As Kenny Powers would say, "I'm about to fuck you up with some truth."

There were two songs with the title "I Kissed a Girl" and neither of them were by the band Veruca Salt. There was the 1995 tune by Jill Sobule and then the 2008 tune by Katy Perry, which this video is a parody of.

The footage in the video is from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie with Johnny Depp from a couple years ago (really? do you kids really know that little about the threadbare culture we have?) and one of the characters in this movie is named Veruca Salt who happens to be featured in this video prominently.

And let me say for the record: duh. The internet is only the largest information repository in the history of mankind.

Here are the lyrics for you sing-alongers out there:

Lyrics:

[Michael Shermer]
Science is the best tool ever devised
For understanding how the world works

[Jacob Bronowski]
Science is a very human form of knowledge
We are always at the brink of the known

[Carl Sagan]
Science is a collaborative enterprise
Spanning the generations
We remember those who prepared the way
Seeing for them also

[Neil deGrasse Tyson]
If you're scientifically literate,
The world looks very different to you
And that understanding empowers you

Refrain:
[Richard Dawkins]
There's real poetry in the real world
Science is the poetry of reality

[Sagan]
We can do science
And with it, we can improve our lives

[Jill Tarter]
The story of humans is the story of ideas
That shine light into dark corners

[Lawrence Krauss]
Scientists love mysteries
They love not knowing

[Richard Feynman]
I don't feel frightened by not knowing things
I think it's much more interesting

[Brian Greene]
There's a larger universal reality
of which we are all apart

[Stephen Hawking]
The further we probe into the universe
The more remarkable are the discoveries we make

[Carolyn Porco]
The quest for the truth, in and of itself,
Is a story that's filled with insights

(Refrain)

[Greene]
From our lonely point in the cosmos
We have through the power of thought
Been able to peer back to a brief moment
After the beginning of the universe

[PZ Myers]
I think that science changes the way your mind works
To think a little more deeply about things

[Dawkins]
Science replaces private predjudice
With publicly verifiable evidence

(Refrain)

one more *beg for Jill

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Kill this presenter. God she's annoying.

re Jill Price might she not try some electro-shock therapy? http://www.videosift.com/video/Ted-Talks-electroshock-therapy

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Birds Fly

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Father

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
9 Shake Break Bounce

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
El Wraith

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Andantino

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Possibly Maybe

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Flim

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Quite Inside

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Guinnea Pig 3

WHAT IS 2+2?
BWV 540

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Powaqqatsi

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Autumn In New York

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Lesson I for Good Friday

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Resurrection

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Truck Driver Divorce

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Serra Pelada

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Rock This Town

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Boo Who?

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Pearly

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Anstromm Feck-4

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
I'm Out Deah

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Magnetic Rag

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
O choruscans stellarum

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Naught More Terrific Than Man

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Extraordinary Machine

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Bleeding Heart

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
The Ozone

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Cocaine And Toupees

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Jill's America

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Versuchung Des Heiligen Antonius

>> ^BillOreilly:
he would've failed as a Secretary of State just like he'll fail as VP, so it's no big deal


indeed

>> ^Xax:
This and Jill of the Jungle were my very first PC games ever. Oh, what an obsession they started...
This is going to sound totally bizarre, but just watching the video reminds me of the strong smell of rubber from the thick mousepad that came with our first PC.



Hehe. I remember how much I hate slugs.

This and Jill of the Jungle were my very first PC games ever. Oh, what an obsession they started...

This is going to sound totally bizarre, but just watching the video reminds me of the strong smell of rubber from the thick mousepad that came with our first PC.

As long as I get to play as Jill, the master of airlocking?

What a horrible presentation. There's a difference between agile and frenetic.

Jill Bolte Taylor gave a much better presentation at this conference and it hasn't gotten as many votes.

[BTW, I'm guessing Asperger's Syndrome - not cocaine. Or maybe both.]

Description of Straw Man
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:


Person A has position X.
Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
Person B attacks position Y.
Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.

This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person.

Examples of Straw Man

Prof. Jones: "The university just cut our yearly budget by $10,000."
Prof. Smith: "What are we going to do?"
Prof. Brown: "I think we should eliminate one of the teaching assistant positions. That would take care of it."
Prof. Jones: "We could reduce our scheduled raises instead."
Prof. Brown: " I can't understand why you want to bleed us dry like that, Jones."

"Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."

Bill and Jill are arguing about cleaning out their closets:
Jill: "We should clean out the closets. They are getting a bit messy."
Bill: "Why, we just went through those closets last year. Do we have to clean them out everyday?"
Jill: "I never said anything about cleaning them out every day. You just want too keep all your junk forever, which is just ridiculous."

as if you didn't already know :-)

Description of Burden of Proof
Burden of Proof is a fallacy in which the burden of proof is placed on the wrong side. Another version occurs when a lack of evidence for side A is taken to be evidence for side B in cases in which the burden of proof actually rests on side B. A common name for this is an Appeal to Ignorance. This sort of reasoning typically has the following form:


Claim X is presented by side A and the burden of proof actually rests on side B.
Side B claims that X is false because there is no proof for X.
In many situations, one side has the burden of proof resting on it. This side is obligated to provide evidence for its position. The claim of the other side, the one that does not bear the burden of proof, is assumed to be true unless proven otherwise. The difficulty in such cases is determining which side, if any, the burden of proof rests on. In many cases, settling this issue can be a matter of significant debate. In some cases the burden of proof is set by the situation. For example, in American law a person is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty (hence the burden of proof is on the prosecution). As another example, in debate the burden of proof is placed on the affirmative team. As a final example, in most cases the burden of proof rests on those who claim something exists (such as Bigfoot, psychic powers, universals, and sense data).

Examples of Burden of Proof

Bill: "I think that we should invest more money in expanding the interstate system."
Jill: "I think that would be a bad idea, considering the state of the treasury."
Bill: "How can anyone be against highway improvements?"

Bill: "I think that some people have psychic powers."
Jill: "What is your proof?"
Bill: "No one has been able to prove that people do not have psychic powers."

"You cannot prove that God does not exist, so He does."

In reply to this comment by nibiyabi:
Yes, where does lie the burden of poof?

/couldn't resist