Richard Dawkins Enemies of Reasons - Cold Reading.

[kanejacob]

Hahaha i so love how Dawkins keeps blinking rapidly !

[Lillyvon]

Haha - I love how 'the dead' mumble! Why don't they just say 'my name is Betty Jones, I died of lung cancer - my granddaughter is in the room'. Strangely they don't because - well, they are dead! No one can speak with the dead and anyone that says they can are either shonks or completely delusional. Either one, they are disgusting and take advantage of the not so smart.

[sharpanator]

@Lillyvon true, in my mind they are criminals because they charge money for it. Its like home order television takes advantage of old naive ppl with their overpriced "wonder products". PPl who believe in ghosts,cards or even religion are small minded, too bad that the small minded islam is conquering europe, it will bring us back into medieval time

[warren52nz]

I like the organ music at beginning of the seance. It's starting to sound like organ music is often associated with bullshit. 8^)

[TsukuYUMMYru]

Is a requirement of entry to a spiritualist church 'must have multiple chins'???

[feanando]

Oh, c'mon... DAWKINS is the greater enemy of science.

If you doubt me, search for his declaration in a debate: "the WHY question is a silly question"...

Wake up.

[ChickityChoice]

@feanando search for what?

[miskbalder]

derren brown and richard dawkins should team up and build the "kickass thinkers squad"

[yashaouchan]

It's TERRIBLE that people still do this.

[CRUSH3Rdlux]

Dawkins: Pwning IDiots one superstition at a time.

[BigDog91527]

fucking cunt this card-reading douchebag is. Taking money from gullible people and making the society dumber and dumber as he goes on.

If i saw this motherfucker drowning, i wouldn't help him.

[spartonne]

lol at 6:28. Cheesa Han Solo chubaca!

[docterdroob]

god this just made me feel bad for all the people....

[godlynessdog]

Psychic: I do feel with her she had a lot of cat's.

Dawkins: A lot of...?

Psychic: Cats, cats, CATS!

Dawkins: Are you suggesting my Grandmother was a crazy cat lady?

Psychic: CATS, CATS, CATS!!!

[beadheadbrassie]

I've always thought that if a psychic was legit they should be able to tell you exact things without asking you questions, like your name. If there were actually a deceased person there talking to the psychic, medium, or whatever flavor of charlatan they may be, it would stand a reason that they would know your name and perhaps they would be able to tell you something important. Anyone who looks at it critically should know that it is all BS.

[charlieking100]

Dawkins is the Rottweiler of Darwin!! Don't ever mess with him with your stupidity and make a fool or yerself....

[italiansurprise]

My Grandma's name is Erma and she's been through roughly 7 cats in her life... mind not blown.

[rpm297]

Dawkins and Randi raining on the parades of psychics everywhere would be the best show on TV.

[redshark618]

The psychic probably saw this on TV and he was like:

"Fuck, i look so stupid - **facepalm**

[xXNickPXx]

Batman Forever on VHS at 8:08 .

I think this proves it, guys.

Batman is Forever. He is the Lord Almighty. Batman is God.

Sorry Dawkins, I just ended your career.

[finarm]

LMFAO this is some good shi

[Brenda2OOO]

These 'psychics' are no worse than priests and preachers in taking advantage of people's need for something to lean on.

[freedomland11]

@Brenda2OOO..You are soo wrong about your blunt statement

[pyVlad]

XD "chest conditions" That's not the tiniest bid broad. A freaking cough is a chest condition.

[YBAdick]

The way I see it, they make money off it... and while that is not really all that noble, what can you say, that really is the underlined name of the game.

[QuestionYourThoughts]

haha he touches his ear at 1:55

[lancethrustworthy]

NO, not cold at all. CORRECT is what it is. Learn to differentiate...or don't.

[6023Nath]

LOL. It's sad that people turn to dickheads for closure. Take some fucking LSD or DXM and meditate. Bam, you are now more holly! More holly then these losers at least. I think some actually believe theyare powerfull....Mental illness perhaps. If so i feel for them.

[MrStillmans]

They're not psychics. They are psychopaths.

