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"Still not worse than a man in skinny jeans." - Travis Vocino

"Fox News often cites poll results from the site (I admit, I watch the lunch show, it's better than Dr. Nancy on msnbc). However, even though I've long seen these polls skewed by Reddit and other communities, never have I seen or heard of any instances where they were referenced on the air. The polls referenced on the air are always results which make me go "Yeah right!" Has anyone ever seen a poll that was on Reddit that was "beaten" by the reasonable and logical land on the air?" - Travis Vocino

"I waited for the "hilarious" for oh so long." - Travis Vocino

"Why must every YouTube video be edited the same?" - Travis Vocino

"Good information, terrible design." - Travis Vocino

"What kind of terrible debate is this? How about I jump in the debate and say that immediately after a human dies, his soul becomes entombed in a new G.I. Joe action figure coming off the assembly line. **Prove me wrong.** The bottom line is, you don't know, I don't know and he doesn't know. He choses to make some random shit up with no basis in reality so he can sleep at night." - Travis Vocino

"I never really wonder that, actually." - Travis Vocino

"FACT CHECK: You linked to a Foxnews.com article. You now owe Murdoch money." - Travis Vocino

"Thank Xenu, Scientology made the list!" - Travis Vocino

"*as long as we're theorycrafting fairy tales...* Ok ok but wait... like... dude... if Luke didn't know Leia was his sister..." - Travis Vocino

"I'm a hot 24-year old night elf rogue, give me gold." - Travis Vocino

"Better headline: *Mininova dies.*" - Travis Vocino

"1. that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990." - Travis Vocino

"Well said." - Travis Vocino

"If only the frames were in order." - Travis Vocino

"I wouldn't mind having a place to go to after I die where I get to be with my best friend and greatest mentor I ever had in this world, my late mother. That's about it." - Travis Vocino

"If you hate fish but don't want to hurt the chef's feelings, it's going to be a shitty dinner. Good luck." - Travis Vocino

""5 minutes" seems terribly hyperbolic for an otherwise simple, factual, concise article." - Travis Vocino

"**Nobody can make money from it?!** You've got to be kidding. The vitamin industry is HUGE. They fund these types of studies on an ongoing basis year-round. Large companies, many of which are overseas but have a significant front in the US (like Shaklee Corporation). I'm not saying it's some type of stupid conspiracy or anything. I'm just noting that there is huge money to be made in marketing significant findings from as-legit-as-possible studies showing supplements cure/prevent disease. **BIG money**." - Travis Vocino

"No one seems to remember the hysteria leading up to **Y2K** (as it was hyped by every news network). The banks were going offline, ATMs were useless, the phone system was crashing, and don't get caught in an elevator! This was the mainstream media talking about this stuff as serious news. No one remembers that? At least the 2012 nonsense is somewhat relegated to fringe idiots still." - Travis Vocino

"If only there were a place, like maybe we could subsidize it with tax dollars... and we could put books and shit in there for people that cannot afford them or don't want to purchase them outright. New business plan!" - Travis Vocino

"This may be an odd question but seriously, I always felt like being a real doctor and a traditional christian were mutually exclusive. I've never met a doctor that was more than an Einstein-esque higher power universe awe type person. How does one practice modern medicine whilst denying biological evolution? That seems intellectually impossible." - Travis Vocino

"To be fair, the person that wrote the book wasn't actually there. It's not easy to write a complete work with zero errors using only a collection of ideologies, some input from marketing people and perhaps some random audio tapes recorded during the subject's commute or while she's cooking." - Travis Vocino

"At least it goes directly to the image." - Travis Vocino

"I don't agree. Choosing to take that lack of evidence you describe and fill it with God is fine (although I personally think it's illogical) but that still isn't *religion* in terms of a particular dogma rooted in some type of revisionist history, e.g. Christianity (the one in question in this thread). I do indeed believe that a faith in the tenants of Christianity as defined by any honest reading of the Bible or a majority of leaders in the faith requires a breakdown of critical thinking to accept." - Travis Vocino

"How can I say that I have the truth any more than they do? Uhm... evidence. Mountains of fucking evidence. This isn't about atheism vs. christianity. It's about critical thinking vs. blind faith. Elsewhere in the thread someone made the very astute recommendation that the correct response to the person's son would have been "What do *you* think?" That is exactly right. Would you do the same with your child's math test? Can they just put whatever makes them feel good or whatever they personally believe and it's ok? The *right* and *wrong* isn't with the conclusion, it's with the method you teach your children to employ to get to that conclusion." - Travis Vocino

"What is this retarded point doing here? Yes my friend, getting your kid to drink kool-aid for a moon monster is indoctination, getting him to wash behind his ears isn't. One is good, one is bad. One is real, one is not. Get it now?" - Travis Vocino

"I immediately thought the same thing. I second this." - Travis Vocino

"Addressing those issues comes down to teaching people critical thinking skills from a young age—something that religion is diametrically opposed to. **Evangelizing critical thinking and skepticism is often confused with "atheism"**, when actually, one is just the product of another." - Travis Vocino

"Christian conspiracy, obviously." - Travis Vocino