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Science, with its rational methodology and fact-based process, undermines the American way of life
Category: Humor
Posted on: March 17, 2009 12:00 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | March 17, 2009 12:04 PM
Stewart and Colbert have been on fire the last month.
Possibly the most honest of all "journalists" over the period (if not much longer).
Even if they are fake.
Posted by: CS | March 17, 2009 12:07 PM
Doesn't work from Canada. It must have been the Science minister that censored it!
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | March 17, 2009 12:10 PM
I'd "download" this to my magic song-brick if I had one. I don't. Don't trust 'em. The invisible sky-man puts the songs he wants me to hear directly into my brain. Right now it's that fucking narwhal song.
Posted by: Alex | March 17, 2009 12:21 PM
All those confounding, confusing, coercive, facts.
Posted by: claw | March 17, 2009 12:24 PM
to #2, hey DON'T question him about his religion, damnit! :P
you can't expect a man who is in charge of science to want to fund science that contradicts his magic books on god and chyropractic.
"Canada has narwhals, they're swiming in the ocean causing a commotion cause they are so awesome."
Posted by: Jeremy | March 17, 2009 12:31 PM
Canadian mirror: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip150546
(Starts about 3 minutes in)
Posted by: Alex | March 17, 2009 12:35 PM
"magic song-brick" wins the thread. Thanks for the laugh Sven.
Posted by: Kris | March 17, 2009 12:40 PM
No kidding. I am engaged in an deep comment-back-and-forth with a user named "Hercules Mulligan" who is trying to tell me that real science is only observation of "known FACTS and physical EVIDENCE."
He also says
"This is playing guessing-games, trying to avoid the conclusion that GOD might be at the root of life's origins. If origin of life is NOT what evolution is all about, then how come it has been used as the tool by which God is reasoned into non-existence?"
Anyone game to enter the fray?
see the comments on the following link --->http://www.tompainesghost.com/2009/03/four-horseman.html
Posted by: stogoe | March 17, 2009 12:41 PM
I'm going to throw my magic song brick at you for that. Let sleeping earworms lie, etc.
Posted by: Kris | March 17, 2009 12:42 PM
No kidding. I am engaged in a heavy comment-back-and-forth with a blogger named "Hercules Mulligan" who is trying to tell me that real science is only observation of "known FACTS and physical EVIDENCE."
He also says the study of evolution boils down to "playing guessing-games, trying to avoid the conclusion that GOD might be at the root of life's origins. If origin of life is NOT what evolution is all about, then how come it has been used as the tool by which God is reasoned into non-existence?"
Anyone game to enter the fray?
see the comments on the following link --->http://www.tompainesghost.com/2009/03/four-horseman.html
Posted by: Alex | March 17, 2009 12:45 PM
I think the Sci-Blog servers, err, I mean, magic thinking boxes, are acting up again. Posting is slow.
Posted by: Mark | March 17, 2009 12:50 PM
Canadians, please go here: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip150546
Posted by: Leigh Williams | March 17, 2009 1:09 PM
I've thought for quite a while that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the best journalists we have in the country. Stewart in particular has proven of late that what started out as "fake" journalism has become the real thing.
What if Jon Stewart, instead of John King, Interviewed Cheney
Today's Headline: Santelli Plays Down AIG Outrage . . . Jon Stewart, Where Are You?
No wonder the 20-somethings get their news from Comedy Central.
Posted by: NewEnglandBob
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March 17, 2009 1:09 PM
Give a golden pimento award to Jon Oliver, science reporter!
Posted by: The Stumbling Block | March 17, 2009 1:19 PM
I want an embryo! Can I get a designer one, with like... sparklies and glitter and stuff?
Posted by: CodeSculptor | March 17, 2009 1:25 PM
Heck, they won me with the technique for x-ray glasses... I'm taking bloody sharpies to all my specs right now, before I go outside onto the Manhattan streets for lunch.
Posted by: Stacy | March 17, 2009 1:28 PM
Obama is responsible for ending the war on science, "A war we were actually winning!" - LMAO :-)
Posted by: AnthonyK
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March 17, 2009 1:30 PM
Very funny. Incidentally, I hope no one missed Jon Stewart's magisterial takedown of Jim Cramer, NSNBC's "Mad Money" host? Google, then grock.
Posted by: mothra | March 17, 2009 1:55 PM
@#3 for your excellent 'Barb' imitation yesterday: 'Walking on sunshine, ohhh, walking on sunshine,ohhh, and don't it feel good."
/runs away VERY fast.
Posted by: LtStorm | March 17, 2009 2:06 PM
I want free-range fetuses.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 17, 2009 2:43 PM
"It's not either/or, science and faith can coexist." Jon is indeed a master of dry humor.
Posted by: WTFinterrobang
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March 17, 2009 3:07 PM
I'll have a 6-pack of embryos, a free-range fetus burger and a night with Jon Stewart, please.