One day, hopefully, humanity will get the label right.

[edwinm1]

@MrStillmans no, these guys are tricksters. Religious nuts on the other hand.......

[Metamorphosis20091]

antitheist19 . wordpress . com / 2010 / 10 / 23 / the - selfish - meme/

This is my new blog post, an it's about Cold Reading, so if anyone would like to learn about this, check it out!

[NorwayHack]

Not every medium is a medium, next time: Lisa Williams or Coliin Fry

[runebagel]

get owned medium

[thiswintertime]

I like the Derren Brown quote at 2:58

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

hahaha these Cold readers are fucking morons.. their clients are even greater morons. Morons don't help the greater good of humanity. And it's not harmless fun, you are delusional if you think it's harmless. I love Derren Brown! He is amazing! I wish I knew 1% of what he does about the human mind.

[nitestar95]

When you die, the first thing you do is attend a class that teaches you to create cryptic ways of communicating with the living, because god has a law preventing any clear and precise contact. Yeah, that's it!

[joekawi]

I'm getting a feeling that someone who has watched this video has had a family member that recently past and that family members name started with A or B or C? No...ok what about DEFGHIJKLMNOP? No...OK maybe a QRSTUVWXY or Z? and this person died of a heart condition or cancer or car accident. i think with my psychic abilities i could make millions.

[CliffStamp]

@joekawi That is amazing, all those letters are in my name. You should have a TV show.

[MidgardEagle]

The thing that makes me doubt psychic powers are real is that the people with "abilities" pretty much only uses them on stage and in fairs and back alley "psychic shoppes". Where are the psychic police interrogators? Where are the engineers and carpenters with the ability to bend matter with their will alone? Where are the ER surgeons with the ability to lay on hands to make hearts start?

In real life, people who possess extraordinary abilities USE them.

[sawmonkey]

Military background? They're British and fought wars for oh, the last millenium... What a larf!

[DKMontoya4670]

He asks an overweight woman whether or not she's had stomach problems. Daft. Also, isn't it true that everyone who dies always has a problem breathing or a problem with their "chests or lungs"?

[renaudldw]

lol richard at a medium...

[clwilliams222]

okay..ummm...i'm getting something, sort of something like a feeling of a spirit..something like this spirit had breasts...does anyone on the right side of the room understant and connect with this?

[michaelflorida48]

those silly, delusional humans, gotta love em!

[davis80smusic]

interesting! haven't heard of this before - love Dawkins! Thanks for posting - !

[WILLYBMONEY]

And then you die

[Mr88playmaker]

DNA serves the death blow to Evolution.

Einstein pointed to the nature and origin of symbolic information as one of the profound questions about the world as we know it. He could identify no means by which matter could bestow meaning to symbols. The clear implication is that symbolic information, or language, represents a category of reality distinct from matter and energy.

If Einstein is wrong, and code is matter, Dawkins needs to prove it and win the Nobel prize.

[Slybac]

You misunderstand DNA. DNA is material information that is has "meaning" through the sequential organization of base pairs of nucleotides. These pairs define RNA sequences, which in turn defines protein sequences, and so on. These relationships define both hereditary information itself, as well as the process through which that information is transmitted. In genetics, this is known as gene expression.

[Slybac]

By the way, you really shouldn't plagiarize. Both as a general rule, and especially if the content you're plagiarize is from The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center, because they rarely have any clue what they're talking about.

[ieBrazil]

good point.... just tell to atheists that Logics, its rules, are independent from matter and energy.

They'll yell like dogs. If they do not, then they'll use logics to prove they are wrong... which will prove they're wrong on thinking they are right.

Send them to read a dialog between Einstein and Tagore...

[Mr88playmaker]

Because the symbol/meaning association at the heart of language is purely non-physical, there is no way that a purely physical interaction can create it. Information and language always arise from a mind that is not locked into the physical realm, and is able to step outside physical constraints into the world of ideas to form the abstract associations needed for a language structure to exist.

[Mr88playmaker]

Richard Dawkins has vowed to never debate another Creationist again.

