Voices | Mark Wilson | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/mwilson/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Wilson. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:07:01 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ca2aec2d3054948c6741bd2e3866ff3e Mark Wilson's profile was updated https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/14830/ Mon, 13 May 2024 17:28:46 +0000 0 f7ff90f373e947e2300f36eecfb2abec Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Mark A. Wilson, Professor of Geology https://markwilson.voices.wooster.edu/?p=13 Sat, 15 Jul 2023 20:08:33 +0000 Welcome! My name is Mark A. Wilson and I am the Lewis M. and Marian Senter Nixon Emeritus Professor of Natural Sciences and Geology at The College of […]

]]> 6008d4999f26c9ca7e3b9ee5efa88bb7 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Sedimentology & Stratigraphy course at The College of Wooster http://sedstrat.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1864 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:24:44 +0000 974232006d2067d1227437a4917883c8 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1711 Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:03:02 +0000 Our last week! If I don’t get a chance to tell you after the presentations, you’ve been a superb class.

Student speakers on Monday —
Charlie: MK Ultra and CIA Mind Control Experiments
Linah: Is Malala […]

]]> e39e72e81e9189cb4a10162650abef33 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1705 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:18:41 +0000 Speakers today are —
Chris M.: The UFO Conspiracy about the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles
Griffin: Big Pharma and What They’re Hiding
Riley: Bigfoot: The Elusive Great Ape of North American Folklore
Enjoy the T […]

]]> 173c10d54e2dd7b510186d0139d60992 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1669 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:07:25 +0000 The top student choices for our topics this week are Area 51 and the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. Classics of our genre! I like these because I’ve done geological fieldwork near Area 51, and I […]

]]> bb8363a24c61bf2009a8894e2469dc86 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1639 Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:27:48 +0000 This week we use our skeptical tool kits to examine the pseudoscience and nonsense afflicting our health and medical systems. First up will be that venerable field of homeopathy, a billions-of-dollars industry […]

]]> f976cd778e12ed9ff60f9e6c933eb85e Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1621 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:40:27 +0000 This week is devoted to advising in preparation for next week’s epic course registration. Make sure you know where you are on our Advising Week schedule. Linked here is a useful Wooster video to give you a […]

]]> df558823e6e87d6c00a0006be6eb3826 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1584 Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:18:02 +0000 We intentionally kept this week unscheduled so we could catch up on any topics we need more time for. We also wanted to wait until we see the full range of research and conspiracy topics you chose to study. Watch […]

]]> 9eae3b7386eaa04111f203b046f49993 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1559 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:38:35 +0000 This is going to be a disturbing week. Our topic covers various “denial” movements and their arguments. Our most prominent subject will be Holocaust Denial and its advocates. To understand it, we must have basic […]

]]> 33fa0fd395c4cd29e10b43a48adac70f Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1531 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:34:14 +0000 It shouldn’t be a surprise that the term “fake news” now has its own Wikipedia page. At first it meant hoaxed news items, but in the Age of Trump it has taken on the role of a pejorative to throw at news you don’t […]

]]> ea4d101c0ba455ae1b590797f044b13e Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1520 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:13:39 +0000 The United States has a long tradition of anti-evolution activism, almost all of it based in fundamentalist Christianity. Welcome to my world. I’ve been teaching and studying evolution all my professional life and […]

]]> e33422a7ab1c9a9d2054545f0d709d3f Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1494 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:29:39 +0000 This is a building week because I’m gone until Wednesday evening. I will be in Phoenix at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America giving this presentation. Here’s our schedule for the week […]

]]> 17058ab54407d46b37275508bf7a6600 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1473 Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:19:18 +0000 Our topic this week is a popular one: psychic phenomena. Let’s start with a review of the whole psychic thing with a Wikipedia summary. Note that the concept is very broad, from self-proclaimed prophets to […]

]]> 101c2cac1c8d77ab012a0c165037fad6 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1456 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:03:26 +0000 We will start our week with the last half of the Behind the Curve documentary, finish our discussions of the framework for distinguishing science from pseudoscience, and then launch into conspiracy […]

]]> 73614979d389a5c954134faab7dbfe4e Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1418 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:21:30 +0000 The delightful month of September is upon us. Fall is coming — you’ll feel it in the cool mornings. We’ll start your first class of the month with a brief discussion of your experiences writing (and submitting) […]

]]> b34ae8b2b6500955587efedbdbaf6ee8 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1379 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:35:08 +0000 Now we start assembling our tools for critical analysis of fringe ideas. I find a chart of logical fallacies to be useful when sorting out the philosophical underpinnings of arguments:

There are plenty of […]

]]> 01d38acbc5eaaa9a8a53d124b0e742d8 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) https://nonsense.voices.wooster.edu/?p=527 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:57:01 +0000 I call this a course on “nonsense” for a reason: I am a skeptic by personality and my scientific profession. I support explanations of natural and historical events that are the simplest and best fit the available […]

]]> 6b0c7f97beee22d136a46156f534aa45 Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Invertebrate Paleontology course at The College of Wooster https://paleontology.voices.wooster.edu/?p=14 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 02:45:35 +0000 Welcome! There is such wonderful paleontological material on the Web. Come here often! I’ll assume from the start that you all know the Geologic Time Scale, which will be critical to all that we do in this course. […]

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