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Originally Posted by Eric Debois  wrt: Alex being fawning/rude...
I don't know, to me it sort of makes sense. Some guests are authors that are on the show to sell books, and not really a part of what ever debates are going on.
Being tougher with skeptics who's claim to fame (so to speak) lies in debating these very things seems reasonable to me.
It's a lopsided situation, not sure it's Alex's fault.
I guess he could invite some evangelical preachers who are in it for the arguing. |
What about the Catholic woman he had on a couple months ago? He was trying to attack her religion based on "evidence" from NDEs, and not being overly civil about it. Certainly shows he's willing to debate authors. Seems the only people he
won't debate are those that largely agree with him.
It just all seems like a bit of a ruse to me. Its his show and he is free to conduct himself however he wants, but that doesn't mean that we need to give him a pass. If he wants to maintain any credibility whatsoever, he will start asking tough questions to
all guests.
Follow the data? Intelligent, hard-nosed debate? Hardly!