Comments on: How ignorant can you be and still get on TV? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:26:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tv http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-222951 tv Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:59:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/#comment-222951 TV likes to put dumb people on TV. Then all the people at home either feel equal or superior to the dummy on TV. There is a huge portion of the US population who is extremely ignorant. And advertisers love ignorance. It all makes perfect sense, really TV likes to put dumb people on TV.
Then all the people at home either feel equal or superior to the dummy on TV.

There is a huge portion of the US population who is extremely ignorant.
And advertisers love ignorance.

It all makes perfect sense, really

]]> By: Gordon P. Hemsley http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-221234 Gordon P. Hemsley Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:19:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/#comment-221234 Come on, now. Everyone knows the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Come on, now. Everyone knows the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

]]> By: Psychic view | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-221188 Psychic view | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:34:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/#comment-221188 [...] don’t expect a lot out of the daytime TV show The View. After all, if one of your four hosts isn’t sure the Earth is round, and you don’t immediately replace her with someone who’s views are more up-to-date [...] [...] don’t expect a lot out of the daytime TV show The View. After all, if one of your four hosts isn’t sure the Earth is round, and you don’t immediately replace her with someone who’s views are more up-to-date [...]

]]> By: Jay http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-49052 Jay Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:15:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/#comment-49052 Daniel from Uruguay, I envy you. North America is full of crackpots that someone how believe whatever they think is true just because, no proof needed. Evangelicism and the supposed moral majority (who constantly get caught have sex in public washrooms) has ruined the US in particular and pandering by political parties to these deluded people has given these people legitimacy. Its becoming a Christian fundamentalist state much like the ones in the Middle East controlled by Islam. Truth and facts no longer count. Just conviction. I commend your country and its secularity, especially the fact Christmas and Holy Week are not recognized by the state. The way it should be otherwise you are supporting only one faction in your country which causes what you see in the Middle East and soon in the US. As for third world status, thats a label conjured up by those who believe selling your soul for the almighty dollar is everything. Life is secondary. Cheers. Daniel from Uruguay,
I envy you.

North America is full of crackpots that someone how believe whatever they think is true just because, no proof needed.

Evangelicism and the supposed moral majority (who constantly get caught have sex in public washrooms) has ruined the US in particular and pandering by political parties to these deluded people has given these people legitimacy. Its becoming a Christian fundamentalist state much like the ones in the Middle East controlled by Islam. Truth and facts no longer count. Just conviction.

I commend your country and its secularity, especially the fact Christmas and Holy Week are not recognized by the state. The way it should be otherwise you are supporting only one faction in your country which causes what you see in the Middle East and soon in the US.

As for third world status, thats a label conjured up by those who believe selling your soul for the almighty dollar is everything. Life is secondary.

Cheers.

]]> By: Why is this Woman on TV? « Blevkog http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-49051 Why is this Woman on TV? « Blevkog Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:42:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/#comment-49051 [...] on December 5, 2007  Back when I’d read about a co-host of “The View” claiming that she didn’t know if whether the world was flat I just thought ‘What the hell - It’s ‘The View” - you only get on that show [...] [...] on December 5, 2007  Back when I’d read about a co-host of “The View” claiming that she didn’t know if whether the world was flat I just thought ‘What the hell – It’s ‘The View” – you only get on that show [...]

]]> By: Depleted Cranium » Blog Archive » Jesus Christ, can Sherri Shephard Get Dumber? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-49050 Depleted Cranium » Blog Archive » Jesus Christ, can Sherri Shephard Get Dumber? Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:54:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/#comment-49050 [...] have heard a while back one of the ladies on “The View” wasn’t really sure if the earth was flat or round. Well, I let that one pass because it had already been written about to death on a bunch of other [...] [...] have heard a while back one of the ladies on “The View” wasn’t really sure if the earth was flat or round. Well, I let that one pass because it had already been written about to death on a bunch of other [...]

]]> By: Newton http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-49049 Newton Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:40:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/09/18/how-ignorant-can-you-be-and-still-get-on-tv/#comment-49049 "actually evolution is still q theory" So is gravity you silly twit... “actually evolution is still q theory”

So is gravity you silly twit…

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