I had the opportunity to meet the creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker at The Amazing Meeting 5, which was held this past January. They’re some… rather interesting characters. In any case, the show contains a lot of off-color jokes, bathroom humor and rather un-intellectual content, but it also, on occasion, does have some amazingly relevant insight.

Episode 615 (season 6, show 15) is titled “The Biggest Douche in the Universe,” and demonstrates that John Edward is, well, a douche. Also, it contains some great information on cold reading, which even James Randi cited as one of the best explanations of the technique in popular culture. Additionally, the words of Stan, one of the characters on the show ring very true for why skepticism is important and why unfounded beliefs and superstitions are harmful: If nothing else, they obscure the facts of what the world really is and hold back humanity, clouding the beauty of reality and preventing a clear understanding of science and reality in general.

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