Storm: The Animated Movie

[salvorhardin]

Run time: 10:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U   Posted on YouTube: April 07, 2011 By YouTube Member: stormmovie Views on YouTube: 45635   Posted on DU: April 09, 2011 By DU Member: salvorhardin Views on DU: 1015

 
A 10 minute beat poem raging against anti-scientific nonsense.

[Beams1969]

1. Tim Minchin is fantastic.

I heard the quote from another comedian, but I love "What do you call medicine that has been proven to work? Medicine."

[spooky3]

2. great!

[freedom fighter jh]

3. Very nicely done.

Still, I'm with Storm.

[stockholmer]

4. defo worth watching, but do not agree with the pro-pharma slant, I'm not defending homeopathy, just

saying it is a proven fact that many diseases can be treated , plus many cured with simple vitamin and mineral amounts, and the big pharma fuckers are trying ban the natural vitamins AFTER they patent artificially modified ones.

Also, when you subtract out for infant/childhood deaths (up to 5 years old, which were common 100 years back), people today are not living longer than they were 100 years ago.


Most of the movie was spot on, with those provisos above being my main objections.

[salvorhardin]

5. Well, Minchin is jabbing at straw men a bit

Nobody, at least nobody sane, thinks the pharmaceutical industry only has our best interests at heart. However, there are some people, like Storm, who go so far the other way, who think that anything natural must be good for you, and modern pharmaceuticals haven't helped at all.

As for the average lifespan, yeah, I groaned at that too. It's not so much that people are living longer but rather they're just not dying as early. I watched a PBS Nova special about Stonehenge the other night and the archaeologists pointed out that even the Atone Age Britons who first built Stonehenge likely lived quite long lives if they made it out of their youth. The upper end of our longevity has been pushed a little bit in the last 50 years, but it's not as if no one's grandparents weren't alive in the 1900s.

[Grassy Knoll]

6. Brilliant.....

I Loved the animation, but most important the message.