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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

CANCELING CRITICAL THINKING

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

NYU Professor, Mark Crispin Miller, is the latest victim in the era of cancel culture. During his popular “Propaganda” class, Miller offered his students information from both sides of the mask discussion, citing scientific evidence and promoting critical thinking on the divisive topic. What happened next might shock you…

Transcript

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0:00.0

As you know, I travel all over the country.

0:03.7

I speak at state capitals.

0:05.7

I speak to private groups.

0:07.6

I speak at health conventions and things like that.

0:10.5

But one of my favorite speaking opportunities has already happened a couple of times.

0:15.2

And it led to a story I've told on this show.

0:17.3

I was at NYU, speaking to a classroom.

0:21.1

And I said to them, you know, if there was a nonprofit that was the greatest nonprofit

0:27.2

the world had ever seen.

0:28.9

They heal the sick.

0:30.6

In Africa, they have taken away the sewage out of the rivers and put in clean running

0:34.8

water wells with filtration systems and bathrooms.

0:38.3

And they've done it in India and they've saved the rhinoceros and the monarch butterfly.

0:42.5

There's nothing that this nonprofit hasn't achieved in making the world a better place.

0:47.5

Only one slight problem.

0:50.7

Once a year, this nonprofit takes a perfectly healthy child and sacrifices them.

0:57.4

I want to ask you here in this class and I did this at NYU, how many of you would donate

1:03.3

or want to work for that nonprofit?

1:05.1

Remember, everything it does is great.

1:07.4

But once a year, we have to sacrifice an innocent child.

1:10.7

You know how many people raise their hands?

1:13.0

That's right.

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