In episode three of this series, Researcher Rob Heatherly & Author Craig Weiler join us to discuss the well-organized secret cabal of debunker editors called The Guerrilla Skeptics. This group of around of 150 editors targets any page on Wikipedia they consider pseudoscience such as the UFO / UAP topic as well as parapsychology, acupuncture, chiropractic to name a few. We also examine the activity and financial information of The Center For Inquiry. A non-profit with an enormous membership of debunkers, such as Mick West and Neil Degrasse-Tyson with millions of dollars in contributions dedicated to spreading through the media their one-sided message.
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Chapters: 00:00:00 - The Guerrilla Skeptics: Rewriting Wikipedia 00:08:25 - The Guerrilla Skeptics and their Manipulation of Information 00:16:30 - The TED Talks Controversy 00:24:12 - The Guerrilla Skeptics and their Targets 00:32:10 - Propagating Disinformation on Wikipedia 00:39:58 - The Arrogance of the Guerrilla Skeptics 00:47:28 - Debunkers and their Organized Tactics 00:55:23 - The Organization of the Guerrilla Skeptics 01:03:09 - Wikipedia's Lack of Integrity 01:10:48 - Manipulation of Wikipedia Contents 01:18:39 - Pseudo Science and the Parapsychological Association 01:27:01 - Wikipedia's Biased Editing Practices 01:35:02 - Editing Under Pseudonyms 01:42:54 - The Center for Inquiry 01:50:49 - Center for Inquiry and its Mission 01:58:59 - Countering Disinformation Campaigns 02:06:33 - The Influence of Subjective Consensus 02:13:51 - Coordinated Efforts of the Skeptic Community 02:22:25 - Wikipedia's Influence and Vulnerability 02:30:23 - Wikipedia's reputational damage and lack of accountability 02:38:16 - Introduction with Music
You can find Rob and all of the evidence he has accumulated on Twitter: @RobHeatherly1 and he will be on @COASTTOCOASTAMOFFICIAL this evening.
Craig Weiler is a California Bay Area based author and science editor for Paranormal Daily News. He covers controversies in parapsychology, such as a Wikipedia controversy, the TED controversy of 2013 and reported on 10 years of undiscovered research by Russell Gruber Mirror Worlds Research. He is currently working on the first issue of Parawize, a new magazine devoted to parapsychology and other edge sciences.
He is an associate member of the Parapsychological Association, author of Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the battle for the Internet. He pays the bills with his small construction business on the peninsula in northern California, where he lives with his wife and just enough cats. Craig can be found on: Paranormal Daily News: https://paranormaldailynews.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Craigweiler LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-weiler-5288b616/ Quora Parapsychology Space: https://parapsychology.quora.com/
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