James Randi Lecture at NASA 3/12

JREF DVD332
Full James Randi lecture at NASA. Randi talks about all things woo, the million dollar challenge, and homeopathy.

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[poppler1234]

people you have to stop arguing about phds. no one cares whether or not you have one or whether or not you're offended by randi's joke.

holy hell , you're adults. get over it. -_-

[Skabbe1]

As someone said, you're a prefect example of what Randi is talking about.

You completely fail to see his point because you're blindly trying to "defend" your title against an attack that isn't being made.

Why do you think Maddox brought Randi along to investigate Benvenistes research about water memory?

Also, you might want to see who's the president of the JREF, and once you have, ask him if he's also offended by what Randi says.

[ninman58]

Lol, I have a PhD, and I've met a lot of people with PhD's and that's so true, we NEVER say either of those phrases.

[09205479428]

oh no ! Randi is now with the "Institution". Now everything he will tell will be ASSUMED TRUE. yaiks, what a paradox !

:-)

[supermembrax69]

@blehblehbleh86 Yeah you're right, but I wasn't talking about Science I was talking about the "main stream science", and that's an institution. (or a kind of family made out of scientists judging each other and waiting in the dark to mock each other about there work in order to walk over them) main stream science = scientific family mocking each other and protecting there budgets.

E.G: Cold Fusion + MIT => Check it out and you will see the scientific method that MIT used to discredit cold fusion

[shkotay]

@blehblehbleh86 Dude :D Keep pushing this basic stuff. Thats the whole idea of science in a few sentences and I wholeheartedly agree :D I would only add that theories must have have multiple independent consistent lines of confirming evidence. People cannot be led around by the nose by tricksters or blind men. Ppl should get Randi's message.

[blehblehbleh86]

@supermembrax69 Science is not an institution. It is a methodology. It is the practical application of critical thought. A theory, in scientific terms, is an idea that has been proven by evidence. Please don't get confused by the words.  If something can not be explained by science, chances are there is nothing to be explained. Don't fall for the 'woo-woo' rationalisation that some things are beyond science - that's bullshit.

[jubulalau]

@MieluChitaristu LOL, it was a joke.

You actually thought he was beeing serious, fucking lulz killer.

[psycoelement]

science is often wrong thats what science is about, its about creating a theory and then testing it by as many ways possible to see if that said theory MAYBE is correct, it is forever revising and building upon itself.thats where the BLIND belief in creationism,god,paranormal etc fall flat.

[supermembrax69]

And just something else... It's not because we called it "dark ages" that we solved the problem.

I believe that, deep down, we are still the same people as 500years ago. We have better technology and better knowledge but it doesn't change what we are. History has a bad habit of repeating itself!

So what people did during the Dark Ages can still happen today! We called our age the modern age! Does it mean that we are modern men? People still believe in Creationism and other strange theories!

[supermembrax69]

I'm not a skilled linguist and it's easy to get me wrong!

I was only suggesting that people stop being blinded by main stream science!

Today science is like a religion. People believe it blindly. If the main scientists say something, everyone will believe it!

That's a mistake because science can sometime be very wrong! We should not close our mind on some subjects just because science doesn't agree!

As long as a theory is a theory, it means that we don't know if it's true! That's what I meant