Levels Of Lies
- Newspaper reports celebrity “under fire”, when it’s the newspapers doing the firing
- Newspaper reports Dawkins as saying kids shouldn’t be read fairy-tales, when in fact he just said he’d like some research done on whether that helps or not, his suspicion is that it’s harmless.
- Russel Brand notices the first lie, and calls it out. But he takes the 2nd literately, assuming the Dawkins lie true.
- Brand comes out with a lie of his own: “according to science consciousness can’t exist”. Um. No. Science certainly doesn’t imply that. There’s a whole science textbook on it here on my shelf, written by Dawkin’s friend Susan Blackmore.
- Brands reads from a textbook claiming “infinite” metaphors in human mindspace. Potentially infinite maybe. Actual metaphors are countable
I mostly like the format of these Trews things, trash the comical propaganda in the newspapers then read from a proper educational book. Compare actual deep understanding with the literally made-up nonsense in the newspapers.
Annoying how much he seems to misunderstand science though. It’s all those middle-eastern mystics what did him in I guess.