All right, lets get started. Let me remind you to turn off the sound on your cell phones. This is our number 3263, denial in the face of fact. I asked for a science panel, i got an antiscience panel. [laughter] tom so im tom blumen thatll. Im the former chair of molecular and Development Biology here in boulder. I am the director of the institute for Downs Syndrome at the medical school. Let me briefly introduce the subject. I want you to imagine a world where they were accepted. Where nobody was deliberately underseeking to undermine these facts just because they stood to gain financially or because they seem at odds with their religious beliefs. Huge numbers of americans simply dont believe facts, people believing in the truth matter as lot not because it affects the truth but because whether or not we act based on truth or fiction matter as lot. This isnt a scientific issue. Its a political one. Todays panelists will address the thorny question of how to get people to believe facts
Yes oh, come on not a happy bunny then. Anyway, serena, take it from me. We dont want you any other way. Keep showing that hunger, that desire, that passion to be the best. Its what makes you a great champion. And remember, if you want to come and have a rematch, think you can cope with the emotions it will bring out in you, im ready anytime. Thats all for us tonight. Thats all for us tonight. Anderson cooper starts now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com theres breaking news tonight and no shortage of compelling stories. Theres the unwilling unwitting face of a hoax. This womans face stolen, used in the strangest con game College Football has ever seen. Well ask diane omeara what it was like to have no connection at all to manti teo yet be known by millions as his fictitious girlfriend. And later we take you inside scientology. My interview with a man whos uncovered details no one else has and can back it up with reporting like no one else can. We begin with breaking news. A military s
Not a happy bunny then. Take it from me, we dont want you any other way. Keep showing that hunger, that desire, that passion to be the best. Its what makes you a great champion. Remember if you want a rematch, think you can cope with the emotions it will bring out in you, im ready anytime. Thats it for us tonight. Theres breaking news tonight and no shortage of compelling stories. Theres the unwilling unwitting face of a hoax. This womans face stolen, used in the strangest con game College Football has ever seen. Well ask diane omeara what it was like to have no connection at all to manti teo yet be known by millions as his fictitious girlfriend. And later we take you inside scientology. My interview with a man whos uncovered details no one else has and can back it up with reporting like no one else can. We begin with breaking news. A military story that could also seriously alter the political battlefield perhaps for decades to come. Cnn has learned that tomorrow defense secretary leo
Most regular church-goers have heard their less scrupulously observant fellows called "Christmas and Easter Christians." Well, they also have their counterparts in the mainstream media: "Christmas and Easter Anti-Christians." How else to explain the spate of skeptical, negative stories that inevitably accompany the two most important Christian holy days? This Holy Week has been typical. Newsweek proclaimed "The Decline and Fall of Christian America" on its cover. The Washington Post/Newsweek "On Faith" blog featured a post that belittled the significance of Jesus' death and resurrection. The Discovery Channel aired a documentary that painted Jesus as little more than an opportunistic politician who caught a bad break in a trial. These are just the most notable recent instances of secular media's disdain for traditional Christians and the tenets of their faith. Anti-Christianism is the last acceptable prejudice. The assault on Christian