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A science teacher has developed an activity for use by other teachers and their students to help address the pseudoscience concepts that seem to be creeping their way into the classroom. The teacher believes that the increase in pseudoscience is related to an increase in pseudoscience types of television shows along with the ability of pseudo-scientific ideas to be easily "published" on the World Wide Web.

"I like X-Files and Star Trek as much as anyone," the science teacher who lives in Sedona, Arizona said, "but I find many of my students believe in some of the shows, like Sightings and Unsolved Mysteries, that are presented as documentaries. We've got to face this issue now or it will continue to haunt us in the future."

The activity is called: Alien Autopsy--A Case for Skeptical Inquiry and you can copy it from this web site. The activity is free for any teacher to copy and use in class. Comments for improvements or discussion of its use should be sent to the author.

The activity addresses one of the most popular pseudoscience ideas flying around, the UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico and the film that supposedly was shot of autopsies of aliens recovered from the crash. He selected the Roswell Incident, as it's called, since there is a video available of the purported autopsies as well as a huge amount of information, both pro and con, on the Internet.

What's the latest topic on the web begging the question: "Is it science?" Try Reverse Speech. Now, for someone who remembers the sixties and seventies, playing those old phonograph records backwards to hear the secrets that Led Zep and John Lennon wanted me to know, this is deja vu. (I still remember my mom yelling at me: "Hey, you're going to ruin the needle on my record player, cut that out...")

What is Reverse Speech? According to true believers, it communicates what the subconscious mind is thinking. It can be heard when one records human speech then plays it backwards. Every five or ten seconds, clear phrases, reflecting what the subconscious mind is thinking, are mixed in and recognizable. For example, what was O.J. Simpson really thinking when he was professing his innocence? What have NASA scientists really told us about life existing on Mars?

Explore the two sides of Reverse Speech:

Reverse Speech
For skeptics

I haven't put together an activity for this yet, but it would be a fun project for a science class or science fair project studying pseudoscience. It's easy to set up a study using a computer and recording software.

Let me know if you or your students set something up. Publish your procedure on the web and I'll link to your site.

Is Reverse Speech real? Who was the Walrus? All I really know is that a tear still comes to my eye when I hear "Stairway to Heaven..."

A science teacher in Arizona, reportedly a skeptic of pseudoscience, has been uncovered as an alien in disguise. The teacher's true face was captured by a specially designed camera that defabricates morphogenic waves. Morphogenic waves, or M-Waves, are used by many aliens to disguise their true features. "The ability of many aliens to morph is well documented in the literature," said the scientists at a leading university who developed the special camera. "We expect that this will really help us to differentiate between who is an alien and who is just plain strange."

(This picture and others of "aliens" in the activity are kindly provided by Steve Johnson's XFX Inc. Steve Johnson's special effects crew built the aliens for the TV movie Roswell, and they know a real alien from a close encounter of the pseudoscientific kind!)

Kids, take pictures of UFO's using easily available, inexpensive technology!!! Astound your friends, confuse your teachers, sell your videos to content hungry news agencies... For free information on this fun activity, go to the Solar Obliteration World Wide Web Site Challenge Page.

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A science teacher has developed an activity for use by other teachers and their students to help address the pseudoscience concepts that seem to be creeping their way into the classroom. The teacher believes that the increase in pseudoscience is related to an increase in pseudoscience types of television shows along with the ability of pseudo-scientific ideas to be easily "published" on the World Wide Web. "I like X-Files and Star Trek as much as anyone," the science teacher who lives in Sedona, Arizona said, "but I find many of my students believe in some of the shows, like Sightings and Unsolved Mysteries, that are presented as documentaries. We've got to face this issue now or it will continue to haunt us in the future." The activity is called: Alien Autopsy--A Case for Skeptical Inquiry and you can copy it from this web site. The activity is free for any teacher to copy and use in class. Comments for improvements or discussion of its use should be sent to the author. The activity addresses one of the most popular pseudoscience ideas flying around, the UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico and the film that supposedly was shot of autopsies of aliens recovered from the crash. He selected the Roswell Incident, as it's called, since there is a video available of the purported autopsies as well as a huge amount of information, both pro and con, on the Internet.	What's the latest topic on the web begging the question: "Is it science?" Try Reverse Speech. Now, for someone who remembers the sixties and seventies, playing those old phonograph records backwards to hear the secrets that Led Zep and John Lennon wanted me to know, this is deja vu. (I still remember my mom yelling at me: "Hey, you're going to ruin the needle on my record player, cut that out...") What is Reverse Speech? According to true believers, it communicates what the subconscious mind is thinking. It can be heard when one records human speech then plays it backwards. Every five or ten seconds, clear phrases, reflecting what the subconscious mind is thinking, are mixed in and recognizable. For example, what was O.J. Simpson really thinking when he was professing his innocence? What have NASA scientists really told us about life existing on Mars? Explore the two sides of Reverse Speech: Reverse Speech For skeptics I haven't put together an activity for this yet, but it would be a fun project for a science class or science fair project studying pseudoscience. It's easy to set up a study using a computer and recording software. Let me know if you or your students set something up. Publish your procedure on the web and I'll link to your site. Is Reverse Speech real? Who was the Walrus? All I really know is that a tear still comes to my eye when I hear "Stairway to Heaven..."
A science teacher in Arizona, reportedly a skeptic of pseudoscience, has been uncovered as an alien in disguise. The teacher's true face was captured by a specially designed camera that defabricates morphogenic waves. Morphogenic waves, or M-Waves, are used by many aliens to disguise their true features. "The ability of many aliens to morph is well documented in the literature," said the scientists at a leading university who developed the special camera. "We expect that this will really help us to differentiate between who is an alien and who is just plain strange." (This picture and others of "aliens" in the activity are kindly provided by Steve Johnson's XFX Inc. Steve Johnson's special effects crew built the aliens for the TV movie Roswell, and they know a real alien from a close encounter of the pseudoscientific kind!)
Kids, take pictures of UFO's using easily available, inexpensive technology!!! Astound your friends, confuse your teachers, sell your videos to content hungry news agencies... For free information on this fun activity, go to the Solar Obliteration World Wide Web Site Challenge Page.
Copyright © 1995-2001 scire.com email: jllarsen@scire.com Last updated: April 19, 2001.