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Coast to Coast AM - Tonight's show description making me cringe

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So on Coast to Coast AM this evening, some guy named Glenn Kimball will be discussing "how life appeared on Earth" and "the mysteries of DNA".

I looked up his credentials and it seems that he doesn't have any credentials with regard to either of the topic of life appearing on Earth or "the mysteries of DNA". Apparently he has a BA in journalism and an MA in communications.

It makes me really angry that people like him claim any kind of higher knowledge with respect to any kind of science.
 
I used to listen to that show a lot years ago. Now I just get irritated. It is on my radio (I always leave it on AM because I have heard Freebird enough) and it is on during my quickie smoke breaks. At least this guy ain't RC Hoagland.
 
teedot said:
So on Coast to Coast AM this evening, some guy named Glenn Kimball will be discussing "how life appeared on Earth" and "the mysteries of DNA".

I looked up his credentials and it seems that he doesn't have any credentials with regard to either of the topic of life appearing on Earth or "the mysteries of DNA". Apparently he has a BA in journalism and an MA in communications.

It makes me really angry that people like him claim any kind of higher knowledge with respect to any kind of science.
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Well, Coast-to-Coast isn't exactly where I'd go to hear any kind of science.

I listen every now and then just to get an idea of what kind of woos are floating around out there. I love it when somebody calls in who's so nuts that even Noorey can't handle them. :)
 
Seems Noory's polite indifference pranked the prankster on that call. :)

Regarding the OP, I so disagree. Your proclaiming 'science' the only real arbiter of 'truth' is simply your opinion. Of course it's not, but, okay. And any 'anger' you develop comes not from genuine hatred for seemingly 'unworthy' radio show guests, but because when you were 10 years old you had a pony named Gus and it got run over by a logging truck and...:eek:

As for the show itself, Noory surely isn't a rocket scientist nor does he always 'get it', but he is pretty harmless and he has a good voice and demeanor. And he mostly knows he really is just a radio host. IMO the show is now just boring. Maybe one out of 10 guests is intelligent enough, righteous enough and interesting enough to actually deserve being on the radio.

At one time I would have been surprised to learn how unpopular it is with this forum's members. Instead I was surprised to learn that although the forum is pretty 'skeptical' about a lot of things, 'conventional wisdom' (save religion) isn't one of them. C2C can go pound sand! ;)
 
I love Coast to Coast,
I leave my radio on all night because I have trouble sleeping.
I found that when I started listening to the show it reduced my stress and worrying;
nothing in my life could be worse than reports of a giant comet hurtling to the earth.
 
Even Hoagland can be entertaining sometimes, as long as you understand that what he is selling is nonsense. I've never been able to figure out though where his initial (as in his CBS days) credibility came from.
 
HarryHenderson said:
Seems Noory's polite indifference pranked the prankster on that call. :)

Regarding the OP, I so disagree. Your proclaiming 'science' the only real arbiter of 'truth' is simply your opinion. Of course it's not, but, okay. And any 'anger' you develop comes not from genuine hatred for seemingly 'unworthy' radio show guests, but because when you were 10 years old you had a pony named Gus and it got run over by a logging truck and...:eek:

As for the show itself, Noory surely isn't a rocket scientist nor does he always 'get it', but he is pretty harmless and he has a good voice and demeanor. And he mostly knows he really is just a radio host. IMO the show is now just boring. Maybe one out of 10 guests is intelligent enough, righteous enough and interesting enough to actually deserve being on the radio.

At one time I would have been surprised to learn how unpopular it is with this forum's members. Instead I was surprised to learn that although the forum is pretty 'skeptical' about a lot of things, 'conventional wisdom' (save religion) isn't one of them. C2C can go pound sand! ;)
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Maybe not on the benefit or otherwise of playing a flat back 4 or going with 3 central defenders and a 5 man mid field with 2 wingbacks but on the subject of DNA I would hazard a guess it's the best place to start.
 
Talkie,
It sounds to me like Harry is referring to truth on a cosmic moral plane. For instance, is freedom better than slavery. While the answer would seem very obvious (to me) it can't necessarily be proven through scientific analysis.
 
Just last night I was in the chat room of a pro-psychic web site. One of the others in the room found out that I was a fan of James Randi and started in on how he keeps "moving the bar" on the MDC. She said "people have proven their abilities to his requirements, and he just raises the bar, and denies that they passed his test."

I asked her if she could tell me who any of these people supposedly were, and she sais "I don't recall the name, but one of them talked about it on Coast-To-Coast!"

I almost asked "Was this before or after the guest who claimed they had given birth to Bigfoot's baby?" But I refrained.

To Noory's credit, though: He seems to have woken up and smelled the coffee regarding Sylvia Browne, and he called her on her nonsense when she screwed up about the Sago mining disaster live on his show.
 
Noory is definitely less of a true believer than Art Bell was. At least he gives that impression. He has also broadened the field a bit by having actual scientists on sometimes to discuss something in the news. In Art Bell's time, Hoagland was the only "scientist" who got any air time. Of course as Hoagland is the planet's only "torsion" physicist, you can understand why. :)
 
Agreed, Chris. I posted that sentiment here not long after Noory took over the show.

A teen-aged (or younger) boy had called the show and talked about things he thought he had "seen."

Bell would have just taken this and run with it, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear Noory urging the kid to have his vision checked before assuming that whatever he had seen was "real."
 
RSLANCASTER,
I was impressed when he had on an actual geologist to talk about the Iceland volcano. For Art, that would have definitely been a Hoagland Trip Into Hyper Dimensional Physics(tm) kind of thing.
 
Coast to Coast is kind of the electronic equivalent of telling stories around a campfire at night.

Whether the stuff they talk about on that show is fact or not is of secondary importance, as long as its an interesting subject told well. And like campfire stories, some people will believe it, others won't.
 
When I worked the 7pm to 7am shift I tended to be awake at 2am even on my days off. Not much else on the radio at that hour, so Coast to Coast was what I ended up listening to. As Rogue said, it's really a ghost stories around the campfire thing. It appeals to the 8 year old in all of us. Entertaining at times, but not serious.
 
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