Placebo Debater Gifts

I hope that's not a prescription for another placebo, Dr. Kapuchnik. Frankly, Al, you've proven that you can't handle a placebo. This is a prescription for a fake placebo.

Dialogue

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

"Now that's a win."

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

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

"You want a generic or a regular sugar pill?"

Need a vitaminlike pill, but don't want to risk the side effects? Then try the world's first multivitamin placebo! They don't do any good, but they don't do any harm either.

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

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

For the last time, Bobby, I told you – every other person gets the red cup with the placebo. Lemonade 50¢.

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

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

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

"I hate it when the palcebo does better than the drugs we're testing."

Like Minded

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

And now, for a rebuttal.

Celestial Navigation

Today on the Ask Sadie Show, we'll be addressing one single topic: Wondering. In my day, when a body said I wonder why dust bunnies are called dust bunnies, it led to all sorts of delightful speculation. We could while away hours debating whether it was a marketing ploy by big broom ... or whether it dated back to Napoleon, who had a fetish for dirty rabbits. And if we were lucky, opinions could get so heated that fisticuffs would ensue. Wondering is just one of many lovely human experiences utt

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

The last word.

'Doctor, one placebo or two with your tea?'

If You Can't Beat Them

Global warming debate.

'My opponent hates cats.'

Approved Debate Questions

"And today if the prosecutor says 'Liar, liar, pants on fire,' do not turn around to check."

'Actually, I'm a placebo psychiatrist.'

Debate Club Note

'This doesn't look good. I'm afraid you've developed an immunity to placebos.'

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

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Arguing with Edna was enough to make the brain fly out of any logical man.