Penn and Teller

I am always amazed at how human you guys are... Compared to your average west coast "stars" that are so far removed from reality and regular human interaction that they become these icons that people look at longingly like gods to lemmings... bravo guys, keep doing what you do

I would love to see this!

YOU ASSHOLE

If I ever become president, I wanna make Penn Sec. of State and Teller my press Sec.

love it

He's straight up amazing, you don't need the quotation marks.

What a happiness...

Gary Baker: WTF?

Many giants and geniuses, to be sure, but was Marx the only atheist Leftist NOT included? Where, for example, was Ayn Rand-who some on that list have claimed to admire?

Can't wait until Hubble IMAX 3D comes out in March.

I think some people are afraid to look outside their vessel. The new science does not refute any religion. It mearly shows any where you stand is a different view...even if your eyes are closed. Let there be light has no confinement of size or time. If you look too closely at my picture, magnifying many times you will only see the dots of color; not the whole view. Ponder on that.

No Jesus is just alright with me!
No Jesus is just alright, Oh yeah!

all i can see is this is gonna start some big time fuss. like nathan said the target audience is going to start screaming big time. the real funny thing is they will blame the democrats.

im worried that he might throw knives at me with his mind

was wondering where Peter went after all those years of watching him on TV...Him and Jerry replaced thousands of cups of coffee sunday morning to get me up and aggitated.

it is well known that often scientists have an issue with other scientists that dispute beliefs held by the majority. Sometimes the majority are correct, but sometimes the opposing minor are correct. Otherwise we'd never have discoveries - a famous one always quoted is Galileo and the Earth going round the Sun idea. Other scientists of the time could apparently prove this was a ridiculous concept (as well as the religious leaders disputing the claim). So I fear it's possible that the majority of scientists (especially those making a living from this, and companies who make a profit from flu vaccines) want to discredit the scientists quoted in The Atlantic article.

Both sides can make claim to any number of reasons why both sides believe they are right and use analogies that both sides can poke holes in. But just because a majority of scientists (or any group of people) believe one thing, does not mean it's necessarily true.

I'm not against vaccinations when they're shown to work, eg smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, etc, but the flu one is apparently questionable with what seems to be reasonable evidence (eg 1997 incorrect strain of vaccination making no difference). So I'd like to see that question addressed, but it seems the majority just want to believe it works, and deny doing a large clinical trial.... Read More
Not good! That's not science, that's called faith.

Yes, the smallpox vaccination seemed to work, and work well, but influenza is not smallpox, it's possible a virus known to be capable of mutation needs a different approach. Smallpox was not a mutating virus.
Either way, I don't know. But I find it scary that those in favor of the flu vaccination seem to not want it to be tested on a larger population than the lab-trials that were done, and done to a standard that nobody can dispute.

sweet

James Randi...a true hero alongside Dawkins, Hitchens and Derren Brown! Fight the power!!!

Yay :)

I have to admit...I am not a Randi fan, however. His writing impressed me from neither a writing standpoint nor from a logic and reasoning standpoint.

But for the time they initially came out...I have to give him credit for bringing what he did to light and starting a very useful movement, even if that movement is sometimes as dogmatic as those things it tries and finds guilty. ... Read More

I love to go to this, though...great stuff :)

Ah, what other series brings people like this together. Thank you, Bullshit! (No, really, thanks.)

Bloody well come to Australia :P

Thanks for linking to my vid. More similar stuff including South park Skeptics on my blog
http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/
Cheers

Hey I know those guys! :)