Michael Shermer

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4,120 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The hypothesis is not true until proven otherwise.
You run the experiment, the randomized controlled trial, and so on and so forth.
You get to the 0.05 or 0.01 level of statistical significance.
You go, okay, I think we have a real effect and not.
Sometimes that holds up and it's replicated.
Sometimes it's not.
Maybe you manipulated the stats or whatever.
In other words, there's a method, of course, to get there.
What would be the method for that to say, OK, something weird is happening in our nuclear sites and it's predictable and here it's repeatable and you can see it versus some weird stuff is happening.
Let's look further.
OK, but then what?
I think this is happening far more frequently than if you were to like stand in random locations, you know, all over the globe.
Well, but not random because you got to be where there's there's a lot of people looking up.
They're interested.
There's observers.
Of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, while being hyper vigilant about what's going on, controlling for all of the other variables.
Yeah, so here's an example.
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