James Randi - Investigating Pseudoscientific and Paranormal Claims (2011)

Happy Halloween everyone! Remember kids, ghosts aren't real and people who claim to be able to talk to dead people are lying!

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Sam Harris - Keeping Religion Out of Public Policy

Rallying against dogmatism, rather than simply just religion, is an important distinction that I believe more atheists should be clear about. As atheists, we post our anti-religious memes, make anti-religious jokes, and generally poke fun of religion. All well and good, I say. Lets just keep in mind the larger war while we do so, and perhaps use some of our energies to include anti-dogmatism in our argumentation. Whether its political dogmatism, religious dogmatism, or any fanatic dogmatism, it all deserves our derision.

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Noam Chomsky vs. Alex Jones (Unknown)

Alex Jones is every skeptic's worst nightmare. His ideology centers around the monolithic evil conspiracy theory that an agency (called "them") control the world around us with an iron clad fist. I'm surprised Chomsky even went on his show. The debate starts out with some agreement happening between the two on how power is aggregated away from the public sphere into elite control. Chomsky disagrees with Jone's assertion that the public is largely unaware of this. The program breaks into absolutely ridiculous commercials for chemical filters for your shower and so forth. At 22:50, Chomsky tells Jones that the counter to government propaganda is to think critically and not take what people say at face value. Jones calls Chomsky a "New World Order shill" at 35:15, because Chomsky disagreed with Jones over gun death statistics. My loathing for Jones again rivals that of a Fox News pundit.

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James Watson - How We Discovered DNA (2005)

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jamesdwat182864.html#JWhUJBLvDAVWmmd0.99

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_d_watson.html#ISDwkAH5LJj7EvYY.99

"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles." - James Watson

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