Podcaster Gives a Refreshing Daily Dose of Skepticism on Claims of UFO'S, Psychics and Astrology

A new podcaster delivers a daily dose of skepticism each day to internet users. Tim Kammer, podcast host of A Skeptic Moment, challenges the commonly held beliefs and claims of UFO's, psychics and astrology.

Seattle (PRWEB) August 11, 2005 -- A new podcaster delivers a daily dose of skepticism each day to internet users. Tim Kammer, podcast host of A Skeptic Moment, challenges the commonly held beliefs and claims of UFO's, psychics and astrology. 'A Skeptic Moment' is a one minute daily podcast that humorously points out the facts and absurdities of astrology, psychic detectives, UFO sightings and other paranormal and pseudoscience claims.

The "A Skeptic Moment" podcasts are each only sixty seconds long and are updated each weekday at http://skeptic.podblaze.com. Kammer says he created the podcasts after watching one TV show after another on haunted houses, ghost hunters, UFO's, psychics talking to the dead and psychics solving crimes without an ounce of skepticism in their reporting.

"Some of these stories have been exaggerated or edited to the point of out rightlying." Kammer complains. "Podcast listeners get their daily dose of skepticism first thing in the morning before work," says Kammer. "That way they may think more skeptically other stuff they're faced with throughout their day."

Some of the nearly one hundred topics include the legend of Bigfoot, the origin of the word flying saucer, the first horoscope, the effects of the full moon, feng shui nonsense, cattle mutilations and whether space aliens are attempting to communicate with us by creating circles in our wheat.

On the horoscope issue, Kammer theorizes why our astrological sign is given to us at birth and not conception. He speculates on how early astrologers may have written bad horoscopes because they failed to take into account the effects of the planets that hadn't been discovered until recently. "Could this be Astrological Malpractice?", Kammer asks. "If the astrological influences of Pluto had been calculated into Abraham Lincoln's horoscope, he may have taken a bike ride instead of going to the theater.

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