Comments on: Water on Black Mesa

By: yami

yami — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:54:00 +0000

Maybe in the UK we could, but here in the FDRUSA we need more commercials than that.

By: des

des — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:40:00 +0000

Mmmm, peyote! If you can fit your minefield segment to 20-mumble minutes we could have an hour-long programme (”program”) combining both…

By: yami

yami — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:15:00 +0000

I would actually prefer Epistemology Challenge II: Media Edition. Each week, a journalist who gives “equal time” to science and empirically refutable nonsense must navigate a mine field. For the first half, contestants are given maps, compasses, metal detectors and a handheld GPS. For the second half, they get tea leaves, peyote, the earnest prayers of a woman in Missouri, and a cell phone with the psychic hotline on speed dial.

By: des

des — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:18:00 +0000

“In Western science they will tell you everything is disconnected in neat little compartments. In telling you the water [on the surface] is not connected to the aquifer, they are telling you your thumb is not connected to your toes. The Hopi [and Navajo] are saying that it doesn’t work that way. In our science, we know everything is interconnected. Everything is universally together, each part to make the other work.”
I have a pet TV project called “Epistemology Challenge” with your hosts Mr Smith and Ms Weston.
Each week, a critic of Eurocentrique science will be tied to a chair, with a gun pointed at their temple, and have twenty (20) minutes to refute the hosts’ theory that their brains will be outblown by the clever mechanisme fixed to the trigger when the timer has run down.
What fun!