Jul 16 2012
Caption this: Dr. Gorski meets Dr. Whitaker
Earlier today, I gave you the blow-by-blow description of a debate that occurred on Thursday between Dr. Steve Novella and Dr. Julian Whitaker. After that debate, I got an opportunity to “discuss” one of Dr. Whitaker’s points, specifically a scientifically illiterate graph that he had constructed. Because Dave Patton was there doing photography of the event for Michael Shermer, I suggested that we do a picture, even though Dr. Whitaker was still on the podium. The picture came out…well, differently than I had expected. Looking at it again, though, I see that this is a perfect picture to have a little fun with, so I’m going to. Let’s have our SBM readers do something we haven’t done before on this blog. It’s a little thing called “Caption This.” In the comments, I’d like to see what sort of caption you think to be appropriate for this photo.
Have fun, and if I like any of them particularly well, I might add them to the picture and post them here and on Facebook.
36 Responses to “Caption this: Dr. Gorski meets Dr. Whitaker”
“I’ll get you!
And your little dog too!”
Dr. Whitaker: “Are you sure there’s something wrong with the y-axis?”
Dr. Gorski: “Yes, I’m 120% sure.”
“Turn SkepticalHealth over to me…or else!”
“And the worst part about vaccines is that they jab you in the shoulder… like this!”
The obvious ones:
W: “Who is this man sitting in front of me unwilling to make eye contact? And unwilling to pull my finger?”
G: “[To self] I’d don’t know if I really want the new Mac Book Pro with the retina display…but it sure is shiny.”
Podium Guy [to thunderous applause]: “Alphas, perhaps one day ALL our Libertarian dreams will come true: no more roads, no more schools, no more encroaching social safety nets to aid the weakling Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons who couldn’t survive the free hand of a gloriously unfettered market, AND especially no more of those vaccinated weaklings whose liberty-to-die-from-preventable-diseases was so obscenely interfered with…”
-r.c.
“Excuse me, I didn’t bring any science with me. Could I borrow some of yours?”
Look I’ll admit that debate didn’t go very well, but did you really have to make so many jokes about my Johnny Cash getup?
“You laugh, but a branded Gorski vitamin line will revolutionize your burgeoning little empire.”
Some good ones already.
“Hey you! You’re gonna have to pay for those three Homeopathic Colas! That’ll be $99.95.”
“You need to take Whitaker’s seminal ideas more seriously!” (Thought bubble over Gorski: “Beige. They painted the walls beige.”
“You should stand up first. When I sit down like that I can’t think or talk very well.”
“I’m telling you, man, -read- ‘The Fountainhead.’ It explains everything.”
Or perhaps just play a little Sesame Street music: “One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t belong….”
G: That graph was hilarious!
W: Keep it up and I’ll send my flying monkeys to your blog!
G: Did they create that graph? You promised to tell me how that graph was made.
Hulk Smash!
Are you gonna eat that graph?
I’m not a real doctor, I just play one at anti-vax debates
That’s not fair using facts and stuff
And my amplifiers go to eleven too!
Can I borrow that crayon? I’ve got an idea for another graph.
PJLandis:
Puny data!
You dirty doctor, you killed my fath – I mean, graph! You dirty doctor!
“I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you and your meddling science and logic!”
“Oh yeah? You like that? You just got yourself another 1 hour detention, mister?”
This is quite possibly very offensive, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s the expression on your face.
http://cheezburger.com/6432558336
On second thought, maybe it’s too offensive all things considered…
“The Emperor does too have new clothes!”
Mandrake!…errr Shermer! You wanna introduce a foreign substance into my precious bodily fluids. That’s how your hard-core commie works!
“Excuse me, but could you move aside a moment, you’re sitting on my brains. . . “
W: Now – I have just told you all about them germie wormies and antineoplastons – get it!!
G: The stupid it burns.
I fell innnnto a burnin’ ring of science. And it burned burned burned! That ring of science, that ring of science…
“That’s my final offer Dave…a new car in your driveway…if you promise not to blog about the debate debacle”
“Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father…”
W: “You can’t answer that one, can you? CAN YOU?!?!”
G: “That’s actually a pretty good question. How much wood *would* a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
DrW – “I have just the thing to treat you, you know…”
DrG – “And it’s every bit as effective as homeopathic vaccination, right?”
measles and all those other …….uh…….diseases never existed anyway, so there
Dr. W: “I just goose stepped all over your ass.”
Dr. Gorski: “Oh look Dr.Shermer, it is the missing link you evolutionists were looking for.”
W: “You look like you’d better rethink your supplement foundation. Get some modified citrus pectin too. Check my website.”
For a more concise caption for Dr. Gorski: “Shermer, look, the missing link…”
Assuming this picture was taken shortly before the debate…
W: “Leeeeroyyyyyy!!!!”
Dr. G: “At least he got chicken.”
“I’m telling ya Jules, I’ve heard THIS ONE before too! Sure, it’s a nice bit of buffoonery… and granted, it’s a better gag than that vaccines shtick from your stand-up routine … but go pull your own finger!”
Dr. W: Hey, Gorski, did you take my chart that I planning to present tonight?
Dr. G, to self: Ha, wish I had but no point; he’d just pull another one out of his arse.