Skeptigator

Cool little interview of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from the AV club.
And hence the reason I love Mythbusters.
AVC: You guys don’t have any formal scientific training, but you generally seem to follow scientific methods and procedures when you’re testing myths. To what degree are you attempting to scientifically prove something, vs. just indulging your [...]

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I know this is old news but man it’s funny, http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38575
Money quote,
“We now believe that the [Law of Difficulty] theorem is 99.999% likely to be true, after applying these incredibly complex statistical techniques that gave me a splitting headache,” Farian said. “A theorem is like a theory, but, I don’t know, it’s different.”

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