The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

Monstertalk interviews the science advisors for the 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty television contest; and, in Michael Shermer’s “Skeptic” column for Scientific American, he takes a look at the accuracy of our perceptions about income equality and social mobility.

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, this lecture, by Dr. Gregory Clark, (based on his bookThe Son Also Rises) proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries.