riiiiiiiight

[lauralh]

We just watched a couple eps on the first disc of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. Pretty good so far, although I feel bad for the people they fool, in the Ali G way. I especially liked the secondhand smoke thing, 'cos that's one of my major annoyances. And it was nice to see confirmed that the two major studies don't actually conclude there's a significant risk from it.

But just to be fair, here's a relase saying there is. No numbers in this release, just percentages, so I dunno if they did the same trickery Penn referred to about the other reports.

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[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

Actually, they don't fool anyone. They get releases. At least in the second season, the people they interviewed got to see previous shows. When you're really nutty, any chance to get the word out is a good chance.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

P&T or Ali G?

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

P&T. On the latest one they mentioned that one of their guests from the Catholic League had actually sued to have their (stage) show shut down in the past, but there he was on the (TV) show anyway.

[vileinfestation.livejournal.com]

I may've mentioned this already... on the road with Big Bill, my roommate and I saw Ali G in our hotel one night.

The next night, as the van carrying Muddy Waters's son and his band pulled up for our show, little did all of the blues fans outside know that the whole band was singing "throw the jew down the well."

[moderndayknight.livejournal.com]

Obviously it's not healthy to breathe smoke into your lungs, second hand or first hand.

[verybadlady.livejournal.com]

I heard they did one on circumcision...?

[bewing.livejournal.com]

The dangers of secondhand smoke are definitely STATISTICALLY significant.
But unless you were a flight attendant for a couple decades, those dangers are not PRACTICALLY significant. As many people die by lightning every decade as die by secondhand smoke, I'd bet -- and I don't see people taking the (obvious) risk of lightning death seriously enough to do anything about it (personalized lightning rods, etc). So secondhand smoke risks are mostly whining. On the other hand, a smoker has no right to injure me in such a way -- even just a little. If it takes a sledgehammer over their heads to get them to be considerate, then so be it.