This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc2 in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.
The funny thing is that that’s literally all I remember about that talk. I don’t remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.
I just listened to the most recent Behind the Bastards on forensic ‘science’ used in court cases and Robert played a clip of one guy who had a Ted talk where he spoke about how he uses divining rods to find dead bodies buried in the ground.
The worst part is this guy is still employed in the field, testifies as an expert witness to get people convicted of crimes, grifts families of missing persons claiming he can find them for a fee based on their body’s “unique frequency” (obtained from fingernail clippings), consults/instructs law enforcement on his techniques using taxpayer funds, and worked until recently at the famous body farm at the Univeristy of Tennessee.
Reminds of various evangelical speakers seeing “crosses” in nature or cheese toasties and thinking they’re profound. Truly a Christmas miracle that a pair of lines intersect.
My favorite was the one who claimed to have converted to christianity after seeing 3 waterfalls and because he saw three of something one time that means the trinity is real.
This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc2 in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.
The funny thing is that that’s literally all I remember about that talk. I don’t remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.
The Onion’s TED parodies capture this dumb shit perfectly
Ted talks went from mildly interesting to Deepak Choprarian nonsense so insanely fast.
Tedx is a service you pay to come and pretend you have words worth saying, like how you pay Guinness world records to come and hand you a fancy plaque
I just listened to the most recent Behind the Bastards on forensic ‘science’ used in court cases and Robert played a clip of one guy who had a Ted talk where he spoke about how he uses divining rods to find dead bodies buried in the ground.
The worst part is this guy is still employed in the field, testifies as an expert witness to get people convicted of crimes, grifts families of missing persons claiming he can find them for a fee based on their body’s “unique frequency” (obtained from fingernail clippings), consults/instructs law enforcement on his techniques using taxpayer funds, and worked until recently at the famous body farm at the Univeristy of Tennessee.
Reminds of various evangelical speakers seeing “crosses” in nature or cheese toasties and thinking they’re profound. Truly a Christmas miracle that a pair of lines intersect.
My favorite was the one who claimed to have converted to christianity after seeing 3 waterfalls and because he saw three of something one time that means the trinity is real.
Imagine what wild beliefs he’d be lurching into if that story were remotely true. Wild that people seem to be into it