While the research results of the 12 year old Global Consciousness Project have withstood serious skeptical examination from researchers who’ve dug into the millions of test results collected on the publicly available website, skepticism persists.

But according to Alex Tsakiris, host of the Skpetiko science podcast, dialog between controversial science researchers and their doubters is a good for science, “it’s easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to unconventional science – that’s what makes it unconventional – but skeptics need to look deeper… critical thinking demands we’re sometimes critical of our own cherished beliefs.”

Tsakiris continued: “We’ve helped initiate a collaboration on the Global Consciousness Research Project work of Dr. Roger Nelson, and a skeptical researcher from the University of London named Dr. Chris French.  That’s a step in the right direction.  Many skeptics bemoan the lack of interest in science education, but when presented with the chance to explore topics like the Global Consciousness Project, that clearly have great fascination to the public, they shy away.  This is unfortunate. Science is a method, it’s not a position.  There are no unscientific topics, just unscientific methods.”

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Alex Tsakiris: Welcome to Skeptiko, where we explore controversial science with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics. I’m your host, Alex Tsakiris, and on this episode of Skeptiko I wanted to do a little bit of an update.

I’ve received several e-mails from folks saying, hey, what’s going on with this project, what’s going on with that project? And I realized that over the last couple years I have started several initiatives and maybe not updated everyone as well as I could as to what’s going on. So this and a couple episodes after this will be quick little updates, if you will, of some of the things that are going on here at Skeptiko. And there will be a call for you to maybe get involved if you can. There’s a couple of areas where we could really use some help.

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Global Consciousness Project Welcomes Collaboration With Skeptics | Skeptiko – Science at the Tipping Point

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Beneath news of political campaigns, bills in Congress and the latest wars is a deep politics that is going largely uncovered: first, because its participants try to keep it secret and second, because Resources for in-depth reporting have been sharply cut back.    

Amateurish blogs, though raising issues the established media doesn’t, can’t be a substitute for serious journalism. This site is an attempt to fill the gaps in in-depth coverage. I appeal to readers to generously support it.

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Mac Tonnies, Paul Kimball, and Nick Redfern, 2006.

On Sunday, November 1st, Paul Kimball and Nick Redfern joined me to celebrate the life of our friend Mac Tonnies, who was found dead in his Kansas City apartment on October 22nd, apparently of natural causes.

The sense of great loss was still with us as we discussed Mac’s sharp intellect, great sense of humor and his effect on us and others interested in the fields of UFO study, forteanism, and futurism. He was also a damn good science fiction writer. His ideas on the UFO subject were refreshingly non-dogmatic and evinced a refusal to toe the extraterrestrial party-line.

Mac had so much more to give, but we’ll have to be content with his memory, internet output and published writings and his forthcoming book on his Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis, due out in the spring. We hope this program was a fitting memorial to our late, dear friend.

The program begins and ends with recordings of Mac reading from the draft of his new book. For other Radio Misterioso interviews featuring Mac Tonnies, look here and here.

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If you read the description over at top left of the page there, this show is supposed to alternate interviews with “weird music and audio.” Here’s a great example.

Straight from his excellent blog Music For Maniacs, “Mr. Fab” joined us for two solid hours of musical strangeness on October 25th. Notable tracks played included a reggae song about Apollo 11, four or five old UFO drop-in songs (think “The Flying Saucer” by Buchanan and Goodman), sounds from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, elephants playing xyolphones and theremins, a mashup of the Muppets and the Stray Cats, Sad Kermit, and music from L. Ron Hubbard.

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Peter Levenda, author of the acclaimed “Sinister Forces” Trilogy and “Unholy Alliance: A History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult” returns to Red Ice Radio after two years to talk about some his latest work. He has released three books since we last talked: “The Mao of Business: Guerrilla Trade Techniques for the New China”, “Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the Art of Spiritual Transformation” and his latest one is on the Masons called The Secret Temple: Masons, Mysteries, and the Founding of America”. Topics Discussed: China, Development, Western Money, Alchemy, The Big Dipper, The North Star, 7 Stages of Alchemical Process, Chinese Zodiac, Ladder of Seven Stars, Ezekiel, Merkabah, Daoism, Taoism, Liuzhou, Religion, Watching the Stars, Falun Gong, Tibet, Libraries, Books, Nazism, Language, Cantonese, Mandarin, Could the Arm of the Occult Forces be reaching to Tibet though to China, Chinese Communism Revolution, Philosophy of Communism, George Soros comment on China and much more. Joins us for our second hour with Peter Levenda as we’re going to talk about Masonry, their rituals, the origins and also about the many denominations that exists, the Knights Templar, the Illuminati and the Catholic Connection. We also discuss the initiation ritual, what happens to you when you go through a initiation ritual. What role does trauma play into this and can we view it as a form of mind control or at least, more mildly put, the alteration of consciousness? We talk about the need for people to belong to organizations and the problem of secrecy. We discuss secret societies and their occult rituals. We talk about the building of Solomon’s temple, religion, the Jewish roots of masonry. We also talk about the CIA, Yale, Skull and Bones, military Lodges, the Manchurian candidate, the elite and leaders that are above the Law.

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We have author and researcher Patrick Heron with us from Ireland. He join us to discuss his two most recent books, “The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse” and “The Return of the Antichrist and the New World Order”. We discuss bible prophecy, the end times and the Nephilim. Topics Discussed: Temple of Apollo, the Construction of the Pyramids, Ancient Irish Folk Lore, New Grange, Winter Solstice, End of the World, Astronomical Sites, Giza Pyramids, Mathematical Properties of the Pyramids, Cubits, Square the Circle, Nephilim, Angel = Messenger, Lucifer, Avatar, Tartarus, Azazel, Og, Tuatha De Danann, Spirits, Necromancy, the Occult Arts, Machu Picchu, Genetic Engineering, A Special Breed, Mount Zion, Apollyon and much more. We’ll continue now to talk more about the Antichrist and the New World Order for our members. Patrick Shares with us from his perspective on how things will play out in the future and what the end game of the New World Order is, how the world will break up into regions and how they will be ruled over in a certain Hierarchy of Kings or leaders. We talk about famine, Financial Crashes how the different empires have come and gone in history in accordance with what is in the Book of Daniel and the dream of Nebuchadnezzar. We also talk about the G20, their financial new World Order, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the beast and what the nature of the Antichrist or the World Leader will be.

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Did you know that Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic “Brave New World” is available on LP, narrated by the author? Neither did I. Better yet, you can download it for free.

Thanks Mac…

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Peter Robbins and Nick Redfern. Not pictured: Tim Binnall

Three past guests joined us for two hours of conversation about the Mass Mystery Weekend which took place on October 16th and 17th in Boston. Tim Binnall was co-organizer and the MC for the UFO lectures, and discussed the joys and problems of running a conference. At the conference, Nick spoke on UFO crashes and also about his research into the chupacabras and Peter talked about his famous research into the Bentwaters UFO landing case.

We spent the show discussing the conference itself, the guests’ recent work, the divide between those interested in UFOs and those who follow other aspects of the paranormal, and possible directions that research can go in the future. We also debated the pluses and minuses of the Disclosure movement, and Peter spoke about the possible use of Reichian Cloudbusters by the U.S. military.

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