Richard Saunders at TAM 6 on Bringing Critical Thinking to Schools

[CrimsonRefractions]

I would have filled that bottle with a non-water liquid. But perhaps that's what he did. Still watching :)

[ThirdRomeAquilo]

Basically him and others like him invent words like 'skepticism' because they lack any real legitimate intelligence. Its kinda like how some schools give all the kids ribbons of success for participating. These losers need to give themselves their own invented label, in order to feel relevant in some sort of manner.

Skepticism occurs around 50 fucking times a day with the average person.

Turning it into some sort of 'sub-culture' is the height of annoyance and irritation.

[wristawareness]

@ThirdRomeAquilo What percentage of Americans do you think knows how long it takes the Earth to go around the Sun? Critical thinking isn't so innate, teaching it is important.

[FHomeBrew]

The guy at 16:00 got "There's water all around us". Lol.

[happyhappy85]

Bit of a dick isn't he?

[ThirdRomeAquilo]

apparently he has confused his own personal emotional state of 'bitterness'... as 'skepticism'.

Skepticism is a self rewarded label for losers who cannot be successful skeptics. Otherwise they'd just do whatever job it is they do. Skepticism is required in just about every facet of life and career.

[tekproxy]

To the people that complain this guy is boring: He wrote 17 books on origami. HELLO. Of course he's boring.

[ThirdRomeAquilo]

@tekproxy hahahaha wow

[myjizzureye]

Somebody needs to shoot that cunt to make him shut the fuck up. There is NO EXCUSE for somebody being THIS level of boring. Being such a bland, humorless, personality devoid fuckwit should be punishable by death....

[IAMLOST]

Best moment of the video around 20:55

[Dtrollmancan]

well I'm a skeptic this guy is an skeptic

[Kargoneth]

The description says TAM 7 but the title says TAM 6.

[10mintwo]

You know all these "skip to 12:30" comments are having the OPPOSITE effect, right? We're skeptics! lol. Now I HAVE to watch it. Suffice it to say, he does seem a bit pleased with himself.

I remember a while ago when he was interviewing skepchicks Rebecca Watson et. al. he said a few things that made me cringe HARD. I'm not a huge fan of Watson by any means, but that incident raised an eyebrow. This... wasn't the absolution to his comments of that episode I was hoping for.

[ShallowBeThyGames]

I used critical thinking when reading the comments below. So I watched the whole 12:30 of vaccuous crap and can confirm the comments are valid.

[Berelore]

For the love of all that is soft and furry please don't invite him back. Everyone else skip to 12:30 to get past his ego stroking public masturbation.

[prophetchannel]

A good school would have Christopher Hitchens as a History teacher, Stephen Fry as an English teacher, Neil Degrasse Tyson in astronomy, Richard Dawkins in Biology, Brian Cox in physics, Jim Al-Khalili in Chemistry, Marcus du Sautoy in mathematics, Antony Giddens in Social Science.

[ShallowBeThyGames]

@prophetchannel Michio Kaku would be an awesome teacher. I think teachers have to be inspiring, so good call with a few of your picks - Jim Al-Khalili is good at what he does.

[mrwhite692000]

Overall, quite disappointing and unoriginal material that I'm sure every person in that audience could have talked about. This seemed more like an excuse to show off credentials and play down the (far more entertaining) participants. 

[TKStoddart]

Thanks, but a 30-second summary of this video would be better.

[PaulRubino]

New to this video? Click to 12:30 … QUICK … to get to something worth watching. This guy loves to hear himself talk. The only person he seems to be entertaining is himself. If he was half as smart/witty as he thinks he is, he might be worth watching. You know what, i'm 20 minutes into this guy and i'm clicking off. I can't take this guy. Bye.

[squirreljester2]

I can't find who he's talking about in the beginning, that mui poo girl.

[Vortex42]

Why is he wasting so much time??? Get to the fricken talk.

[somuchfortalent]

The teachers were more entertaining than the speaker.

[UnOxonien]

God this is dull. How long does he spend reading off his CV and namedropping? He stops being an egotist around 12:30.

[DoctorPlausible]

I this, I that, I this, I that.

"What am I going to talk about? What am I going to talk about? Oh, I know. I'm going to talk about myself."

If this talk came between two hard thought sessions with other people, no problem. But…

[thesilentskeptic]

This reminds me more of an oscar acceptance speech rather than Bringing Critical Thinking to Schools.

[MrCattlehunter]

He spends like half the video talking about the people he is friends with...

[Pilotwing64]

Whose youtube channel is he promoting there at the beginning?

[ofpfury]

I'm over eleven minutes in and yet to see anything about "bringing critical thinking to schools". Good luck all

[O2BSoLucky]

@ofpfury Yeah he prattles but it starts at about 12 mins so you were nearly there ;-)

[kluboski]

@ofpfury You should've watched LONGER then!

[Rushlimpballs]

Here's the thing about spoon bending. Let's just say there was a god. Ok, an all-powerful, all-knowing super being decided to bestow magical powers to a few humans and that's what he gave them? The power to bend cutlery with their mind? I can't think of any scenario in which that superpower would come in handy. "Quick, Yuri, they're robbing a bank. Stop them with bend spoons..."

[IAMLOST]

@Rushlimpballs Of course it's completely useless, but I don't think that Uri Geller has ever claimed that he got his "superpower" from god. Although he is a religious man who believes in god, he has a far more reasonable explanation for where he got his powers from. Quote Uri: "Maybe this does not come from me at all. Maybe this is something extra- terrestrial. Maybe it is a little alien baby run away from its parents and it's playing around with me." Sounds legit.

[TheLaughingOut]

This guy's got a healthy ego, if anything.

[PragnorVorn]

The tv show 'the One' even with Richard Saunders in it was crap. Only because of how one sided everything was. For some reason Richard was scoffed at every time he proved something was false. It's a shame too.

Personally I would have liked them to have a control group of non-psychics to compare how good the 'so-called' psychics were.

[PragnorVorn]

Cont - Most of the tests I would say the psychics failed abysmally. Nothing that they got correct couldn't be put down to more than sheer chance. But funnily enough, when they finally got something correct it was like "Oh wow! They really have psychic abilities!" LMAO! I cringed every time. So one sided... :(

[liltonyabc]

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