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The Show / Re: Remote Healing
« on: December 16, 2009, 03:05:43 AM »
And then Sam called in praising Edgar Casey and his scam magic. Yeesh, I have more things to call about now I guess.

http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/Cayce,%20Edgar.html

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The Show / Remote Healing
« on: December 15, 2009, 11:19:00 PM »
2 nights in a row people call in about this remote healing bunk. I had called in tonight to talk about last nights call, and while I was on hold another lady called in to talk about it and they put me on with her LOL. I wish I had more time to talk to her, I just barely got started.

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The Show / Re: Ian...man love?
« on: December 15, 2009, 09:05:55 PM »
Ian said on a previous show that when he was about 10 that he had sex (didn't specify what kind of sex) with a male neighbor in exchange for video games and stuff like that.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 10, 2009, 03:40:30 PM »
Even if the unbelievers are WRONG, like, say flat earthers...they have a right to their wrong opinion, and you don't have a right to persecute them for it.

Incorrect, I do have the right to (since I can open my mouth and speak or type words) and I will point out their error if I care enough about a certain subject.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 10, 2009, 02:28:07 PM »
FTL is anti-TYRANNY.  When science is abused for tyrannical purposes, it is reasonable to rebel.

Sure, rebel against the people doing the tyranny, not the legit tools they use. By your logic, FTL should rebel against guns since the state uses them to enfoce tyranny on people.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 10, 2009, 12:51:22 PM »
True. That's why being peer reviewed and having your work repeasted is a manner of controlling for those mistkaes correct?

I think you need to repeast your work and correct your miskaes.   :lol:

(just teasing)

Ouch, spellcheck needed LOL

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 10, 2009, 11:27:16 AM »
Being a scientist, I will say that you should not take everything a scientists says as fact. We are prone to mistakes.


True. That's why being peer reviewed and having your work repeasted is a manner of controlling for those mistkaes correct? What kind of science do you do?

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 10:43:39 PM »
Scott in Winnipeg,

You are an idiot.

Yay, I win :)

No you don't, and by resorting to a childish rebuttal instead of trying to correct your error you come off as twice the idiot you were before.

An atheist need not prove the non-existence of God to free himself from whatever religious cults torment him!


I win because you were the first to resort to name calling without making any points to back up your position. so, I win, thanks :)

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 08:53:32 PM »
Wait, what?

The burden of proof is on whoever is making a positive claim.  "X is true." "X is false." "X exists." "X doesn't exist."  Those are all positive claims.  The "positive," by the way, means you're making an assertion about reality.  "I don't know" or "I doubt that is true" do not carry any burden of proof, as they are merely statements about how (un)convinced you are. 

Exactly. If climate-gate "proves" that climate warming is a hoax, okay, show me how those e-mails prove that. If vaccines cause autism, okay, show me the evidecne that shows it.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 08:49:32 PM »
Scott in Winnipeg,

You are an idiot.


Yay, I win :)

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 07:09:05 PM »
Then what's your problem with FTL's coverage of ClimateGate, which you've mentioned in your original post?
That some of the people involved with FTL think that ClimateGate "proves" that it is all a scam.
That shows a mis-understanding of science.

It's sad how the concept of "burden of proof" still escapes you...

In that case the "burden of proof" is on those nay-sayers to show how Climate gate e-mails "proves" the science behind climate change to be faulty.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 06:34:30 PM »
Then what's your problem with FTL's coverage of ClimateGate, which you've mentioned in your original post?


That some of the people involved with FTL think that ClimateGate "proves" that it is all a scam. That shows a mis-understanding of science.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 05:16:47 PM »
Yes, anyone who buys into any of the latest Socialism-to-Save-The-World hysteria is doing so entirely based on uncritical faith in the government institutions putting out this alarmism - the fox guarding the hen-house.

That's not at all what I am saying.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 12:48:45 PM »
FTL is pretty good on psychology. 

It's just that with other science topics, they often aren't very critical

You're right.

The SGU is one of the best podcasts out there, especially for becoming science literate. Shermer is great, I've read several of his books. He sometimes gets flak from skeptics about being a libertarian, but I became a libertarian because I'm a skeptic.

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The Show / Re: FTL is becoming anti-science
« on: December 07, 2009, 11:56:17 AM »
Hey Mark, I've been listening to FTL since Feb 2007. I think what bothers me is that just all of these things have crept up at once and seem to be a theme lately. When Wayne says something as blatantly false as "Vaccines cause autism" he goes unchallanged, which is disturbing.

"I know you don't disagree with that, so what is the problem?"

Bad information being spread.

"FTL is a bunch of crackpots unless they agree with you?"

Not with me, with the world as it really is.

"If we are crazy idgits then you should be able to call in and handily reveal us as such."

Not that easy when it's 3 on 1 :)

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