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Thursday, September 29, 2016

The Future Is An Ad For Crap In The Present

Just saw a Vonage commercial premised on the patently false beliefs that Drexlerian nanotechnology is real and the space shuttle is still operating...

4 comments:

jimf said...

> Just saw a. . . commercial premised on the patently false beliefs. . .

Never more than a little bit of customization required.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/09/30/skepticism-is-so-easily-displaced-by-fantasy/
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We’ve seen it so many times before, you think we’d learn.
The glib, charismatic con man, short on evidence but long
on vision. The desirable dream: cure my fatal disease,
show me proof of an afterlife, teach me how to unleash my
psychic powers. We’re supposed to be good at recognizing
those, and rejecting them. But it turns out that the
con man just needs to tailor his fantasy to fit, and he can
reach even the hard core skeptics. . .
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Big Daddy will show us the way!

Dale Carrico said...

Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?

jimf said...

> Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious
> odor of mendacity in this room?

One o' them no-neck monsters must've cut the cheese.

Dale Carrico said...

A+