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Download or read book Skeptic Multimedia written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: The Skeptic's Dictionary, Snopes.com, MythBusters, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Skeptical Inquirer, What's The Harm?, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, Skepticality, Free Inquiry, The Science of Good and Evil, Skeptoid, The Truth About Uri Geller, The Psychology of the Psychic, The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer, The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, The Faith Healers, The Power of Belief, Secrets of the Super Psychics, Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions, Point of Inquiry, The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture, Secrets of the Psychics, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, The Straight Dope, QuackCast, The Space Gods Revealed. Excerpt: MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series is screened by numerous international broadcasters, including Discovery Channel Australia, Discovery Channel Latin America, Discovery Channel Canada, Quest and the Discovery Channel in the UK. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos and news stories. Filming is based in the city of San Francisco, California, though some elements of production are done in Artarmon, Australia. Planning and some experimentation takes place at Hyneman's workshops in the city of San Francisco; experiments requiring more space or special accommodations are filmed on location, typically around the San Francisco Bay Area and other Northern California...