He dedicates himself now solely to writing books bashing religion.

[Mr88playmaker]

Dawkins is on a anger-driven quest to turn people against "religion" because he has no SCIENTIFIC basis to push his atheistic beliefs on the public.

At least Antony Flew was wise enough to admit the truth about DNA and in so doing, he saved his legacy. When Flew dies and his gray hairs go down into the grave, he will be remembered as a man who "went where the evidence lead."

Dawkins on the other hand, is running out of time. He will be fittingly remembered as a "flat earther."

[Mr88playmaker]

Prof. Antony Flew (Dawkin's hero) at least had enough sense to save his reputation by publicly switching his position. Flew, a once militant atheist philosopher, who spent more than 35 yrs of his life writing books and debating Creationists to argue for the side of Evolution, was overwhelmed by the evidence for Intelligent Design, particularly DNA code. He recently wrote a book that shook the foundations of atheist academia. Its title: "There IS a GOD." The book grieved Dawkins and made him mad

[Mr88playmaker]

Information is NOT matter.

Information is NOT energy.

Code originates in a mind.

Information = The communication or reception of KNOWLEDGE or INTELLIGENCE.

Code = Language

Language originates in thought / mind.

No escape for atheists. They were fed the lie of evolution so that even a 5 yr old child who believes in God "just because" knows MORE than they do. Pride before a fall.

[ieBrazil]

You're all wrong: taking Evolutionism as a fact (which I do take, because I'm an avarage intelligent person) does not imply that God does not exist, like atheists preach.

To something 'evolute', it needs to have some condition, some thing to start on etc.

Read you all "O home no Universo" by Brazilian priest... he argues on it.

[tallsmile28]

Tuesday night is seance night!!!! LOL

[Limeyankangler]

We are not bullying anybody, pauldougouba, we are only demonstrating that you believe things with no evidence. And when faced with evidence, you revert to name calling and bullying yourself. Yet with no proof to share with us you still presume you are right. Please show me evidence of any of the known gods existance for me to aknowledge your point of view! EVIDENCE?

[ieBrazil]

You're playing a game with wrong instruments, Limeware...: God's existence is not capable of bringing evidence, because if one brings you an evidence of God (or His existence), then it would not be God's, but any other think else.

Science has many 'presupositions' that does not have any evidence, but explains and help a lot. Period.

[HurricaneHeidi]

Scientists who believe in the Afterlife -

victor zammit. com / hall / scientists. htm

[PaulDougouba]

You Haters are pretty sad. You spend all of your time putting down religious people in very Negative and Crude ways. What is wrong with your self esteem that you have to put others down to make yourselves look good.

You people are no more than Maladjusted Self Loathing Bullies that get their jollies putting other people down to prop up your own sagging self esteem.

You Haters are no better than the KKK, the Skinheads, or the Nazi's. You are all of the same low level.

[HurricaneHeidi]

@PaulDougouba - I for one do not put down religious PEOPLE .... I question religious beliefs and I ask salient questions of religious people in an attempt to get them to think rationally. I do not hate anybody.

I do, however, fear and dislike ignorance and irrational beliefs. Many times throughout history such beliefs have led to bloodshed between religious groups. And since you mentioned the KKK - did you know that they considered themselves Christians and believed in scriptural bigotry?

[feshberd]

It's regrettable that one should feel that way, but anyway in which I look at it , religion is the culprit that sets these people up for pain.

You can tell a child that santa claus exists, knowing full well he doesn't *and I trust you don't believe in santa claus*

when the child eventually learns that your statement was a lie, you're the one responsible for his pain.

[feshberd]

*continuation of the first reply*

Knowledge is an invaluable resource, and should be treated as such, (especially amongst humans, as our greatest feature is our brain)

Unfortunately religion has set it self up to get trampled on by science.

For those who were hurt, they should be angry! they should be offended! but not towards science for tarnishing their illusion.

but against religion for making fools out of them.

[ElyaThorn]

I love that bit with Simon, Richard is amazing.

'Let me see if I feel him again!"

