Skeptic given a negitive review

[CFLarsen]

Thank you all. I am most pi$$ed off that the reporter just got things wrong. However, I am so grateful that you, my true friends and the friends of reason have come to my aid.

OK.. to see what a monster I am, take a look at:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/499742/

Are you the only Australian without John Farnham hair?






(scurries away)

 

[Richard]

Are you the only Australian without John Farnham hair?
(scurries away)

That was almost 20 years ago! Ha.. they put heaps of stuff in my hair in the TV studio. God I look young...... sigh..... Still have the hair, not so dark.

 

[Senex]

That was some pretty impressive prehistoric paper animals you made. That rascal moose who ate the birthday children's names kept trying to upstage you the entire time but once he had no text to eat you wooped him.

That was fun to watch. How old do you think the woman in the sweater is today? Is she married? Do you still keep in touch?

 

[Richard]

That was fun to watch. How old do you think the woman in the sweater is today? Is she married? Do you still keep in touch?

Marie Van Maaren. No idea how old she is, no idea if she is married.

I met her once and that is the video. She was very nice to me as you can see as were all at the studio.

THE EARLY BIRD SHOW

10 Network / 1984-89

A Saturday morning kids show featuring a mix of cartoons, music and guests and so on and hosted by Daryl Cotton, Marie Van Maaren and Marty Monster (a man in a furry Monster costume).

 

[The Great Hairy One]

Hey Rich, you are talking about the Daily Telegraph here.

Let that sink in for a moment. The Daily Telegraph. Not exactly a pillar of truth, elightenment and research, eh?

Cruddy article, BTW. You should put something in the next mag about it.

Cheers,
TGHO

 

[Mobyseven]

See! We have morons in Australia, too.

M.

Like there was ever any doubt...

/me sighs, and procrastinates for another five minutes regarding the choice of legal homework or bed.

 

[Lonewulf]

An entire continent populated by criminals that were so undesirable, they couldn't even be subjected into the British navy actually has morons?

Wow.

 

[Richard]

BTW, the item in the newspaper itself was entitled;

"Tragedy of scoffing sceptics".

A rebuttal will appear on the Australian Skeptics web site soon.

Richard 'unfeeling monster' Saunders

 

[Geckko]

This journalist seems to be consumed by the religious angle.

 

[treble_head]

Thank you all. I am most pi$$ed off that the reporter just got things wrong. However, I am so grateful that you, my true friends and the friends of reason have come to my aid.

OK.. to see what a monster I am, take a look at:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/499742/

You beast! using something fun like origami to push your "prehistoric" notions of evolution on the poor kids!

 

[JeffJ]

Richard 'unfeeling monster' Saunders

Not so fast with that one...
No mere mortal can fold paper like that. Especially not into those ultra tiny sized animals. Somethings wrong with you... the work of the devil most likely.

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

This dude is an idiot but he has a point: I would hate to decide for someone else what's best for them but I believe it would be kinder to let people who already think they've been visited by a dead family member to let them think that.

How do you tell someone who (one example) is convinced the Oklahoma junkyard video ghost is his late wife and who's shown it to their young sons that it's a GI Joe doll?

Yeah, psychics and mediums don't bring "closure" or comfort to friends and family members like they claim to but once someone's latched onto that and taking comfort from that, you can't break their hearts once again by pulling that out from under their feet, too.

 

[Orangutan]

Thank you all. I am most pi$$ed off that the reporter just got things wrong. However, I am so grateful that you, my true friends and the friends of reason have come to my aid.

OK.. to see what a monster I am, take a look at:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/499742/

Quote from the start of that clip, "Gee you're clever aren't you?" Said with little enthusiasm. Well I loled anyway!.

Seriously good stuff, If you are getting under the skin of idiots like this at least you are getting noticed.

Ha! Marty, I saw him getting beaten up by a kangaroo once! lol.

2nd edit, your stuff is available at amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_g...field-keywords=aussiegami&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Thank you all. I am most pi$$ed off that the reporter just got things wrong. However, I am so grateful that you, my true friends and the friends of reason have come to my aid.

OK.. to see what a monster I am, take a look at:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/499742/

From the way you worded this, I was waiting for that strange creature in the back to attack or something.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Here's what I posted,

Coming from a country where we are in a war because the press and the public and many of our leaders simply did not question what they were being told, I'd say your myopic view of skepticism is unfortunate.

The goal of the skeptical community is to promote critical thinking. It is to teach children how to determine if a shadow on a hillside or a stain on a wall is just that or something more.

What would be your reply if a religious leader accused people here of worshiping graven images? What do you say to the person who traded their real medicines for a quack cure for HIV? It's OK, it gives them hope? Does it matter if we have parents refusing to vaccinate their children because they believe in some giant conspiracy between government and pharmaceutical corporations to make a profit at the expense of their new baby? Or if we direct research dollars to look for a connection between autism and vaccines long after the research shows it is time to look for another cause, vaccines have been ruled out?

There is sadness with death. Belief in an afterlife is comforting. When people exploit that grief, offering to speak with the deceased for huge fees that skeptics care to get involved. It might mean the loss of a comforting fantasy. But the cost of not being skeptical, of not teaching critical thinking, can be thousands more deaths in a war only a few people thought was needed, from disease that could have been prevented by a simple vaccine, or from a treatable disease like HIV where people forgo real treatment for snake oil someone created after a dream.


I hope they post it.

 

[athon]

Thank you all. I am most pi$$ed off that the reporter just got things wrong. However, I am so grateful that you, my true friends and the friends of reason have come to my aid.

OK.. to see what a monster I am, take a look at:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/499742/

That's your book?? I have one of your dinosaurs (well, folded from that book) on my shelf. A girl I was dating folded it for my last birthday and stuck it on a card. I picked it from that book!!

Wow. How about that.

Athon

 

[my_wan]

Hey they published my comments to.

 

[Foster Zygote]

It is interesting to note that the sceptics here are happy to credit themselves with a gift they decry as fraudulent in others: the ability to see into the future.

WTF is he talking about? This whole article strikes me as an act of ego masturbation. What a hack.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

WTF is he talking about? This whole article strikes me as an act of ego masturbation. What a hack.

According to him,

After all, how else could someone predict what good or bad is likely to come of belief in something miraculous, even if it is not true?

So apparently he doesn't understand that if you predict an outcome based on evidence it is not the same as predicting an outcome based on the fantasy that you magically can.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

There are some darn good comments there folks. I commend you all. Mine are under Ginger Smith. I wasn't sure I wanted my real surname out there.

Nice to see Kiless either lurking here or keeping up on the news there. I met her at TAM5. Real nice person.