They also did an episode about recycling being bullshit, which was full of misinformation.
Great magicians, but dishonest skeptics.
But doesn't everyone sort of agree now that it really is bullshit? Were they right but for the wrong reasons?
Re:Email a Dumpster Fire
by jackdeansmith on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:00PM
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Plastic recycling is mostly B.S., it's difficult and so energy intensive that it's usually better for the environment to landfill the old plastic and make new stuff. Metal and paper recycling is very environmentally sound though.
> Metal and paper recycling is very environmentally sound though.
Glass too.
Hey, I've recently been marathoning this show. I'd say your description is as dishonest as you accuse penn and teller of being.
In that episode, they mainly point to paper and plastic recyclables as being net societal losses in 2003 when the episode was filmed. They only talk about metal and glass briefly, because it's pretty apparent that it is efficient to recycle metal and glass.
For what it's worth I don't actually think you are being dishonest, just hyperbolic.
Their passive smoking episode is famous for being absolute crap
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!#L...
The show pretends to be just about calling out "bullshit", but sprinkles in a lot of politics and opinions.
> There is evidence for global warming, though there's considerable reason to believe this is simply part of a natural cycle. There is some evidence that humans may contribute at least a bit to the change (though many sources suggest that human pollution is insignificant compared with forest fires, volcanos, etc.).
This is underhanded, weasel-word denialism. "Many sources suggest" my ass... Let's not give any credibility to this kind of bullshit.