"Ok!" 1:50

Don't know why but that made me LOL. :D

[rainbowheydrich]

LOL this is great! xD

I love Richard for exposing these frauds. :)

"she had a lot of cats" so stereotypical, so fake. Oh, goodness! How can people swallow this garbage?

Now, of course, there are some people who actually believe in their "psychic powers" and "honour" them...but for every one of these there's 20 charlatans like the guy in the above video.

[ElyaThorn]

@rainbowheydrich Yes that was awesome and Richard's reply "She hated cats!" LOL

[rainbowheydrich]

@ElyaThorn

Lol yeah that was great! xD

Richard is so funny :D

[eddie2042]

'i feel.. ifeel.. i feel.. i feel..'

i feel like kicking you in the fucking face you asshole piece of shit fuck you

[Damion5488]

newcoyote,

Now that is something that you and I will never be able to be in agreement on. You can't prove your side and I can't prove mine. It comes down to belief or to personal experience. There is no earthly way that you can prove me wrong or vica verca.

[curea229]

If you're religious it can be proved that you have no proof. Unlike science.

[Damion5488]

Unrotunately a lott of the dead who haven't passed over and get any sort of spiritual connection with the living try and cling on to them or heave them with them. This casual talk about a stomach ailment which they may have had in the physical world before they died is plain silly. They don't have a stomach any more ... how could anyone 'sense' that of some one who is dead?

[newcoyote]

@Damion5488 The whole notion that anything is there after a person is dead is silly. If not, at the very least asserting there is something, with authority on specific conditions like the status of the "soul", is nothing short of absurd.

[TheBhoyJoe]

Why do the spirits only ever give their first initial? For a psychic fraudster, it must be a fucking nightmare having Dawkins sit at your table.

[JustusFriedolin]

@TheBhoyJoe i really hope that there will be more like dawkins going to those cold readers

[needparalegal]

Lol, as someone who has worked as a professional psychic I cringe when any sad ass psychic asks about a relative with an "E" name. Too bad Michael Crichton is dead, he might actually be able to break Dawkins skepticism. His logical approach to investigating psychic phenomena is hard to argue with. Read his book "Travels" it may make a believer out of those of you with open minds.

[IpsaPaphum]

They do have a talent, those psychics. Their patter, their chutzpah!

[Mr88playmaker]

"Mr88 - you, sir, are an idiot. You mistake the meaning of language..."

I come from a family of Academics, most of them linguistic professors. Biologists deal with matter; not language. The people enlisted by biochemists to crack the DNA code are linguists and cryptographers (code cracking experts). If DNA code were anything but language, the linguists would be teaching Latin, not cracking and explaining DNA code.

[Mr88playmaker]

DNA contains LANGUAGE.

Language requires: Thought [ A MIND ].

Information exists independently of its medium.

Matter does not add information to DNA.

Case closed.

Also, Darwin lived back in the time of Lincoln. No way to look inside a biological cell. He presumed that a cell was just a simple blob of

goo. NOW we've learned that a cell is made up of a universe of unspeakably sophisticated machines and systems governed by information and language.

[jjukil]

Keep up the useless copy/pasta, playmaker. You're only hurting your argument more and more. lmao

[jason23296]

a simple blob? you know that is not true. information governs

Governance does not govern information

Also Darwin never denied that cells did not contain "information" that is what is almost completely at the base of evolutionary thought

[Serenitude]

Mr88 - you, sir, are an idiot. You mistake the meaning of language, and then go on an unrelated tangent. If you post again, I shall tear you apart.

[Mr88pllaymaker]

I lied about my education. Sorry.

I was homeschooled as a kid, along with some brainwashing at Jesus Camp. At 12, I became a youth evangelist for my church, but was kicked out for public masturbation. I'm currently trying to enroll into college for bible studies, but these things called "SATs" are really hard.

I'll get back to you about DNA after I actually get a proper education. For now, you can trust me that it is language. Yep.

Anyways, I'm off to spew BS on some other videos. Later.

[HomoTriSapien]

If i die, i know the world becomes a bit worse (not much oc, since we are with billions).

