Media Advisory - HOW TO BECOME A REALLY GOOD PAIN IN THE ASS
August 17, 2011
Dr. Chris diCarlo begins tour across Canada to lecture, read from, and answer questions about his latest book.
How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass is an incisive, engaging, and entertaining guide to critical thinking and its benefits. Its purpose is to provide readers with tools to allow them to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to know what they’re talking about – from politicians and lawyers to bankers, doctors, the divinely inspired, and even your boss.
A really good pain in the ass is someone who is empowered with the ability to spot faulty reasoning and, by asking the right sorts of questions, hold people accountable not only for what they believe but how they behave.
Event Dates, Cities and Contacts
8/18/2011 | Vancouver, BC | Contact: Jamie Williams
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8/19/2011 | Kelowna, BC | Contact: Loren Price
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8/21/2011 | Kamloops, BC | Contact: Bill Ligertwood
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8/23/2011 | Calgary, AB | Contact: Nate Phelps
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8/24/2011 | Edmonton, AB | Contact: Brent Kelly
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8/26/2011 | Saskatoon, SK | Contact: Kendra Getty
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9/9/2011 | Toronto, ON | Contact: Derek Pert
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TBA | Ottawa, ON | Seanna Watson
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TBA | Montreal, ON | Brahim Abdenbi
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A nominal admission price will apply at the door.
Media are welcome to attend.
About Dr. Christopher DiCarlo
Voted TV Ontario’s Big Ideas Best Lecturer and Canadian Humanist of the Year by Humanist Canada in 2008, Dr. DiCarlo presents highly insightful and lively discussions. He is a past Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard University and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He has been invited to speak at numerous national and international conferences and has written many scholarly papers ranging from bioethics to cognitive evolution.
Comments:
#2 Guest (Guest) on Tuesday April 24, 2012 at 2:36am
How did DiCarlo arrive at the conclusion the questions he asks are the “right” questions? Maybe they’re “right” only in his mind. Obviously, or he wouldn’t go around lecturing on them.
This is all such a bunch of bull shit and subject to arrive at nothingness because GOD is sitting above the circle of the earth laughing at all the rebellious little “ants” running around looking on the ground for answers, and He’s thinking, “if they would only look up…..”
#1 Guest (Guest) on Tuesday April 24, 2012 at 2:24am
“..pain in the ass….hold people accountable for what they believe and how they behave…”
This writer is NOT accountable to anyone for what he believes or how he behaves. The whole concept smacks of wanting to control every thought and every action of anyone you don’t agree with. Sorry-not going to happen. I worked with a bitch who thought she could do that with her staff-take an educated guess who’s kicking horse turds down the highway?? Not me.
Am curious why a group would call themselves “FreeYhought Alliance” when obviously the goal is to remove free thought from all but the atheist “scientific” community? And please don’t tell me I’ve been “programmed” to think the way I do; There’s not a person walking this earth who’s thoughts haven’t been “programmed” by something he read or someone he’s listened to. You read; you listen, you form an opinion and either accept or reject. No one person has a monopoly on deciding what the next guy should believe or not believe; OR how he should behave.