In Case You Don't Torrent

I introduced The Dulcinea to torrenting last night so there are obviously people out there who still don't know what it is. Anyway, if you are one these folks, then know that you can watch Richard Dawkins' latest TV program, The Enemies of Reason up at Google Video. (Thanks to P.Z. Myers for pointing this out.)

I've seen it and it's wonderful. While the program is unlikely to persuade people who read their horoscopes everyday and take it seriously, hopefully it can ignite conversations about Dawkins' assertion that mystics, seers, and the like contribute to a general ignorance amongst the population of science and a rejection of reason and logic. He quite rightly points out how people who believe in astrology, ESP, and the like are more than happy to take advantage of the fruits of science and reason when it suits them and to turn their backs when it doesn't. It says quite a bit on how the human psyche works. Here's the part about astrology:



You'd think people would have stopped allowing themselves to be in front of the camera with him by now.