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Originally Posted by Jigsaw
Well, I'd have to disagree with that, too, even on that level, because the students who did come to his lecture nevertheless learned a valuable lesson, even if they didn't learn anything about UFOs--they learned that many woowoos are disorganized, illogical, and unable to present their cases coherently. They saw one in action, and ever after, their reaction to "UFOs" will be, "UFOs? Nah, I heard this guy give a lecture on them one time, and man, was it boring..."
To me, this would be worth $1,500 right there, for students to be able to experience at first hand that "woo is boring".  |
i'd have to disagree with that. why waste $1500 on something that could have the same effect by reading a book, watching a tv show, listening to a radio pregram, etc? i mean you don't have to actually listen to a woowoo in person to learn the properties of woowoo? you think $1500 is worth the price but like Chip says $1500 could bought the university more valuable stuff, be it a better equipment, more books or better quality lecture talk.
and more importantly, where do they get that $1500 from? From us the students! did they ask us whether we want to have such guest speakers? I'd much rather have phil than Hasting and i think that speaks for most of the people here.