a drop of dawn and grease is gone. [ applause ] . john: there was a small shooting? we need more gun control. drug addiction? we need a war on drugs. saturated fat? government m this rule making based on fear
i think because they sneak into our houses at night and they move very fast when we turn the lights on in the eat rfid. john: sila ladybug doesn t dardenne doesn t sneak and we like ladybugs. they are pretty and we have been taught that they eat bad insects. john: you have it. discuss. a lot of the critters that we are afraid of evoke a feeling of disgust because they look kind of gross. we have very strong social scripts associating these kinds of things and with ladybugs you don t get that same kind of linkage to something disgusting. john: you are leaning that way too. lyle, thank you. you ve will be back later with your creepy friends. in times square a number of people said they fear clowns.
. john: welcome back, while the animal handler and assistant cat have moved into the audience with their scary looking friends, at least some of the audience is freaked out by one of these guys. yet none of these snakes is really a threat to us. we are programmed to fear minor threats like that. it s something to contemplate as we face our fears this halloween. now it s your turn, and our studio audience s turn to talk back to tonight s guests. fear sociologist margee kerr and the heartland institute s james taylor. who s first? you just have no issues, what s your question, stop stroking it. [ laughter ] on the issue of running out of resources, now food and water are essentially nonissues at this point. but hydro carbon based fuels in
we evolved to make sure it works really well and fast and motivates change really quickly. john: yes? my question goes to mr. taylor. are you bothered by the snake next to you? not at all, not at all. i can understand [ laughter ] . go ahead. okay. i can understand the fact that there s really no threat on the loss of natural resources like natural gas and oil during our lifetimes, but i do say that there s a legitimate fear of the effects of the extraction of these natural resources such as contaminating public water supplies. there really isn t, we should be taking steps to make sure it s done in a environmental responsible manner. we pretty much do that. basically inject that underground, hundreds of feet
junk food makes us fat, but there s no cheese doodles, twizzlers in the supermarkets near here but she s obese. she s eating a diet largely in grains carbohydrates low in fat. this guy on the right is a warrior in kenya, studied by scientists in the late 1970s. they found that the warriors had very low cholesterol, it did not rise with age, they had very low blood pressure. john: they ate meat, fat. two to four pounds of meat a day and two liters of milk, and the other things they ate were blood. so a diet of over 60% of their diet was animal food, and yet they were in perfect health. john: it turns out that coconut oil is good for you? that s another reversal. in the 1980s, we removed those from the food supply and instead we brought in