January 2, 2014 Hour 2

In [DEAD] Main Show, Membership, The Young Turks Hour 2 - On Demand by Elderrune29 Comments

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Recreational pot is now legal in Colorado. New hepatitis C drug claiming to cure the disease is arriving on the market. The price of the new drug is an astounding $1,000 per pill. A federal judge has ruled that Florida Governor’s policy of testing welfare recipients in unconstitutional violating citizens’ protection against unreasonable search and seizure. In a new BBC documentary marine biologists have filmed dolphins getting high on puffer fish toxins. Snap Chat’s database was recently hacked and users’ personal information including emails and phone numbers were made public. Donkey meat sold in China has been found to be tainted with fox meat!

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  1. Great show, Jimmy on fire as always, Cara Santa Maria is awesome and very attractive, has anyone mentioned that?

  2. You can get pot in the netherlands now no problem. You don’t need ID.
    I live in Utrecht, work in Amsterdam.

  3. This is the wrong day’s show linking from 1/3/14. I love you guys, but this is not a tricaster error! Its definitely human…again…

  4. If FL wants to test for welfare recipients, they should test all public employees – they live off tax payer money as well, and some could cause more damage being on drugs at work than people on welfare who are just lying around. (sarcasm for the last part)

  6. A science magazine debunked the idea that the dolphins were “getting high” on a paralytic that doesn’t cross the blood barrier. The scientist said they were paralyzed, not staring at their reflections. The article also said they were most likely investigating it and got lucky it didn’t kill them. Please research this stuff better. I can’t provide a link from my phone but it is google-able.

  7. I told my friend about the Fox laced Donkey meat and he said that was odd as he would expect it to be laced with cat. I didn’t understand this so he explained, “I would just think you’d want some p*ssy while you get some @ss.”

    Jimmy Dore, you should have used this ^^

  9. Why TyT never includes science when talking about weed. Pot really slows your reaction time, so smoking and driving is actually bad, but not as bad as drinking driving, but thats still not a good argument.

  10. CSM is a good example of science becoming a religion. To point to some study and say, “oh, this mammal isn’t a higher order as declared by scientists” is kinda BS. You can’t tell me a scientist knows what’s in an animal’s head, what it’s like to be that creature, or what the value is to its existence. The arrogance of some science is to think that somehow we can understand things like that by assigning bullshit empirical values to things.

    1. I’m sorry… but… what? CSM? Christian science monitor?? A religious paper that claimed Jesus was a scientist?
      If your’re using CSM in a different context, let me know.
      And, yes scientists can know to a degree what is going on in an animal’s head, just like people can observe what stimulus I experience and what actions I do as a result. Not TOO complicated.

      1. CSM = Cara Santa Maria, the co-host on this show.

        His point is still bullshit, though. He doesn’t understand the basics of critical thought, skepticism is the cornerstone of the scientific process. He somehow suggests that science is arrogant and dogmatic, which supposedly makes it “a religion”.

        1. And you’re not disproving anything I’m saying, merely calling me a lot of names and telling me what I do and don’t understand. Yeah, why would I call that arrogant?

    2. Also, when do scientists apply value? I think pretty much all scientists (or in this case biologists) think most lifeforms are benificial (with some exceptions, like mosquitoes – but even that is a point of discussion)

    3. To put it in the simplest of terms, a scientist “knows what’s in an animal’s head” once he cracks the head open and takes a peek. They’ve have done that *a lot*, and by now they have a decent understanding of what’s going on in there. So there’s no small amount of certainty when they say that the brain of a pufferfish is far less complex than the brain of a dolphin or a human. No arrogance there whatsoever.

      When you talk about assigning bullshit empiric values, that’s no longer science, that’s just PR. By that point, scientists are trying to justify the moral grounds on doinf experiments on live animals, which is… questionable to say the least, but those justifications have *nothing to do* with the scientific method.

      1. “To put it in the simplest of terms, a scientist “knows what’s in an animal’s head” once he cracks the head open and takes a peek.”

        Ah, so cracking an animal’s head open is the same as knowing whether it has a soul? Wow, yeah, why would I call that arrogant? Ha ha.

        1. What I mean by her “arrogance” is that just claiming that you know some latest study that proves your point doesn’t make other people’s viewpoints irrelevant or less than yours. CSM is always claiming “oh, no, science has proven it”. Yet many of the things she’s talking about are fairly recent one-time studies, not established scientific fact. To hold science up as if each new thing it says is utterly correct and that scientific consensus has never changed in the past I would call arrogant and unschooled in history.

          1. I don’t follow your comment about souls, perhaps because I don’t believe in them personally, but your second comment here was spot-on. The reason why preventable diseases are on the rise, is for the very reason you mentioned here. People hold up a newly-minted study that links them to autism and claim it as fact. Then, down the road, the study is retracted because it was falsified/incorrect.

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