An Institute for Inquiry workshop given by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal . The very same behaviors and coping mechanisms that typically make us successful, in different contexts, make us vulnerable to error and deception.
Errors occur in various sizes and in many guises.
There are slips of the tongue, simple mistakes, and colossal blunders. The results of many errors are not serious or can easily be rectified. Pilot error, medical errors, driving mistakes, and hunting accidents can be irreversible and fatal. Often the person who errs quickly realizes that he or she has failed to achieve an intended outcome. Our concern, as skeptics, is with those errors that are not recognized as such by those who make them.