Nature Debater Mugs

"Toadstool you say? No, this is snailstool now!"

"I try to view the world in black and white and it still stinks."

"I wonder how the experts can talk about increasing temperatures within years... the same experts who can't even do a reliable forecast for tomorrow..."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Dialogue

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

"Now that's a win."

"I’ll give you an ‘Inconvenient Truth’!"

"You know who's tougher than all your little superheroes? The fossil fuel industry."

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

'I'm terribly worried, Doctor - he doesn't talk back to Bill O'Reilly any more.'

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

Flat-earthers and round-earthers reach a compromise.

Like Minded

Stegosaurus (say the evolutionists). Nonsense (say the creationists).

And now, for a rebuttal.

''Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense' Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895.'

Global warming debate.

"Woo-hoo!"

'My opponent hates cats.'

The last word.

Approved Debate Questions

Debate Club Note

Hot air ballon, but with the ballon replaced by a thought bubble.

Popular and Unpopular Science

"I don't know which makes me happier: switching to natural gas to save money or watching the fight about fracking in order to get that gas."

'What we must decide is if there is an accidental nuclear explosion which wipes out this entire part of the country, do we pass the cost on to the consumer?'

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.