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A Skeptic on Coast to Coast AM

Good luck with the show. It seems Whitley Strieber will be interviewing you, which i guess is (slightly) better than George Snoory (i mean he's a nice guy and all, but boring as hell and not exactly an intellectual giant).

btw.. i'm not too impressed with Schermer, but that's a different issue.
 
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I expect that you will have a receptive audience, or at least half a receptive audience. Part of the C2C audience will believe any quack-science/medicine idea that comes along. The other part believes that there's a government conspiracy that's out to get everyone using any means necessary, including lie detectors.

So you'll have people on your side, but not necessarily for the right reasons.

Ward
 
You're coming across really well, but I can't listen for much longer as I need to go to work. It's also, and this is absolutely no reflection on you, hard to listen as most of the show is ads or filler telling us what is coming up rather than content. I thought we were about to have a phone in, and instead the host started promoting his book for teenagers, and then went to yet more ads.

Anyway, well done for getting on the show and putting across a fact-based analysis of what's wrong with polygraph tests. How did it come about?
 
Ugh... who ever thought it was a good idea to give this guy and his wife a radio show together?
 
Zooterkin,

The interview came about when I was e-mailed out-of-the-blue last week by a producer for the show who said that a listener had tipped her off to my work.

I don't normally listen to Coast to Coast AM, but over the weekend they had a serious conversation about GPS tracking with Kim Zetter of Wired.com and a security consultant.

I'm glad now that I agreed to the interview and hope that it helped to further public understanding of my pet pseudoscience.

:)
 
Any way to listen to the show without being a paid member of Coast to Coast? I missed the live version.
 
Great job!

It's refreshing to hear a guest who refuses to play along with their "credulity game" of validating every asinine claim put forth by every caller.

I was trying to keep track of how many times you used the word "skeptical" in the interview, but had to walk away from the radio for a few minutes here and there. I counted at least four.
 
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Good stuff.

I heard it this morning on XM radio.

I've always hated the pseudoscientific tool of intimidation that is the polygraph, and that was a scathing debunking.

Good job, George.
 
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