Sentences with word «debunker»

There's also the role of Martin Heiss, a professional debunker of the supernatural who tries to disprove the antics of the Ghostbusters after some videos of theirs go viral.
Both magic debunker Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) and evil insurance businessman Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine) return as baddies, but they're overshadowed by Daniel Radcliffe's giggly sociopath Walter Mabry, a tech wizard who kidnaps the Horsemen to Macau, China and forces them to enact his revenge on a former business associate.
James Randi, famous debunker of frauds, talks about the «Amaz!ng Meeting» coming up in Las Vegas, and SciAm editor Mark Alpert discusses his new physics novel, Final Theory.
Like Houdini (a name not mentioned here), Stanley is not just a popular illusionist but a great debunker of fake spiritualists.
Agent Dylan Hobbs (Mark Ruffalo) is trying to uncover the truth behind the crime, and he enlists the help of Alma (Melanie Laurent) a seemingly suspicious Interpol agent, and Thaddeus (Morgan Freeman) a famed magic debunker in his investigation.
That Facebook pursued such a strategy is even less of a surprise than Google's imperious adoption of Wikipedia as conspiracy theory debunker: Facebook's motto was «Making the world more open and connected», and the company has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to do just that, whether users like it or not.
Academic debunkers of «professionalism,» preoccupied with their «discovery» that high - minded lawyers have frequently failed to live up to their professed ideals, have not been helpful in the current period of turmoil.
You see, the earnest debunkers assume that people believe that astrology is true and that if they could only convince them it were not, people would immediately cease to pay it any attention.
Murray and Weaver, along with other first film favourites such as Dan Aykroyd, Annie Potts and Ernie Hudson all make appearances, with Murray getting the most screen - time as a paranormal debunker.
A while back I brought to your attention the great analysis of my current research heroes — those delightful debunkers at the the National Education Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opposition.
Also helping out are professional debunkers like James Randi.
The true debunker recognizes this and stands firm in the religious value it presents.
Since such suggestions obviously relativize or water down the absolute rightness of any single position, the religious debunker will be accused of a lack of faith, a lack of commitment (even worse than a lack of faith), a lack of team spirit, a rebelliousness against divinely established authority and, naturally, an irreverence toward holy and sacred things.
Marxist debunking of claims of superiority for American principles or heroes (with Charles Beard cited as a representative debunker) is a third.
It appears that the kind of fundamentalism in which the Christian believer turned biblical debunker was raised did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in college.
Cohen is a friendly and persuasive debunker of all sorts of things, including cereals («Babies don't need to start with bland and tasteless solid foods») and bubble baths («Soap plus skin equals dryness....
there shouldn't be censorship, but Public Lies Debunker (or Truth Defender, whatever) Office.
Indeed, that's the judgment of Richard Wiseman, a British psychology researcher and avid debunker of pseudoscientific claims.
There is no science here, only the usual debunker's «true - believer» reflex, wanting at all costs to exclude a form of life, not of earth, that has a head and speaks to us in some way.
A key speaker is the notable China Study debunker, Denise Minger.
A television debunker of the paranormal receives three cases that test his skepticism.
Mark Ruffalo and Melanie Laurent play a cop and an Interpol agent trying to figure out how and why they're doing it, Morgan Freeman is a professional debunker trying to help them put the pieces together, and Michael Caine is the producer of the Four Horsemen show.
Then we challenge the notorious debunker to a game we call Adam Fixes Everything, about famously broken things.
Nevertheless, the FBI is on their trail in the form of Agent Dylan Rhodes (Ruffalo, The Avengers), who is collaborating with Interpol's Alma Dray (Laurent, Beginners) in sniffing out just what's going on, while world - class debunker Thaddeus Bradley (Freeman, Oblivion) is determined to out the quartet's best tricks to the public they've become heroes to.
Mattison spends a good amount of time establishing that dreary, isolated atmosphere, as Kelly Johansen (Rose McGowan), an amateur debunker of paranormal phenomena, sets up shop in an empty, underground train station beneath Toronto.
Renowned illusionists and professional debunkers Penn & Teller unite for this documentary investigation into the mysterious methods of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer, whose photo - realistic paintings predated the invention of the camera by 150 years.
This Brit independent, recently shown at SXSW, features three different stories investigated by a paranormal activity debunker, saw an unexpectedly strong reaction at the IFC Center, while also available on home viewing venues.
He's the new dean of the Edgewood College School of Education and self - proclaimed debunker of «any «media» that prints stupid comments from education reformers,» according to the liberal education website At the Chalk Face.
Richter's «take» on life appears to be that of a man permanently focused on «the dark side of the road,» and he has consequently been called many negative things: «dour undertaker, dry - eyed mourner, systematic debunker of clichés and lethal parodist,» among others, writes Robert Storr, in the huge catalogue which accompanies the exhibition, «Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting.»
One thematic is evident from from the first catalogue essay, Peter Lamont's «Secrets of Debunking,» which describes debunkers of all persuasions.
Like other debunkers, of course, he is more of a truth seeker than a truth teller, given that scientific knowledge is, by nature, a moving target.
He has been called «The sharpest climate denial debunker on YouTube» and «The most important videographer on the planet.»
Our professor is John Cook, the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland and the founder of Skeptical Science, which over the past two years has been an invaluable resource for me, a newbie debunker of deniers.
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He plays a Blaine / Copperfield - type showman who leads a group of magicians (Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher) on a series of possibly illegal stunts that attract the attention of the FBI (Mark Ruffalo) and a famous debunker of magicians» tricks (Morgan Freeman).
The artist's grandfather, along with his pal Harry Houdini, was a great debunker of spiritualist frauds.
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