Comments on: It’s All Related

By: There goes the neighborhood, maybe.

There goes the neighborhood, maybe. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:14:31 +0000

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By: James Severin

James Severin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:17:16 +0000

@Maria
Was that a “V” reference??

By: James Severin

James Severin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:16:53 +0000

@ BubbaRich
As I understand it your characterization of Bill Maher is spot on, while he derides 9/11 “truthers” as nuts and has been awarded the “Richard Dawkins Award” for his movie “Religulous”, he continues to bash Western Medicine. He was spouting Anti-vax nonsense on his program, and this leads to the confusion of Bill Maher. How can he be critical of 9/11 “truthers” and religion, and then totally uncritical of vaccines and medicine in general.

By: BubbaRich

BubbaRich — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:49:02 +0000

I missed this last week James. I have to assume you mean that Bill Maher is a good example of NOT basing his skepticism on evidence. He is a contrarian who seems to pick whichever side will make the most noise and the funnies jokes, and which one he can get the most spittle-flecking people on his side. I see no evidence of critical thinking from him. He doesn’t weigh evidence, he weighs who gets the points in a debate or shouting match. I haven’t seen him much in a few years, but the bits I’ve seen (and the reviews of Religulous) confirm this impression. Offhand, after seeing how he approaches religion, medicine, and evolution, I couldn’t guess which side he would be on with the 9/11 Truthers.

By: Jerry Jobe

Jerry Jobe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:29:44 +0000

Lizard people. Ha. (Hiss…) There’s no such thing.

(fades into background)

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:20:30 +0000

That’s all very well and good but you’ll be sorry when the lizard people come for you…

By: James Severin

James Severin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:29:45 +0000

I think that you bring up a key point,”wherever the evidence leads.” This I think is the central tenet of a skeptic. As I cruise my favorite blogs it surprises me the people who calls themselves “skeptics” and how they support vaccination but then go on to say that they have “serious questions” about the collapse of building 7. It’s ridiculous.

Bill Maher is a great example of this type of thinking, skepticism should be based on finding the truth based on evidence, and not fitting evidence to your truth.