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Dogen
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Did you see Religulous? It was awesome, in a sad, this-won't-help-anything kind of way.
| 11bulletstop, way back, wrote: | | But damn Dogen, that was the shit. Did you just spit that out, like, you read "gimme cite" and clicked post reply right away? |
I'm a psych major... one of my focuses is behavioral neuroscience. So, yeah, I just knew that... but only because it's my chosen field. |
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Snorri
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Dogen wrote: | Did you see Religulous? It was awesome, in a sad, this-won't-help-anything kind of way.
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Yeah, but I read his comments about medicine too.
Seriously. He is a germ-theory denier.
I mean, even if there weren't other things he was crazy on that right there would really put him firmly in the crazy-camp.
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kame
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| Snorri wrote: | | Bill Maher is a fucking crazy douche. |
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Dogen
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| Huh... I hadn't read about that before. I was never a big enough fan to research him... that's too bad. Just goes to show that rationality is not an all or nothing concept... too bad. |
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DeD CHiKn
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Snorri wrote: | | Bill Maher is fucking crazy. |
I cant stand him personally.
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Mizike
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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A while back, some of our Swedes questioned the labeling of Swedish news anchors as cronkiters.
Surprise.
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Dogen wrote: | | Huh... I hadn't read about that before. I was never a big enough fan to research him... that's too bad. Just goes to show that rationality is not an all or nothing concept... too bad. |
I stopped watching Penn & Teller's Bullshit after about a season because they were prone to using bullshit over rationality and facts-based debunking.
So yeah, about the only decent show for uncovering things with anything resembling scientific vigor anymore is Mythbusters, and I suspect even they fudge the experiments quite a bit.
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andrew
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| What about Michael Moore???????? |
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tinkeringIdiot
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| Mythbusters needs to hire an engineer to screen their ideas. A fair number of the myths they test can be debunked with basic thermodynamics or dynamics. Also they're experimental design is crappy. But then, it's not really a fact-based show. |
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DeD CHiKn
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| tinkeringIdiot wrote: | | Mythbusters needs to hire an engineer to screen their ideas. A fair number of the myths they test can be debunked with basic thermodynamics or dynamics. Also they're experimental design is crappy. But then, it's not really a fact-based show. |
Im pretty sure they go in knowing a few of them are gonna fail. Theres been several I knew would fail just because proving that it worked would pretty much be teaching us how to build bombs.
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Snorri
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| tinkeringIdiot wrote: | | Mythbusters needs to hire an engineer to screen their ideas. A fair number of the myths they test can be debunked with basic thermodynamics or dynamics. Also they're experimental design is crappy. But then, it's not really a fact-based show. |
I'm pretty sure they are aware that several myths they debunk are impossible. It's just so much fun to try them out.
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WheelsOfConfusion
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Yeah, that's kind of the point: if myths were debunked easily with pen and paper then where's the primetime TV in that?
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Willem
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| DeD CHiKn wrote: | | Id watch kari byron solve difficult math problems. |
"Mmm. This math problem is so hard. It's going to take me all night."
*puts tip of pencil in mouth*
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