Comments by "Philip Rayment" (@PJRayment) on "Bill Maher: College Has Become an Outright Scam" video.

  1.  @AbeerKDas  "this youtube channel is paid by big oil companies to spread bias." Unlike other universities which are paid by taxpayers without their consent, to spread a different bias. Nothing wrong with being biased if it's the right bias.
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  2.  @AbeerKDas  "bias means misinformation and handpicked data." No, it does not. The Collins dictionary says that it's "a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing." It also often means that that tendency is unfair, but that's not a necessary part of the meaning of the word. And yes, bias can often be wrong (when it's applied unfairly, when it results in people cherry-picking, when they allow misinformation to creep in), but it's not necessarily wrong. Which is why I referred to having the right bias. I'm biased towards wanting facts and evidence, for example. "i just said NO ONE is ur friend" Which is wrong too. I have friends, and perhaps more to the point, I have people, groups, and organisations that I can trust.
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  3. "it has always been the conservative, religious right that wanted kids to go to school/university because that's the "christian, disciplined" way to go." Well, it was Christianity that started universal education and even before that founded quite a few universities, but then yes, it's generally a good goal to have assuming that the education is a good one. But typically these days it's not.
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  4.  @maximustrolleus9860  "but hes saying this channel has the wrong kind of bias too." I don't believe that he was. He was claiming that being biased is wrong, and that this channel is wrong because it's biased. "School is all about facts and evidence so isnt that good bias?" Schools is supposed to be about that, but these days often isn't.
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  5.  @maximustrolleus9860  "ppl call bias to anything they disagree with." Yes, some do. Not all. "well then how do you even know what the truth even is." How do we know anything? We look at evidence. "Like i said its subjective as indoctrination can be anything that you simply disagree with." Only if you're misusing the word. Indoctrination is to be taught to accept something uncritically. Alex Blaze is also wrong when he says "If something can be proven as true, then it’s not indoctrination". You can indoctrinate someone in true things. Although perhaps that's what he meant with his qualifier. "The earth is proven to be round but to a flat earther that is indoctrination." What "is indoctrination"? The earth being round? No, to be clear, a flat earther would say that the the acceptance of a round earth is because of indoctrination. "To a creationist, evolution is indoctrination and to a scientist, it is truth." No, to a creationist, evolution is accepted because of indoctrination, while an evolutionist believes it to be truth. The contrast is between creationist and evolutionist, not between creationist and scientist. There are scientists on both sides of that debate. And that is a good example. Evolution IS taught uncritically. Even teachers who have not taught creation, but have taught evolution with its problems have been fired or otherwise stopped from doing so, because dissent if forbidden. "So you see how it can be subjective?" No, it's not necessarily subjective. Sometimes it might be, but often it's simply people bandying the term about without evidence. "...solipsism which basically states that nothing in this world is true..." Which, if left at that, is obviously self-refuting. "...and that the only thing you could ever truthfully know..." So nothing is true except ... ? "...is the fact that your mind exists and that everything else is subjective." So if those two things are true, why can't other things be. I know you're only citing, not making, that argument, but... "In fact there is a whole philosophy called solipsism..." ... citing an incoherent philosophy doesn't show that bias and indoctrination are subjective. Only that some people seem unable to be objective.
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