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Originally Posted by Ari
In my opinion the Big Think desperately wants to be TED but lacks the money and talent and the few times I've seen them really has the feel of a bunch of mediocre intellectuals who keep patting themselves on the back for how intellectual and amazing they are. This isn't the first time they've acted like the most intellectual thing to do is to sit down and chat with racists because if we can only just find common ground then IDK, racism will be over. The few scientists they have dumb down their stuff to the most basic, pop-sci levels. Maybe they have some good stuff these days but I quickly wrote them off as a pop-sci TED X style production that likes to think about thinking a lot but not do real indepth research.
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lol Question-begging ad hominems ftw!