Richard Saunders at TAM 6 on Bringing Critical Thinking to Schools

Australian skeptic, podcaster, author, T.V. personality, and professional origamist Richard Saunders recorded at The Amaz!ng Meeting 7. Saunders discusses the origami Pigasus and dowsing as a model for teaching critical thinking to students.

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[UnOxonien]

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

[ofpfury]

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

[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.

[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.

[ThirdRomeAquilo]

@tekproxy hahahaha wow

[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.

[FHomeBrew]

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

[happyhappy85]

Bit of a dick isn't he?

[tekproxy]

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

[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]

@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.