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NLP: In the Media: Body Language and Faux News

Bidouleroux says...

This is stupid. His observations on body language are somewhat correct, but you don't need NLP to make them. They're pretty basic and sometimes they cross over to simple pop psychology or outright bullshit (and let's not even get into the matter of his melodramatic delivery and language). Basically, he's showing off the cold reading side of NLP: pseudo-objective and unnuanced interpretations given as facts to make you think he can see through anyone. I like Korzybski's idea of a non-Aristotelian system of thought, but NLP is not it. NLP is to non-Aristotelian thought as Scholasticism is to Aristotelianism, i.e. a convoluted and unnecessary dead-end.

But what ticks me off the most is that the guy is trying to debunk Fox News, which is run by a bunch of idiots, by defending someone even more idiotic, namely a conspiracy theorist nut disguised as a professor (or more accurately, former university lecturer and teaching assistant). The first thing a "professor" should do is say that he doesn't believe the conspiracy theories because there isn't sufficient conclusive evidence, but that the real important thing is that Muslims believe in them. Thus he would bypass even Hannity's brain dead "questions" and could talk about his course (because Hannity hates Muslims and would love to make fun of their conspiracy believing ways). The fact that he didn't do this and chose to go on about how this little minuscule piece of possibly relevant information was somehow a big boost of conspiracy theories shows one of two things: either that he simply is a general idiot and thus is unfit to teach in the first place; or that he really believes his "evidence" makes a strong case for the conspiracies, which fact proves him to be an idiot and thus unfit to teach anyway (at least on the topic of anything related to 9/11 and other conspiracy theories). From his Wikipedia article, the latter seems more likely.

The Unfunny Truth about Scientology (A bit graphic)

Trancecoach says...

Oh yes, Scientology is a dangerous cult founded by a psychotic science fiction writer based on psychoanalysis (Freud), hypnosis (Erickson), general semantics (Korzybski), and ritual magick (Crowley). Since his death, the bogus "system" has since been sifted into marketing tools as a sort of pyramid scheme of insane brainwashing programs. If but its members could break trance long enough to realize how self-deluded they are to see, thanks to this video, the extent to which All Scientologists have blood on their hands (even Tom Cruise, despite the fact that TCLTC).

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