{"id":35072,"date":"2011-05-08T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/dork-tower-busts-ghosts-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:37","slug":"dork-tower-busts-ghosts-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/dork-tower-busts-ghosts-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Dork Tower busts ghosts | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/2011\/04\/08\/dork-tower-friday-april-8-2011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/28156_DorkTower_mythbusters.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31796\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>As you might expect, I am not a big fan of ghost hunting shows. Stopping every ten seconds and dramatically whispering \"Did you hear that?\" is not exactly the best way to run a scientific investigation. <\/p><p>So I&rsquo;m pleased to see satires and such of those programs, and I think the web comic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/2011\/04\/08\/dork-tower-friday-april-8-2011\/\">Dork Tower does it pretty well here<\/a>. <\/p><p>Man, there&rsquo;ve been a lot of good sciencey skeptical web comics lately. Keep &lsquo;em coming, folks. It&rsquo;s one of the best ways to spread the word.<\/p><p> <em><\/em><\/p><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2005\/06\/07\/ghostly-reflections\/\"><\/a>Ghostly reflections<br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/09\/10\/ghost-hunting-results-in-death\/\">Ghost hunting results in death<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/07\/15\/when-is-a-man-like-a-horse\/\">When is a man like a horse?<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2007\/10\/17\/tapped-out\/\">TAPped out<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PUcZkIaIliekqCdAKIY8WFsiqS0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/28156_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PUcZkIaIliekqCdAKIY8WFsiqS0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/28156_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/28156_JkwC7Sjzlio\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/28156_DzvpxsnvIKc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might expect, I am not a big fan of ghost hunting shows. Stopping every ten seconds and dramatically whispering \"Did you hear that?\" is not exactly the best way to run a scientific investigation. So I&rsquo;m pleased to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/dork-tower-busts-ghosts-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}