Why You're Wrong

Everyone loves a pithy quote from a famous person, but a lot of quotes aren't what they seem. Looking at famous quotes that were misinterpreted, misapplied, or even never said at all.

No matter how much we may know better, it's hard to resist wanting something for nothing. Looking at free energy, hybrid cars, losing weight, and political expectations.

Fallacies committed by those hunting aliens and ghosts and why they aren't and shouldn't be taken as convincing arguments.

A few quick clarifications, rambling about space, and shout-outs. All the administrative details you could want, all in one place.

Why you're wrong about food. Looking at aspartame, MSG, genetically modified food, chemicals, and health risks.

Explanations, clarifications, bible quotations and defenestrations, all featured in this episode. Corrections, and tackling questions surrounding the Drake equation, the virgin Mary, and if violent video games increase the deaths of spree killings.

Why you're wrong about a number of hypotheticals in the US by looking at how it works in Canada. Looking at gun control, mortgage tax deductions, and socialized medicine.

Now combining right but wrong and wrong but rights into one, with the Milgram experiments, the Inquisition, muscle vs fat, and why turkey makes you sleepy.

History has not been kind to a few people, and this is why you're wrong to think less of them. Looking at Christopher Columbus, indians selling Manhattan, Neville Chamberlain, and the Kitty Genovese witnesses.

Back with more common words and expressions that people frequently get wrong, now including hyper-corrections!

What the pay gap between men and women really means, what the Drake equation is for, and why we're proportionally much stronger than an ant. Stats!

What's in common with evolution and the economy? Find out why you're wrong about what both systems are geared towards producing. PLATINUM CLUB MEMBERS: bonus WWII rant from Tim!

A roundup of a few laws that don't work the way they're commonly portrayed: entrapment, double jeopardy, and libel and slander.

Like our Bumper Sticker Fallacies episode, this one is devoted specifically to the fallacies committed by alternative medicine. You can trust us on this one, we have the degrees to prove it.

A year has passed, and despite our proclamation in the first episode that we aren't experts in anything, that isn't strictly true. This episode we get a bit self-indulgent and let you know why you're wrong about photography and buying a car.