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Old 11th April 2018, 02:04 AM   #1
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Forum idea

Could we interview people from time to time, like ATS did here?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread976579/pg1

Note the admin message at the bottom of the first post in bold, about "admin note: This is the "real" Dr. Aquino and he is our invited guest and is graciously giving his time to our community, respect and politeness are mandatory. " etc.
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Old 11th April 2018, 04:38 AM   #2
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Interesting idea!
(I would have liked to hear what Dr. Aquino thought of the book Psywar on Cuba: The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-Castro Propaganda, but Oct. 14, 2013 was a long time ago. I'm not really interested in satanism.)
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Old 11th April 2018, 06:29 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by kellyb View Post
Could we interview people from time to time, like ATS did here?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread976579/pg1

Note the admin message at the bottom of the first post in bold, about "admin note: This is the "real" Dr. Aquino and he is our invited guest and is graciously giving his time to our community, respect and politeness are mandatory. " etc.
Out of nosiness, whom did you have in mind and how would you propose we get them to turn up and participate?
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Old 11th April 2018, 07:17 AM   #4
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Kinda like a Reddit AMA? (Not necessarily "anything" though)
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Old 11th April 2018, 08:40 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by bluesjnr View Post
Out of nosiness, whom did you have in mind and how would you propose we get them to turn up and participate?
Off the top of my head, Sam Harris the most.

A skeptic Q & A with Michael Aquino sounds cool, too, honestly.

NDT, of course.

Noam Chomsky.

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Old 13th April 2018, 11:42 AM   #6
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More suggestions:

Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard (look them up, y'all!)

Temple Grandin
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Old 14th June 2018, 02:04 AM   #7
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Sounds like a great idea.

Not sure how possible it would be logistically. How do we go about motivating people to show up to be interviewed?
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Old 3rd July 2018, 04:02 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Roboramma View Post
Sounds like a great idea.

Not sure how possible it would be logistically. How do we go about motivating people to show up to be interviewed?
Email them and ask them. If they've written books or are about to release one, they'll generally be interested.
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Old 3rd July 2018, 04:10 AM   #9
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[as admin] Sounds like a good idea, as ever get it organized and let the mod team know what we can do to help make it happen.
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Old 17th April 2019, 06:13 AM   #10
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Old 17th April 2019, 01:31 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Gingervytes View Post
Embed video
You can do that with YouTube videos by wrapping the YT url in tags like this:

[yt]...url...[/YT <--close bracket

and then it comes out like this:

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Or...

You could just embed the last part, the bit after the 'v=' of the youtube URL in the tags, like this...

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Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post
You can do that with YouTube videos by wrapping the YT url in tags like this:

[yt]...url...[/YT <--close bracket

and then it comes out like this:

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Ignore this post I am quoting. This does not work. To see how it does work see the post that is between my post and the one I am quoting.
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Old 19th April 2019, 01:03 AM   #14
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Ignore this post I am quoting. This does not work. To see how it does work see the post that is between my post and the one I am quoting.
Quite right - both sides have to be capitalised. Dunno how I missed that.
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Old 19th April 2019, 03:05 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post
Quite right - both sides have to be capitalised. Dunno how I missed that.
No, that doesn’t matter. You put the whole URL in, when it only needs the trailing ID, after the “v=“.
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Old 19th August 2019, 08:04 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by kellyb View Post
Off the top of my head, Sam Harris the most.

A skeptic Q & A with Michael Aquino sounds cool, too, honestly.

NDT, of course.

Noam Chomsky.

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Originally Posted by kellyb View Post
More suggestions:

Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard (look them up, y'all!)

Temple Grandin
I have no idea who any of these people are. Why would they be of interest to skeptics?
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Old 30th November 2020, 07:21 PM   #17
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how about the Objectivist society?
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I'd be happy to hear other people opinions. Nice idea.
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This kind of thing has been proposed before, and everybody seems pretty supportive of the idea, but for some reason it just never seems to happen.
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It's the animémosnos y vayan approach ("let's gather courage for you to confront it").

Also the muchos caciques y pocos indios syndrome ("many chieftains and a few ordinary indians").

Where else than a webforum for baby boomers and a bit younger folks to behave as irresponsibly as milennials?
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Bumping this thread, someone want to make a running list of candidates?
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Old 2nd January 2024, 08:30 PM   #22
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Some suggestions:

Susan Gerbic (Guerilla Skeptics of Wikipedia).

Benjamin Radford. (Skeptical author).

Elizabeth Loftus (False Memory expert and author).

Brian Dunning (Skeptoid podcaster).

Dr Edzard Ernst (Academic physician and CAM skeptic).


I could think of a few questions to ask them, but I wouldn't want to be recorded other than in print.

Do we have someone who would be an interviewer? That seems to be an important factor that hasn't been decided.
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There's a few UK Skeptics

Michael Marshall
Mike Hall
Deborah Hyde
Chris French
Stevyn Colgan
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How about Ricky Gervais?
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