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Pseudosciences = fail this guy is really stupid :L

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Est : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

Est

22 votes NegativePositive

104 days 5 hours ago...

Mumbling monotonously doesn`t help when you`re dealing with an impatient interviewer backed up by hard facts.

huhnra : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

huhnra

20 votes NegativePositive

104 days 5 hours ago...

It took him fifteen years to learn that processed foods may contain water?

Pharsical : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

Pharsical

20 votes NegativePositive

104 days 4 hours ago...

Wow. I`d forgotten what a useful service news anchors can provide to the ignorant masses. This kind of confrontational style is considered rude and bad form by public opinion managers in the docile U.S. market. Pity, it seems that we are the ones who would benefit most from a small helping of skepticism (esp. in the past several years).

The truth is usually NOT directly in the middle of two opposing viewpoints. It`s quite tempting for one side in any debate to just lie (aka "making shit up") to support their positions. In other countries, it`s considered offensive and weak-minded to do so, but in the U.S. it`s called "being decisive," or "supremely confident."

fdrazmataz : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

fdrazmataz

10 votes NegativePositive

104 days 2 hours ago...

Jeremy Paxman, the presenter, has a wonderful remit to ask simple questions bluntly. Newsnight is on around 11pm which might help, and this guy was an uncharismatic walkover, unprepared to do anything but rattle off a spiel, but this was still a classic:

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"Is the fact that you`re not medically qualified explanation enough for statements in this teachers` manual of the kind that `Processed foods do not contain water.`? Which you know is arrant nonsense."

...

"uhd... spub..."

... "We`re interested in helping children!"
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oh dear :D

themanthemanman : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

themanthemanman

14 votes NegativePositive

104 days 1 hour ago...

Uhmm.. have you... have you seen my stapler?..

rybear4513 : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

rybear4513

5 votes NegativePositive

104 days ago...

that guy looks like Ganondorf rofl

jiffyjaffa : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

jiffyjaffa

4 votes NegativePositive

103 days 15 hours ago...

Chalk up another one to the paxmiester.

JustSomeGuy : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

JustSomeGuy

1 votes NegativePositive

100 days 7 hours ago...

So his whole argument was quashed by the presence of water in processed foods, even tho in this very interview he hints at the context (PURE water) and even states that that was exactly what he contended 15 years prior, when he first came to that conclusion.

Pharsical, you think that is responsible journalism? Attacking someone with semantics? This is journalism with an agenda. Not once did the anchorman allow him to iterate his point, and then discuss it. I`m skeptical too, but if it were me doing the interview, I would bring up a point of my own then ALLOW him to defend it. Not latch on to semantics and hammer away, I lost the need to do that after puberty.

On a completely unrelated note.

When will you anti-bush people stop resorting to even worse than you accuse Bush of? You run on never ending tangents that support arguments of semantics.

There is a ton of REASONABLE evidence to NOT support Bush, but there is no reason why your extremist views are acceptable.

There is no reason why decent, honest, hard working and reasonable libs and dems, conservatives and repubs, should support your bias views obviously based on prejudice and bigotry.

What is the point in being Anti-Bush? Isn`t it because you feel wronged, and the RIGHT things should have been done instead? Isn`t it because you believe that this administration is wrong, and that the RIGHT should be done? Isn`t it because you hope that no one else falls for what you believe is a lie? How pathetic it is to fight for "justice" by being unreasonable, childish, and prejudice.

Counter productive, that is what your life has become.

Ingenuity321 : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

Ingenuity321

2 votes NegativePositive

100 days 5 hours ago...

He sound like one of those friendly alien guys from that movie Galaxy Quest.

JonGuzman : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

JonGuzman

1 votes NegativePositive

100 days 4 hours ago...

my mind wondered off 2 seconds after he started speaking

chalky23 : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

chalky23

0 votes NegativePositive

100 days 2 hours ago...

Don`t mess with Paxman. You`ve been warned.

Cullum : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Cullum

0 votes NegativePositive

100 days ago...

Well if he made that one mistake, give him a break, he had good intentions, most likely.

Gambit Xe : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Gambit Xe

0 votes NegativePositive

99 days 21 hours ago...

Please don`t criticize things you know nothing about. Brain gym actually does work for children. I`ve seen first hand what brain gym can do for those with mental disabilities. So there`s one little error in his manual that was written 15 years ago. It still doesn`t change the fact that the program works.

Danielnator : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Danielnator

0 votes NegativePositive

99 days 19 hours ago...

what the FUCK!

klavlav : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

klavlav

4 votes NegativePositive

99 days 19 hours ago...

To the degree that Brain Gym "works" at all, I`m doubtful that it works much more than regualar physical exercise.

Before we started homeschooling, we had some finger-shaking school-marms telling us our oldest had subtle but deep developmental issues that required these advanced, special exercises. The school actually gave us permission to take our son out of classes once a week to see a "specialist". We noticed, though, that the more he was allowed to freely play, the less these "issues" seemed to be an issue. By simply playing, he did all the things these exercises were designed to address.

So instead of seeing a specialist once a week, we just lied to the school, told them we were seeing the specialist, and just slept in and played most of the day. After a month, my sons`s teachers raved about how much the specialist had obviously helped, and about how much he had improved! LOL!

Schools deprive kids of play, of movement, of freedom, of exercise, they practically chain kids to their desks, and when the kids predictably go crazy, they prescribe these controlled, pre-packaged, homogenous exercises to "fix" the problems that the schools created in the first place.

It`s not just Brain Gym that is pseudo-science bunk, but most of what passes as "education".

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