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... and his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt? Are you forgetting the part where his mother is the heiress to the railroads and worth over 200 million? That probably has a bigger part in Cooper's being hired at CNN without formal education in the field than his CIA internships. Occam's Razor, which is the more probable case?

1. Anderson Cooper lives a life of privilege by being one of the rich white male children of one of the most successful families in US history, getting things given to him that others would have to work incredibly, unfairly hard for

2. Or, Anderson Cooper is a shadow-reporter for the CIA after two internships packed him with the secret training he needed to coerce the American public's news consumption.

How do you feel about PATV as a whole? Do you regret any parts of letting cameras so personally into Jerry/Mike/your lives? Or on the flip-side, do you really enjoy the chance to show the fans what life is like as the company; both to humanize and "sell" the product, but to act as an almost viral HR campaign?

(on a side note: your interaction with "DOG" at the PA retreat after PAX East last season was some of the most hilarious stuff I've ever seen.)

My question: Why are you so awesome?

(Seriously: No question, just wanted to say thank-you for helping science progress.

I work for a company that makes and sells antibodies for disease/viral research (i write the back-end software), and I always get thanked for my part in the process. But it's people like YOU, who care enough to take part in the actual testing process to help better humankind as a whole. YOU, sir, along with the doctors and scientists doing the research, are making up the pool of actual heroes and amazing folk doing their part to help mankind live longer and be greater.

Thank you for that, and may the simple offering of gold be a basic token way of saying, "you're awesome, thank you.")

There's a difference between talking about secret police and mock trials, things there are proof of ongoing activities and corruption, vs. an inflated scenario where two internships suddenly qualify you as some puppet reporter for the CIA. What is more likely, that Mr. Cooper's wealth and family got him the job he wanted CNN, or that he was chosen by the CIA via their internship Mockingbird training programs, leading the CIA's news revolution across the mighty giant CNN?

I get that you can't apply Occam's Razor to scenarios where outside forces can be skewing the metrics, such as with coersion or intentional attempts to impact outcome, but when your alternative argument is as ludicrous as CIA internships being proof of some revival of an early CIA news controlling initiative, I don't find it that hard to ask people to think a bit more carefully about the hypothesis they're suggesting.

seems guaranteed to backfire, doesn't it?

Backfired on me. Fuck you and your Mythbusters 'memberberries, Science Channel. Also fuck you for turning the memberberries into yet-another-shitty-fucking-host-search-show, you worthless, out-of-ideas talent vacuum of a writer's room.