Great Mysteries of the Earth

What I learned in ...

Great Mysteries of The Earth

Course presented by

Richard D. Hamell

Associate Professor

Chemistry/Geosciences Dept.

Office: 8-418 / Phone 1-585-292-2423

Monroe Community College

1000 East Henrietta Road
Rochester, NY, 14623

United States of America

GEO-103

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Just because something is in print (or video) doesn't make it truth.

Down the Rabbit hole .....

Lecture 1 - Procedures                                                                Lecture2 - Identifying the Unknown       Lecture3 - Science Article Critique
Lecture 4 - What Is Science?                                                     Lecture 5 - Plate Tectonics                        Lecture 6 - In Search of Ancient Astronauts
Lecture 7 - The McMonroevanian Tablet                                Lecture 8 - The Alien Autopsy                    Lecture 9 - The Roswell Crash
Lecture 10 - UFO's                                                                        Lecture 11 - Ancient Structures                Lecture 12 - Stonehenge
Lecture 13 - Ancient Structures (Mound Builders)                Lecture 14 - The Pyramid Builders          Lecture 15 - Berlitz's Bermuda Triangle
Lecture 16 - Monsters: Myth, Legends and Imagination     Lecture 17 - Hoaxes                                    Lecture 18 - Cryptids
Lecture 19 - Monsters of the Deep                                            Lecture 20 - Lake Champlain Monster    Lecture 21 - Loch Ness Monster
Lecture 22 - Dinosaur History and Hunters                             Lecture 23 - Thermal Strategies               Lecture 24 - Gigantism
Lecture 25 - Extinctions

My personal view on who you listen to... During the class (and in life) you will be exposed to some celebrity opinion (in the videos) on what to believe. Celebrities, especially actors and actresses in my experience are some of the most maladjusted people in our society. For some reason many of us believe, incorrectly, that just because they are on Television, Movies or in Politics that they have a special knowledge. Allowing them to guide your view on a subject in my opinion is a big mistake.

Know your sources before making a judgment. Do not take your information from a single source, look around at all the evidence on all sides. Go to the source of the information, not a second or third hand source. Where appropriate use the scientific method, Ockham's Razor and your brain! Ockham's razor goes something like this... "I saw an unidentified light in the sky last night, is it more likely that it was an alien craft from a distant civilization or is it more likely that it was an airplane?

Do you know what a Confirmation Bias is?

Alien Autopsy Film

The Scientific Method

Pseudoscience

"Science Friday" on Pseudoscience. "Skepticism is not a position its a process."