I was going to say he's fairly smart for a 14 year old boy (or at least it seemed that way until the tinfoil hat came out around 4:00) but day-um ma' clown bitchez... I don't know what to even say now.

Stars cause when I read the first comment my reaction was "That's a woman?!"

FUCKIN' DIETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?

Mongo gets my stars

Being someone who reads isn't an accurate representation of how knowledgeable one is anymore. I would much rather watch a show with Bill Nye or Carl Sagan than read anything.

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Considering books usually delve into many times more detail and information than a TV show could possibly hope to do, yeah actually it DOES tend to indicate overall education on a subject.

Congrats, Konversekid, you're a dumb as the ICP ladything!

Konversekid is right, you can operate a McDonalds cash register without even knowing HOW to read. Take that, guys.

To be fair, you can learn enough science through spiffy multimedia web presentations to invalidate an ICP video. Not reading is no excuse for not knowing at least some basic scientific concepts.

I understand to have an truly applicable understanding of science you require to either read or to actually have a formal education, however to simply enjoy science you do not. There are however many means in which someone can become knowledgeable within a modern context. I probably shouldn't have defended an idiot who watches basic science programming. It's obvious I was to rash in making that statement and I was just expressing how much I hate books, while I still maintain a healthy thirst for knowledge and I mostly quench it in other manners.

KK,

I didn't say you had to read _books_. My point is that if you are reading about something relating to science you are more likely to be engaging the issues actively: searching google, wikipedia, reading blogs, commenting - rather than simply being fat in front of whatever the Discovery Channel wants to tell you about.

That this person, when defending her interest in science can only name two sciency-pop culture shows she watches...that is gross.

No, of course you don't need to only be reading books, but jesus christ, please be reading something.

There are very few things that will set off a knee-jerk reaction from me when meeting people. One of them is "I don't like reading and think it's unimportant." Aside from speaking, it's the most common form of all human expression, and where almost all our history and knowledge exists. I have trouble comprehending that a person could say that, and not have extremely narrow intellectual interests.

tf:dw?

Good catch!

Holy shit!

I think they think "being smart" is a style or involves knowing secrets. They're about as smart as someone can get without any sort of scientific method or any need for it, getting their education through oral history. It's de-evolution.

WE MUST REPEAT

I just watched it, only the embedding is disabled.

Because electrons and shit are charged particles, and when electrons die they become ghosts and can pass through all kinds of shit. Then they can make other charged partcles move by scaring them and shit.

magnets like ghosts... crazy!

That is pretty amazing. "I don't understand something simple and observable. So I'll explain it with something fictional and unobservable that I don't understand. Like how microwaves are powered by unicorn horns."