Posted by: cactusren | March 17, 2009 3:52 PM
I really don't know what I would do without the Daily Show. This was complete win, and the horrible impersonation of Bush with a British accent just made it better.
Posted by: amstrad | March 17, 2009 3:53 PM
@#3, Sven
omfg I just spewed coffee on my laptop... thanks...
Posted by: Basset_Fan
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March 17, 2009 3:59 PM
Cramer's appearance on the Daily Show was both classic and uncomfortable. Stewart didn't back down a bit and Cramer got his ass handed to him on a plate.
Posted by: Ted Dahlberg | March 17, 2009 4:34 PM
I really should start watching The Daily Show. Oh, and anyone not already listening to it might want to check out John Oliver's podcast (with Andy Zaltzman) The Bugle. Audio newspaper for a visual world.
Posted by: daveau | March 17, 2009 4:36 PM
Who would have thought that Jon Stewart would be the one to take up the Tim Russert mantle?
Posted by: Kel | March 17, 2009 5:08 PM
"magic song brick" has got to be the best name for an iPod ever. Hopefully it catches on as a meme.
Posted by: stogoe | March 17, 2009 5:12 PM
Why would anyone take up the mantle of that compliant, asslicking hack? Comparing Stewart to Russert is like, well, a sportscar competing against a pile of bricks in a road race.Posted by: SLW13 | March 17, 2009 5:21 PM
Between 2000 and today, Jon Stewart has consistently delivered moments that make me want to have his babies.
Posted by: daveau | March 17, 2009 5:22 PM
I guess I was fooled by Russert's interview preparation and unwillingness to let guests sidestep questions. Stoopid me!
Posted by: ndt | March 17, 2009 5:35 PM
Apparently you missed Russert's "interview" of Dick Cheney where Cheney told bald-faced lies and Russert didn't ask follow-ups on any of them. Russert may have been a real journalist at one time in the distant past, but he was a compliant, asslicking hack by the end of his career.
Posted by: daveau | March 17, 2009 5:42 PM
So, to summarize: Tim Russert was an "asslicking hack."
Jeez, he was still head and shoulders above anyone else in the last 25 years.
Posted by: Libeqrat | March 17, 2009 8:51 PM
It's not either / or. Science and faith can coexist.
--------Jon Stewart
Well, hey, if Mary Matalin and James Carville can cohabitate, I suppose anything's possible (though not necessarily desirable).
Yes, we can act as rational human beings most of the time, and still cling to our comforting pet superstitions without their killing us, but the coexistence will always entail cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: FlameDuck | March 18, 2009 12:51 AM
#30 If you think that's good, google for Jon Stuart on Crossfire.
Posted by: clinteas | March 18, 2009 1:19 AM
John Oliver irritates me at times......Although the magic sound brick was a classic !
Posted by: Jha Khosla | March 18, 2009 2:44 AM
See how (in)accurate Jim Cramer's Mad Money recommendations for Google stock were... Cramer's stock calls shown visually on the chart over a two-year period -
http://www.stocktagger.com/2007/07/jim-cramer-google-inc-goog-track-record.html
Posted by: Peter Ashby | March 18, 2009 6:50 AM
Hey guys when you have finished with John Oliver can we have him back please? and Hugh Laurie too. In recompense you can keep Ricky Gervais, what do you say?
Posted by: Andyo
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March 18, 2009 9:09 AM
Why the hate on Gervais? Animals is easily one of the best standup shows I've seen. Has he become too popular to be cool anymore, or you never liked him? I see some similar comments now about Russell Brand, now that he's becoming popular here in the US.
Posted by: tony
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March 18, 2009 10:42 AM
Andyo: The hate on Gervais is that he really isn't very funny. Sure - office was a great concept (in the same way Fawlty Towers was a great concept).
Both worked in their limited runs (12 episodes each!) but the creation of an industry around Gervais is just too damn hollywood!
Gervais comes across as a 'poor mans philosopher' - which would be fine if he was funny at the same time. But he mostly makes me cringe (in the same way his character on the Office made me cringe).
Regarding the Office. I loved it as 'social commentary'. As comedy I can watch multiple times - I like it less.
As a concept, I think the US version is both easier to watch and a lot less angst-ridden. It helps that it has better actors, too.
Caveat: I am Scottish, so my cultural sense-of-humor is not entirely congruent with deeply English tropes. :/
Posted by: daniel | March 18, 2009 12:59 PM
Now if we can only get science education back in schools, to avoid stuff such as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfy_ier8Hp8
Posted by: vjack | March 22, 2009 6:49 PM
While watching that great clip, I realized that a large number of Americans probably wouldn't realize that it was supposed to be funny. Standing up for science is even more important when one realizes that many people have convinced themselves that it is evil (while continuing to benefit from it).
Posted by: tus | May 31, 2009 8:11 AM
"great you ended the war on science...the one war we were winning" love that line