I suspect some of you have watched a different clip! This one doesn't attack or pigeonhole anyone - it simply and reasonably straightforwardly refutes the notion that skepticism equates with closed-mindedness. For anyone whose been treated like a pariah for politely declining to affirm a particular alternative or new age worldview - and it happens a lot in the real world, helped on by (amongst other things) lazy journalism, greedy enterpreneurs and a population desperately seeking health and happiness - I think it is strangely reassuring. I'm happy for people to believe what they want, as long as it doesn't harm others. Just don't ask me to agree... as I said to a client recently, when I was taking him to see his psychiatrist because he wanted to get his medication reduced, "just don't mention the aliens"...

I do agree that you're not going to win over hearts and minds by calling people cement heads or coming across as superior or supercilious or whatever, but happily this clip does not fall into those traps. I do wonder sometimes, though, if when I say, "I'm sorry, but I can't share your beliefs," there is an assumption by some listeners that I'm silently adding, "and I think they're really shit"...