New York was a hot bed for spiritualism in the 18 hundreds. Two little girls started tricking adults into thinking that they were channelling spirits by making, like, these tapping noises on the floor. And then there were two brothers who started doing this seance act where they would turn off the lights and make the room dark before all of a sudden things would start moving around. It's amazing how much information can be crammed into an hour-long documentary. You want to stay and wonder about how something that doesn't seem possible happened.
David and Tamler return after an end of summer hiatus to finally talk about the ethics of deception….eventually. But first they break down a recent article in the journal Science documenting an attempt to replicate 100 recent psychology experiments. What does it mean that just over 1/3 of the studies were successfully replicated? Is social psychology in crisis or is this just how science works? Will David somehow try to pin the blame on philosophers?
Plus--a brief and almost certainly regrettable foray into the Ashley Madison hack, the neuroscience of lying to your kids about Santa, and we announce a new way to contact us to help celebrate our 75th anniversary.
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