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CBC Marketplace producers went undercover to investigate the unregulated business of life coaching, the fraudulent trend that has taken over the modern world. We found some coaches are offering mental health advice they aren’t qualified to give, and using coercive sales tactics to pressure people into spending hundreds — sometimes thousands — of dollars on…

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“Francis Bacon: ceticismo e doutrina dos ídolos” – Luiz EVA

Cadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência, UNICAMP, 18 (1) (2008) [PDF] Resumo: Neste artigo nos apoiamos em testemunhos diversos de Francis Bacon a respeito da relação entre sua filosofia e o ceticismo filosófico para estender o exame desse ponto ao âmbito de sua “Doutrina dos Ídolos”. Pretendemos mostrar que, se por um lado as…

“Thomas H. Huxley: agnosticism, naturalism, and atheism in the 19th century” – Roger SHATTUCK

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. F. BACON Voltaire achieves a comparable terseness of expression. When, after a lifetime witnessing the sufferings and duplicities of mankind, Candide can at last profess that he knows something, he quietly sets aside all Pangloss' claims to metaphysical knowledge and…

“Would We Be Better Off Without Religion?” – Christopher HITCHENS

A free-thinking atheism would begin by questioning the prevailing faith in humanity. But there is little prospect of contemporary atheists giving up their reverence for this phantom. Without the faith that they stand at the head of an advancing species they could hardly go on. Only by immersing themselves in such nonsense can they make…

“God is not great” – Christopher HITCHENS | Google Talk

Belief means not wanting to know what is true. NIETZSCHE Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything as a part of the Authors@Google series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist,…

“Quão obscurantista é o emplasto filosófico de Olavo de Carvalho?” – Daniel Tourinho PERES

Le Monde Diplomatique, 12 de fevereiro de 2019 Na aula sobre o texto “O que é a Ilustração” são tantos os absurdos ditos por Olavo de Carvalho sobre Kant, que chega a ser difícil comentar. Seu objetivo: atacar a democracia, a liberdade e a diversidade. Dimitrius Dantas, do jornal O Globo, convidou a mim e…

“I believe chatbots understand part of what they say” – Sabine HOSSENFELDER

I used to think that today's so-called "artificial intelligences" are actually pretty dumb. But I've recently changed my mind. In this video I want to explain why I think that they do understand some of what they do, if not very much. And since I was already freely speculating, I have added some thoughts about…

“Is God a dictator?” – Alex J. O’CONNOR | Cosmic Skeptic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LJBj6Jc-Q Is God nothing more than a "celestial dictator"? Christopher Hitchens thought so, and was relentless in exclaiming so. God is an all-knowing supervisor, who judges your thoughts and demands praise and obedience. But does this make him a tyrant?

“Politics of Consciousness” – Yuval Noah HARARI

What is consciousness? Who has consciousness? And why is it so dangerous to confuse it with intelligence? How does our understanding of consciousness impact the ethical, political and legal debates about abortion, animal rights and the legal status of AI? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rtS2OEV6bM In this video talk, Yuval Noah Harari unpacks these huge questions step by step,…

“Where sceptics fail” – Alex J. O’CONNOR

What is scepticism? How do we deal with our own cognitive dissonance? Can veganism ever be justified purely by reason? These are just some of the questions that Alex O'Connor, a.k.a. CosmicSkeptic, has been grappling with on his youtube channel, viewed by over 40 million people, for the past few years. In this interview, Alex…