比尔·马赫是一位美国喜剧演员、政治评论员和电视节目主持人，他以其反宗教和支持动物权利的立场而闻名。他通常被认为是一位中间派自由主义者，并支持大麻合法化。然而，他也是一位反对政治正确和觉醒文化的反叛者，自称是一位失望的自由主义者。尽管如此，他对于传统医学，特别是疫苗的极度怀疑态度，却让他在与萨姆·哈里斯和理查德·道金斯等人的对话中，总是将话题引回到疫苗上。

🤔 比尔·马赫是一位以反宗教和支持动物权利的立场而闻名的美国喜剧演员、政治评论员和电视节目主持人。他通常被认为是一位中间派自由主义者，并支持大麻合法化。然而，他也是一位反对政治正确和觉醒文化的反叛者，自称是一位失望的自由主义者。

🧐 尽管如此，他对于传统医学，特别是疫苗的极度怀疑态度，却让他在与萨姆·哈里斯和理查德·道金斯等人的对话中，总是将话题引回到疫苗上。这引发了人们对于他这种反叛态度是否源于对于科学的怀疑，还是仅仅是一种为了引起争议而采取的策略的思考。

🍻 在与理查德·道金斯和萨姆·哈里斯的对话中，比尔·马赫试图挑战他们的科学观点，并试图证明自己对于疫苗的怀疑是有道理的。然而，他的论据往往缺乏逻辑和证据，最终导致他无法说服他的对话对手。这表明，比尔·马赫对于疫苗的怀疑态度可能更多的是基于一种个人偏见，而不是基于科学证据。

🤔 这引发了人们对于比尔·马赫的这种反叛态度是否源于对于科学的怀疑，还是仅仅是一种为了引起争议而采取的策略的思考。他的观点是否真的值得关注，还是仅仅是一种为了博取眼球的炒作？

Bill Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host from the tail end of the baby-boomer generation. He's principally a centrist liberal in terms of his political leanings, being well known for his anti-religious and pro-animal rights positions, as well as a supporter of things like cannabis legalisation. On the other hand, he's something of a contrarian and styles himself as anti-political correctness and anti-woke, identifying as a disenchanted liberal, like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris.

Now, all of that is well and good, let a hundred flowers bloom! But... on the less-salubrious side, he's also a contrarian when it comes to his extreme scepticism of conventional medicine, and vaccines in particular. And as we'll see in the two interviews we cover, with Sam Harris ^ and Richard Dawkins, it never seems to take him very long before the conversation is steered back to vaccines.

So, will Maher make the gurometer go 'DING'? Let's face it, probably not. But if not, why not? It is worth checking to tune up the old instrument. And it is indeed something to behold as a boozy, stoned Maher tries (and manifestly fails) to coax Richard Dawkins out of his prim and proper shell.

Also features discussions of Chris' run-ins with the rationalists, a new 'Whinge of the Week' segment, and the rhetorical technique of 'pouncing'.

Links

Richard Dawkins on Club Random with Bill MaherSam Harris on Club Random with Bill MaherAstral Codex Ten- Contra Kavanagh On FideismMedium Article by Chris - Am I a Fideist?Astral Codex Ten - Trying Again on FideismMaking Sense with Sam Harris - Did SARS-COV-2 escape from a lab?Konstantin Kisin - Reflections on Dealing With Bad Faith CriticismUpcoming discussion with John Vervaeke & Chris Mastropietro at The Stoa