Tag Archives: Assumption

Imaginary

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: March 5, 2013

It’s been a little while since I’ve mentioned Finding Bigfoot, my current favorite pseudoscience “reality” show on television. As I’ve mentioned before, I find shows like this to be fascinating because it illustrates both the virtues of skepticism and the scientific method as well as the dangers of wanting to believe something so much, you’re [...]

Posted in Blog, Skepticism | Also tagged Bigfoot Hunters, Bigfoot Team, Conclusion, Discovery, Exact Line, Eye Witness Accounts, Fact Of The Matter, Folktales, Horses, Intrepid Team, Line Of Reasoning, None Of Those Things, Photographs, Reality Show, Scientific Method, Skepticism, Television, Twisting Road, Virtues | 2 Comments

Finding Pseudoscience

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: December 4, 2012

I’ve been watching a lot of Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet lately. It’s not because I’m expecting them to ever find a bigfoot. It’s because no show on television illustrates the virtues of true skepticism or the powers of rationalization. If you haven’t watched Finding Bigfoot, I recommend sitting down and watching at least a [...]

Posted in Blog, Skepticism | Also tagged Animal Planet, Bear Tracker, Biases, Bigfoot, Bro, Circumstances, Few Minutes, Ghost Adventures, Ghost In The Room, Ghosts, Giant, Intrepid Investigators, Investigations, Poor Folks, Proof, Pseudoscience, Rationalization, Skepticism, Virtues | 5 Comments

Sympathy for the Dark Side

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: November 27, 2012

It’s an old observation, but if you take a moment to consider language, you can see how it can stifle our perceptions. The one I’ve noticed quite a bit lately is the use of “light” and “dark” as stand-ins for “good” and “evil”. It is ever-present, and while there are a lot of logical reasons [...]

Posted in Blog, Movies, Writing | Also tagged Alternate Names, Boogieman, Dark Elements, Drab Colors, Evil Forces, Extra Step, Guardians, Heroic Characters, Ins, Jack Frost, Logical Reasons, Perceptions, Pitch Black, Predisposition, Sandman, Sinister Elements, Synonyms, Tooth Fairy, Trumps | 3 Comments

Endgame

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 10, 2012

The universe was here long before you ever existed. It will be here long after you’re gone. It’s a hard truth, one that seems wrong to most people. We are all at the center of our own reality, with everyone and everything else existing as adjunct elements. It doesn’t mean that other people are objects, [...]