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- david76, on 10/10/2007, -6/+103I wasn't aware astrology required debunking.
- dbhaley, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34Awesome video, here it is without the ***** blogspam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP7Ys9ocTk
- mr.gates, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29And I wasn't aware that creationism required debunking. But as long as people believe in it then it requires debunking.
- mateo60, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27In other news: There is no Santa Claus!
- Ubersmush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I would love to read what was on the document!
- marine63, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18lies there is a santa claus you've just been a bad boy for so many yrs he stopped giving you presents unlike me
- Oronar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Or you could just watch the video where he even says it's cold reading...
- nooreazy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Darren Brown = Chick Magnet
I need his teaching's!!! - mfratz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I actually disagree with you. I've never seen the video you're talking about but to be honest I usually carry around the same amount of cash on me everyday, along with my interac and credit card. So I find it perfectly plausible that he would be able to make an educated guess about how much money someones is carrying based on a number of variables. The thing I have noticed about Derren Brown's videos is that in many of them (like this one and the chess one) he uses logic, math, science and knowledge to do cool things and never claims them to be magic or spiritual in nature but simply a smart and neat trick. I have much more respect for him than I have for Chris Angel or David Blaine.
- Ezekiel25:17, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Derren Brown is the ***** man! (Not the opressive man)
- ninti, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10"I'd like a scientific explanation of the myriads upon myriads of supra-normal occurrences I've personally experienced."
You are a delusional idiot. Or a fraud. Most likely both. - rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Astrology is a multi-billion dollar industry and you don't think it requires debunking??
- NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Busting charlatans is something that needs to be done continuously, like cutting the grass.
-jcr - mateo60, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9i'm jealous that you said that before I did.
- PAJK, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Like the theory of gravity, right?
- Rfriaz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7As am I.
- superyounan1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7you're splitting hairs: it shows that the power of suggestion and psychology are the driving forces behind all the garbage and mumbo jumbo out there like astrology. People are just wishful thinkers and want magical things to be true. So no this isn't a scientific, double blind, physics experiment, but it gets a clear point across
- barbobot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Milton Friedman has said that it's a good thing if good ideas are plagiarized. I would say that applies here.
- Izzie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6a similar experiment has been done by western philosophers in BC times, and by eastern thinkers around maybe 1000BC. You'll often note that derren brown reuse ideas that have been done before but he does them in a different way. here it was on a different scale. the whole experiement is as such: the text is written month beforehands and then the experiment is conducted in different part of the world, tested against different cultures over a period of time.
- SnuffTheRooster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Coincidence != proof.
Is it repeatable, without failure? Or if there are failures, can they be explained?
Until then, my friend, please move over to the side marked "gullible". - UsernameTaken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"then I'd like a scientific explanation of the myriads upon myriads of supra-normal occurrences I've personally experienced."
Schizophrenia. - xtmno3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Apparently your Catholic School failed to teach you what a theory in science is. You seem to think a theory is a hypothesis. You ignore the testing and analysis that gets done to get to the point of a hypothesis becoming a theory.
I really hope you are a troll, but I doubt it. =( - Disillusion, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6More Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP7Ys9ocTk
- rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"O.K. smokeweed, I'll debunk this video"...
I'm still waiting. - Izzie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Indeed. Anyone paying more attention to the actual content than to the misguiding title would have noticed that what derren brown shows is that "personal reading" can be achieved by using "cold reading".
The whole point of Derren Brown is not to debunk anything but to give the people who take part in his show a moving experience they won't forget, usually something that make people less gullible.
there's no doubt that they are people who abuses others in order to make money. - JoeDiggsIt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Lol, we talked about the stupidity of the "it's just a theory" phrase today in Biology, I actually feel sorry for these people when they say something like that because I know they didn't get good teaching in their science classes.
- NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"true Divination Arts"?
You do know you're a blithering idiot, don't you? Just making sure.
-jcr - AKBryant54, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"I'm going to use big words and pre-made phrases to sound important and smart, not realizing that it makes me sound like a douchebag"
- themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP7Ys9ocTk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcydork%2Etumblr%2Ecom%2Fpost%2F9757261
- lookadeez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6exactly genius- wow. did u stop at the :30 mark? Just for the sake of being able to write an informed response, you could've just watched the whole thing ya know?
- NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Randi does this all the time. Good to see that people like Darren Brown will keep up his work for another generation.
-jcr - Funktastic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"The word theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion.
In common usage, people often use the word theory to signify a conjecture, an opinion, or a speculation. In this usage, a theory is not necessarily based on facts; in other words, it is not required to be consistent with true descriptions of reality. True descriptions of reality are more reflectively understood as statements which would be true independently of what people think about them. In this usage, the word is synonymous with hypothesis.
In science, a theory is a mathematical or logical explanation, or a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theories commonly used to describe and explain this behaviour are Newton's theory of universal gravitation" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory - david76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Actualy, in Kansas, the group which would've debunked creationism elected not to attend the hearings before the school board specifically because they didn't believe it warranted discussion, and because the whole thing was basically staged by the ID movement in Kansas City.
- barbobot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5"Unfortunately, this "experiment" does not debunk astrology. To do this, you would have to show that the predictions made by astrologists are not accurate."
Actually, I would say that the astrologists would have to show their own accuracy in a blind study for them to be proven. The weight of evidence lays on those who make the claims, not those who debunk them. - barbobot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://youtube.com/watch?v=uDhxcIaC23k
This is how. - Aticper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hello Professor Trelawny.
- Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I love Derren Brown, but he stole this idea from James Randi. Randi did this exactly same thing many years ago except he did it in a classroom environment. I believe it was at a university, but I'm not positive about that.
- quokin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's called the Forer/Barnum effect. My psychology professor in college tricked our whole class after taking a week to "analyze" our essays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect - stimpack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Your either female or crazy, maybe both.
- resplence, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"He knows most of the girls better then 80%"
This didn't make any sense. - nytel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3The girl with the black long sleeve in the opening is ***** beautiful!
- silverspyder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2did anyone notice the creepy clown in a black slicker at the end? weird!!!
- thestud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2james randi did this awhile ago as well. another famous debunker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dp2Zqk8vHw
and chick are gullible - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Huuuge defeat for flat earthers
Huuuuge! - revenge7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1In other news: There is no (insert mythical being here)!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1oh noes, he quoted wikipedia! wow that's a juggernaut of information that no self respecting university allows to be used in ANY papers. asshat. Wait a sec. ***** retard skunk poop.
- blorc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Sounds to me like you rolled the Frankenstein *****, the deer *****, the green monster, the bling and the bling-bling all into one joint and smoked it.
- Aticper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The irony is palpable.
- CannibalTom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1why haven't we banned blogspam yet?
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