Click above to listen to part 3 of Skeptic Check: Betting on Pseudoscience, featuring Lee McIntyre, Research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and lecturer on ethics at Harvard Extension School, describing means by which science deniers might be swayed back to the world of objective reality.

Skeptic Check: Betting on Pseudoscience:
Part 1: Robert Palmer / Psychic Pscam
Part 2: Lee McIntyre / The Rise of Denial
Part 3: Lee McIntyre / Engaging Disbelievers
Part 4: Britt Hermes / Science Convert

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