You seem to have missed the point of the video entirely.

You can't know that not airing appraisals won't stop one person from trying to acquire ivory any more than I can know that AR taking action as proposed would.

Wow, it looks .7" bigger.

What do you think about that, Neil DeGrasse Tyson?

Not at all. All I'm suggesting is that burying your head in the sand and pretending something doesn't exist is no way to tackle a serious issue. You achieve change by education and awareness.

Given the very dire state of all wild elephant populations, why not?

Unfortunately its very easy to 'antique' ivory much like you can antique copper or bronze....

Well, I don't quite see what appraising antiques has to do with the modern ivory trade. We're talking about antiques here- items made long before they started banning ivory. The ivory trade used to be socially acceptable. It's sad, but true. Pretending otherwise by banning ivory antiques on PBS won't save a single…

"Belief" simply means to accept something as true. I think a lot of people get hung up on the word "belief" or "believe" because they associate it with "faith", or more specifically, "blind faith." However, one can accept scientific findings as true, as I think all of us here do, which is believing.

The conflict between science and religion is real, because one can have either faith or science, but not both.

A scene from Star Wars: Episode IX: The Return to Endor

So, what you're saying is that creating a fictional scenario as an educational tool has absolutely no place in education? What about military war games? What about word problems in math? What about fictional companies in MBA programs? Mock trials in law school? These are all fake scenarios that illustrate points…

Just don't accidentally bend your hands up- you'll impale the back of your hands.

Good Lord, why would you spend more time in the subway than necessary? Gross.

Ha! I didn't know that was a Biblical reference. Look at me, being clever by accident.

Many theists would say it's true too. They would be wrong. The false dichotomy here suggests that you have two choices- accept science or accept religion. There is no other choice. This is false, as it is entirely possible to be a person of faith and accept what science has discovered as fact. There are many,…

Well, if you assume that religion serves only to explain that which is unexplainable, then it's true. However, religions also serve as a moral compass and an ethical foundation for society, which is something pure science cannot do. Religion is a guide for how to live your life.

It isn't true, though. A false dichotomy is when two opposing statements are considered to be the only possible options, when in reality there are more. In this case, the false dichotomy is either you accept what is written in the Bible, or you accept scientific findings- there can't be another option. This is a…

Science takes all the fun out of science fiction.

Yet, the underlying sentiment of both these statements bother me, in that they suggest a false dichotomy between faith and science—the idea that you can believe in the Bible or you can believe in evolution, but you can't believe in both.