But, aren't mediums concerned that when they die, the world becomes a bit better?

Cause, i am a soldier for a better world!

[carlnoel12]

Its just fascinating how you can manipulate humman mind make them believe in completely nonsense.

[chieftainette]

Yeah, you have to feel kind of bad for the "psychic" guy in the beginning. Hopefully he found a different job after this film came out.

[sanmal88]

right im feeling right, like right, like right bullshit, right :D

right

[Y0ts0]

i can this too. you work to hard. you don't get what you deserve. you are very loyal to friends/ your partner. almost everybody sees himself like this.

[BioBoosterSoldier]

man its almost embarrassing to watch this guy lol

[newkid2020]

Dawkins and the triple chin FTW!

[jrobl22357]

6:28 LOL

[Obelisk2290]

darren is awesome

[AxonZin]

LOL Dawkins completely destroys the "psychic" at the beginning.

[panzermarche]

Dawkins; Hitchens; Harris are the prophets of our post modern age. They challenges all theist to come out of their mediocrity and read Augustine; Anselm; Aquinas ;John Edwards; Pascal, ET AL.

[mugballeri3]

LOL....the guys trying to perform cold reading on Richard in the beginning is so funny.

[dvhlarson]

not everyone likes cats, that doesn't mean this man isn't psychic

[pinkdeath82]

But he was wrong on every account. Even when he gets a partial hit on a name(which was his second guess after failing miserably with the G) the rest is just so far off the point it is laughable. "she liked cats"... "uh, no she hated them"... "oh, uh... well.. damn, can we try this again?". Also, its always the person themselves who keep filling in the blanks instead of the so-called medium. It's just incredible people actually for this kind of stuff.

[megamarsvin]

Derren Brown is awesome. I love how in his documentary that even after he explains how cold reading works people still don't believe him and think he's secretly using magic or whatever. So amazing :D

[tubehajen]

that 'psychic' in the beginning is owned!

[theMAXILOPEZpsycho]

I just can't believe so many people believe in psycics. I don't know anyone (well one or two morons maybe) who gives it any credibility. For me, Dawkins always like to overplay the opposition, a kind of self-justification I suppose.

[mctagnutandfries]

Why not confound psychics by convincing all your friends and family to change their names to those beginning with 'X', 'Z' and 'Q'?

[magicbibledotcom]

Two modern geniuses. Brown and Dawkins, both fascinating.

[w0bbl3r]

yes. i love derren brown, and he is a better "psychic" than most of the ones who claim to be real.

this way of making money sickens me, and i have a couple of family members who keep going to mediums and such.

i am in the process of learning all about cold reading so i can show them that they are being robbed in the most sickening way

[BiduBR]

Oh shit, Derren Brown! =D

[veniceadriana]

This Hamilton-Parker joker is the funniest fraud I've seen yet!

Have to wonder - why can't these mediums ever ask the spirits for specific details such as birthdate and full name? Surely that would settle any sceptical doubts once and for all?

[w0bbl3r]

yeah. how can a spirit be just vague enough to offer an initial, then come through clear enough to say that they had cats, or whatever.

drives me crazy

[skeletor5656]

Old lady = Crazy cat lady?

Fat lady's friend with stomach person = Fat?

Shit, these people are weak.

[w0bbl3r]

i thought the 3 fatties together were probably either 3 sisters looking for a mother, or at the least related. they would obviously have a stomach psblem because of their diet. if they didnt have a stomach problem he couldnt go wrong, because they would obviously have "problems" with their weight, and be unhappy about that.

from what i have learned of cold reading, thats where those women led me, even before the guy started talking to them.

[w0bbl3r]

these people are all just vulnerable, which makes it evil to do this to them.

i have an aunt who lost her son last year, and she has started goin to these people, and i am trying to open her eyes, but she is quite religious, so she is quite adamant that these people are genuine, no matter what i say, or what proof i give her.

i HATE these charlatans.

if they really cared they would do it for free in their spare time. i certainly wouldnt dream of charging people for their greif

[CyberDeadly]

I agree, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[taylerdurden14]

Derren Brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!