Reason Special interview with bioethicist Tom Shakespeare

[rokyfox]

He's coming to my school tomorrow

[niriop]

Guy has achondroplasic dwarfism, get over it, and listen to what he has to say...Jesus...

[TheTrueHack3r]

MEGAMIND :D

[angelodasad]

he is an alien

[candyazz28]

his barber must be happy. I bet he has a time finding a hat.

[besmart78]

dam a super human all that thinking

[ChristopherMcCandles]

he must be really smart

[kenny8331]

he looks smart

[pistolpistol100]

What the crap?? It's an alien or something!!! Head nup nup farzop

[Mikej1592]

he makes sense and is very articulate while doing so I got to respect that.

[Nades129]

holy shit! looki dem lemons there!

[maddk0z]

big head

[rajasmasala]

narrative reason is not new. That whole mythography business is about it.

[UndiminishSomewhere]

He's completley right - as the comments here show! We all tend to think in pictures and stories. People have mentioned cartoon and superman here. That's the point guys!!!!

[ladiesman391]

He's right on the money.

[marsxmu]

One must not call him a midget or dwaf as that would be offensive: yawn. Anyway, he talks a lot of tosh, as usual.

[bigredbmw29]

tommy is actually a really nice bloke i have known tommy for a long time since i was about 12 am 30 now .......

[ThennyDlux]

bioethicist... don't you mean eugenicist. This has more to do with Nazi race science than ethics.

[kenny8331]

@ThennyDlux whats wrong with practicing eugenics?

[frorange888]

@kenny8331 I guess there's nothing wrong with practicing eugenics. It has been discredited as an idea but you can practice it if you want I suppose...

[frorange888]

@kenny8331 Confronting eugenics: Does the now discredited practice have relevance to today's technology?  This is the title of an article taken from amednews.com

[frorange888]

@kenny8331 ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/07/­09/prsa0709.htm

[frorange888]

@kenny8331 eugenicsarchive . org

[LegendaryGIR]

...Big Figure

...Tall Order

...

[MatthewMcS]

not gona lie, didnt listen to a word he said, watched his head that wwhole video.

[Terza94]

i know what u mean,i did 2

[ketanovas]

Damn... this looks like a... human head...!

[legaultblackheart]

OH MY GOD HIS HEAD

[MidnightRayn]

yes he's a midget.. wtf are stupid people doing here? seriously how did they even find this?

please, intelligent people stop linking the morons it's become offensive!

[MackleJack]

see? E.T. does exist, idiots.

[ruderitalin]

why is his head so big? is he a midget or somthing?

[yis2]

He definetly has BIG and LOADS OF ideas :)

[VCat2006]

Maybe the uncle had super smoking resistance genes. Statistics are only valid for the types they apply to, that's why samples should be representative and large enough to be significant.

That said, smoking tobacco stinks and causes wrinkles.

[gaygaygayyy]

um dude what is that thing and what is it saying

[villasrat]

brainy bastard

[jerry27syd]

Is he a super human or something?

[RichTrunks]

What do you get when you guzzel down sweets, eating as much as an elephant eats!! damn funny

[chance90064]

Isn't he one of superman's arch enemy's?

[mamolian]

oh man i laughed..

My first thought was check out the fuckin brain on that guy :o

[MrCassata]

For all of you who were wondering about his head, he's a midget. <-- not exactly sure if that's a correct term so pardon any offense.

[FrancisSandow]

I think the accepted term is "dwarf".

[partypete1313]

umpa lumpa wud also have been accepted, 3 points

[SultanBeatz]

roflmao, man the comments on this channel should be televised

[Avalikia]

The roots of the word "midget" imply that you are talking about half a person - which is offensive because little people are whole people even though they are small people. "Dwarf" simply means small so it's much more acceptable, though lately "little person" is becoming the standard.

[DrakeMagnum]

These are very reasonable and accessible points he is making.

[whitephillyboy13]

hes like a swan i could stare at him forever...

[superfisto]

Lovely

[bogieman987]

look at his head he must be very very smart

[amozoness6]

That guy...made some great points.

[amidnightfire]

would i be considered an asshole if i laughed hysterically throughout this video?

[Keylimedelight]

Head aside, good ponts.

[miker140]

O_O I must paint you....

[qwerty7546]

jimmy neutron

[bored24i7]

Damn his head is big

[nickmusic12]

i dont know what hes talkig about but i think he looks funny

[javierenchina]

I was waiting for the alien to burst out of his forehead...but it didn't happen

[hfigo]

lol. mtv cartoons rock!

[PopeColbert]

i wonder if he has telekinesis powers

[janezbboy]

god damn what skull!!! how strong is that machine?..triple core inside? 5mhz?

[Wowgeek1337]

omg he gotta be smarT! XD

[neilzep]

what did he say??/damn the head!!

[Booshibonton]

He probably had Hydrocephalus as a child or something ;P No reason to think there's any extra brain in that skull... Either Hydrocephalus or Dwarfism...

[cookman283]

More than likely Dwarfism, note the relative length of his upper-arm and lower-arm in relation to his torso.

[victorapplesmash]

Don't play chess with this guy.

[Booshibonton]

Why not?

[desmondo2006]

Because he is John

[shadmo328]

holy crap, that skull!

[winxniw]

It appears he is distinct in stature, or whatever the pc term for that is.

[ripple1983]

I'm going to start using that one for myself :-) That's a good one.

[Jasonisabeast]

I zoned out for a sec and just watched his head.

[ZerozPk]

jesus big ass head

[catsgomeowmeowmeow]

SEE thats what hapnnes when u do too much of your homework

[whitephillyboy13]

hes a human alien hybrid...

[UncleKennybobs]

He's Pinky, he's Pinky and The Brain, brain brain brain brain BRAIN.

[sh8oony]

ET...

[spentfromnz]

I think the point here is that humans, for the most part, are fundamentally irrational. A lot people reading this will be INTJs and so tend to disagree, but taking the population as a whole this is probably true.

[azteck]

well yeah individually not everybody is like that, but as a whole you're right it is probably true, can't disagree with that.

[NicNasty1981]

Dam im one of these people that likes facts and numbers. I remember when i was just a teenager trying to sell people PCs just by quoting them numbers. Took me a while to work people out. I think i was a bit autistic but im completly different now. Been working people out ever since and i think im pretty well grounded

[chadaniels]

He must be very intelligent...

[Booshibonton]

On what information did you base this conclusion?

[spentfromnz]

He based it on "loads of examples" ...apparently.

[bitRAKE]

We need to give important decisions proportionate time to properly evaluate them. Most people can be manipulated if forced into decisions in short time - does not matter if the manipulation is emotional or 'fact' based.

[rippanation]

If we spend our time wondering on the possibilities of what may be rather than the end result then surely we shall miss out on the great experiment of life itself after all once our own personal flames have gone what do we have afterwards?mmmmm

[chris3443]

I'd say anyone with an education WOULD, in fact, consider the statistics before smoking (to use his example) or doing anything else potentially dangerous.

[crbrs20]

he has a big head

[VeracityMedia]

He has Achondroplasia.

[zx1011]

that may very well be the case however as a statement "he has a big head" ergo notwithstanding the reason for the head being of a larger than normal size, the statement remains true and => should not be commented down....

[pencapchew42]

Dwarfism.