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Originally Posted by CCDMan
I avoid any support for this pusher of woo-woo, pseudoscience, and all manner of non-scientific (and potentially harmful) nonsense. I agree with Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.com, who places her at the top of his list of Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience. |
Mind you, I'm not defending Oprah Winfrey because I give a tiny rat's ass about her, although, I did like her performance in "The Color Purple" ... but that is the only time I have seen her on the screen (large or small).
I read the Skeptoid list you linked to. Very interesting. I suppose the biggest problem I have with a list like that is that it removes all responsibility for critical thinking from the rest of society.
What about putting the blame for believing in that crap where it belongs ... on the people who believe that crap. Right on those 100,000,000 people "many of whom uncritically accept every word the world's wealthiest woman says ..." Well, what can I say except ... MORONS!!
Anyone who blindly accepts something some other person says, merely because that person is rich, or well known, or powerful, or by dogma "infallible" is minus several billion brain cells in the "think for yourself, dammit" area of their brain.