Dan Aykroyd and the Crystal Skull

Polaris said:
People believe that reptiles from outer space were behind 9/11 and that walking around with a frikkin' stick(!) can lead you to gold.

If you can come up with it, someone somewhere will believe it.
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I believe that.
 
JohnG said:
At least it isn't homeopathic vodka.
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The proportions of that would be equivalent to one molecule of vodka in a sphere of water the size of the solar system.

Aykroyd should somehow be confronted with the Million Dollar Challenge. He's a serious setback for critical thinking.
 
While the diamond filtering makes for a cool-sounding step in the process, it wouldn't actually affect the vodka would it? I would think that carbon in the crystalline form of diamonds would be unable to hook up with anything else, thus being completely unable to filter anything out. But that's just my basic recollection from chem 101 30 years ago. Anybody reading this who knows more chemistry than I do?
 
CORed said:
Their filters are so crappy they have to run it through three times to do any good.
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Double and triple filtering systems are pretty commonplace in purification setups. I don't know why, but it's common enough I assume it has more to do with the sequencing of the process than the quality of the filters.
 
Gosh... I had a hard time getting through the whole video.

How can these people say all that stuff with a straight face? Almost every word was almost ridiculously wrong.

The really sad part is.. if I actually drank, drinking vodka from a human skull would actually be pretty cool and might make a neat gift for some of my friends that do drink. After this video though, I would feel far too stupid buying it.
 
Polaris said:
People believe that reptiles from outer space were behind 9/11 and that walking around with a frikkin' stick(!) can lead you to gold.

If you can come up with it, someone somewhere will believe it.
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It is like a correlate of the porn rule ("anything you can think up, somebody already posted some porn vid opn the internet on it") : anything crazy you can make up, somebody will believe it firmly as real.
 
So it's not a joke by Aykroyd, he actually believes this stuff? Sad, but it might be even sadder that he is trying to profit off it.
 
Aykroyd has been a proponent of that kind of stuff for a while. Apparently ghostbusters was based partially on his own ideas life after death.
 
RobDegraves said:
Gosh... I had a hard time getting through the whole video.

How can these people say all that stuff with a straight face? Almost every word was almost ridiculously wrong.
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Because he's an actor?

The really sad part is.. if I actually drank, drinking vodka from a human skull would actually be pretty cool and might make a neat gift for some of my friends that do drink. After this video though, I would feel far too stupid buying it.
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I thought it was pretty a pretty funny commercial, with Aykroyd piling on the woo so thick you'd have to use a bulldozer to get through it. A bit too long though.

Now, I'm assuming it was all an act. If he actually believes that stuff, then I'm just stunned ...
 
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For those of us of a certain age it probably doesn't help Aykroyd's cause that in his SNL days he was famous for commercial parodies like Super Bass-O-Matic and his Irwin Mainway character, who used to sell things like bags of broken glass to children. Even if he wasn't promoting woo beliefs and was simply selling overpriced alcohol (in an admittedly cool bottle), I'd still have trouble taking him seriously. That grin he has through most of the Crystal Skull advert tends to make me think he's having trouble taking himself seriously, too.
 
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I thought it was generally known Aykroyd believed in the supernatural.
 
When I first watched this, I thought Dan Aykroyd was doing some kind of joking skit, then when the other guy appeared and I realized this was a commercial, I started to wonder what was up with Aykroyd's part in this. As others have pointed out here, Aykroyd appears to actually have some woo beliefs, but I wonder if maybe he was just getting well paid for his part?

Inquiring minds want to know...
 
Moon-Spinner said:
When I first watched this, I thought Dan Aykroyd was doing some kind of joking skit, then when the other guy appeared and I realized this was a commercial, I started to wonder what was up with Aykroyd's part in this. As others have pointed out here, Aykroyd appears to actually have some woo beliefs, but I wonder if maybe he was just getting well paid for his part?

Inquiring minds want to know...
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He has some woo beliefs? He's a symphony of woo beliefs.
 
This is from Wiki,

Aykroyd considers himself a Spiritualist, stating that:
I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years... Loads of people have seen [spirits], heard a voice or felt the cold temperature. I believe that they are between here and there, that they exist between the fourth and fifth dimension, and that they visit us frequently.[6]
 
GT/CS said:
This is from Wiki,

Aykroyd considers himself a Spiritualist, stating that:
I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years... Loads of people have seen [spirits], heard a voice or felt the cold temperature. I believe that they are between here and there, that they exist between the fourth and fifth dimension, and that they visit us frequently.[6]
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Then Aykroyd gets failing grades in critical or skeptical thinking skills. It's as if he didn't care what "Spiritualist" beliefs were true or false. But really, it's about family loyalty. His father was a woo, and doubting his family beliefs is betrayal of his family.

We have powerful instincts preventing us from betraying our family ... instincts which almost always overrule rational thinking.
 
From a 1997 Skeptical Inquirer article:
... the actor Dan Aykroyd was presented in absentia the Council's "Snuffed Candle" Award. Aykroyd is host of the new television program Psi Factor and has been a long-time promoter of all sorts of paranormal claims. The award recognized Aykroyd "for encouraging credulity, presenting pseudoscience as genuine, and contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry."

http://web.archive.org/web/20070205101412/http://www.csicop.org/si/9705/news.html
 
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