 11:26:29
  2. Arriving in Nashville, my colleague Sara Mayhew and I found a not-so-skeptical part of Nashville...
  3. @saramayhew and I are doing our best to be skeptical here in Nashville #CSICON http://pic.twitter.com/jKmweRV8
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
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    Thu, Oct 25 2012 10:03:02
  4. Me and @sci_phile Wednesday night at #csicon @ Sheraton Music City Hotel instagr.am/p/RStR9Rs1d-/
    Sara E. Mayhew@saramayhew
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    Sat, Oct 27 2012 09:23:50
  5. The conferences official began with a live recording of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe:
  6. At #CSICON live @SkepticsGuide recording! I'm close enough to get hit with Steve Novella's spittle! #skepticwin http://pic.twitter.com/MnYFASbM
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
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    Thu, Oct 25 2012 17:56:03
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    Tim Farley@krelnik
    #csicon @RealJoeNickell chokes up quoting his friend Robert Baker. "There are no haunted houses, just haunted people." bit.ly/rqJgv
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 10:32:40
  8. The first panel was a discussion of belief with Ray Hyman, Indre Viskontas, Elizabeth Loftus and others:
  9. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    "Behaviorists were the tea party of the early days of psychology"--Ray Hyman #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:39:48
  10. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    "New information is believed to be true by default. Questioning the veracity of the info comes later, or, many times, not at all." #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:53:21
  11. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    "To convince someone that ESP doesn't exist, ask what could prove to you that it does. If you answer 'nothing,' change tactics." #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:00:39
  12. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    Remember, the outrage we feel when our sacred beliefs are challenged is exactly how others feel when we argue the skeptical position #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:12:16
  13. Loftus points out how the "repressed memory" phenomenon has long been debunked by psychological research:
  14. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    There is no credible evidence that horrible trauma can be temporarily sequestered in the subconscious, to be illuminated by therapy. #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:17:38
  15. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    You'd be surprised how easy it is to plant a false memory that someone got lost in the mall as a child (25%) or nearly drowned (33%) #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:25:34
  16. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    The techniques used to plant false memories in experiments are exactly the techniques routinely used in "repressed memory" therapy #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:28:32
  17. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    Confounding the proponents of "repressed memories," psychologists have been able to implant *impossible* memories in experiment #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:36:09
  18. Indre Viskontas then spoke about some of the neurology of belief:
  19. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    I have now been primed to see a seaslug ganglion forever as a penis/femur, in great jeans, yep. #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:50:18
  20. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    I'm not sure if @indrevis is even using a mic. She's an opera singer, and projecting memory science into my face nearly 100 ft away #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:53:39
  21. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    Want to remember what the hippocampus does? (spatial navigation, etc) Ask: "What helps you get around campus?" You're welcome #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 13:02:00
  22. Sci_Phile
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
    "Remembering is more like imagining than replaying the past"--@indrevis #CSICON
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 13:09:26
  23. The next talk I attend was by Sara Mayhew. She discussed how a good narrative can always incorporate good science and critical thinking.
  24. The lovely @saramayhew is incepting an idea about inception in the movie Inception. My brain hurts. #meta http://pic.twitter.com/vYPBXCWE
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
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    Fri, Oct 26 2012 15:36:27
  25. Fun fact: @saramayhew hand-drew all her slides. Talented lady, mind still hurts from trying to incept Inception #CSICON http://pic.twitter.com/Psxpuuzh
    Kyle Hill@Sci_Phile
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    Fri, Oct 26 2012 15:43:17

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