Debate between skeptic and believer highlights differences in how controversial science is understood and accepted

Del Mar, CA, May 30, 2009 –(PR.com)– The idea of “global mind” doesn’t sit right with skeptic, and host of the popular Skeptiod Podcast, Brain Dunning. Dunning’s not just uncomfortable with the idea of an interconnected planet, but with the science used to investigate such claims. He labels it, “fringe science”, and, “pseudoscience”. Not so for global consciousness believer, and Skeptiko host, Alex Tsakiris. Tsakiris believes the science behind global consciousness is solid, and the ten years of accumulated data, impressive.

 Join host Alex Tsakiris when he interviews Brain Dunning of Skeptoid for a 30-minute skeptic versus believer debate on the Global Consciousness Project. The interview can be heard at: www.skeptiko.com/73-skeptoid-brian-dunning/. During the interview Dunning and Tsakiris spare over the science behind The Global Consciousness started by Dr. Roger Nelson of Princeton, and Dr. Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. They also discuss whether the project’s results show proof an interconnectedness among people around the planet:

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