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20-08-2007, 09:47 PM
I've just seen this program, on C4 (http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/E/enemies_of_reason/) , and the pathos of this man's thoughts, really got to me!
The Irrational Health Service
C4 Mon 20 Aug 2007 8pm
Prof Richard Dawkins looks at how health has become a battleground between reason and superstition. A third of us now spend a total of over 1.6 billion a year on superstitious alternative remedies, but 80% of them have never been subjected to properly conducted trials.
What do these guys, call 'superstition'? How could these remedies be subjected, to trials, when the government forcefully surpresses them?
Slaves to Superstition
C4 Mon 13 Aug 2007 8pm
Prof Richard Dawkins tackles the epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking which is blotting the light of logic and evidence. After garnering tips on psychics' entirely earthly trade secrets from the illusionist Derren Brown, Dawkins attends a seance and confronts the medium. Time and again, the interviewees appeal to personal revelation or second-hand anecdote to justify their belief.
WTF? More and more bull... for preprogrammed minds! :mad: What other revelations would there be? Again the Illuminati governments, have surpressed any real research!
Pathetic!
This persons close mind, asks about Evidence, while he is like a moth (in a bottle), attracted by the light through the glass!!
There are two ways of looking at the world – through faith and superstition or through the rigours of logic, observation and evidence – in other words, through reason. Reason and a respect for evidence are precious commodities, the source of human progress and our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit from obscuring the truth.
Yet, today, society appears to be retreating from reason.
Apparently harmless but utterly irrational belief systems from astrology to New Age mysticism, clairvoyance to alternative health remedies are booming.
Richard Dawkins confronts what he sees as an epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking...
He explains the dangers the pick and mix of knowledge and nonsense poses in the internet age, and passionately re-states the case for reason and science.
Imagine the already preconditionned minds, watching, and listening to that guy! What f***ing chance, do they have?
Click here for the discussion forum (http://community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=162603557&f=69460501)!
The Irrational Health Service
C4 Mon 20 Aug 2007 8pm
Prof Richard Dawkins looks at how health has become a battleground between reason and superstition. A third of us now spend a total of over 1.6 billion a year on superstitious alternative remedies, but 80% of them have never been subjected to properly conducted trials.
What do these guys, call 'superstition'? How could these remedies be subjected, to trials, when the government forcefully surpresses them?
Slaves to Superstition
C4 Mon 13 Aug 2007 8pm
Prof Richard Dawkins tackles the epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking which is blotting the light of logic and evidence. After garnering tips on psychics' entirely earthly trade secrets from the illusionist Derren Brown, Dawkins attends a seance and confronts the medium. Time and again, the interviewees appeal to personal revelation or second-hand anecdote to justify their belief.
WTF? More and more bull... for preprogrammed minds! :mad: What other revelations would there be? Again the Illuminati governments, have surpressed any real research!
Pathetic!
This persons close mind, asks about Evidence, while he is like a moth (in a bottle), attracted by the light through the glass!!
There are two ways of looking at the world – through faith and superstition or through the rigours of logic, observation and evidence – in other words, through reason. Reason and a respect for evidence are precious commodities, the source of human progress and our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit from obscuring the truth.
Yet, today, society appears to be retreating from reason.
Apparently harmless but utterly irrational belief systems from astrology to New Age mysticism, clairvoyance to alternative health remedies are booming.
Richard Dawkins confronts what he sees as an epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking...
He explains the dangers the pick and mix of knowledge and nonsense poses in the internet age, and passionately re-states the case for reason and science.
Imagine the already preconditionned minds, watching, and listening to that guy! What f***ing chance, do they have?
Click here for the discussion forum (http://community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=162603557&f=69460501)!