Yes, but most people reading his book are considerably less important (at least, for my purposes) than people watching Laurence O’Donnell when he spends five minutes next week making fun of Glen Beck’s book. Or Maureen Dowd’s column when she does the same. Obviously if this is just a few pages in a little noticed book there is no problem with it at all (it’s basically neutral). If Beck decides to spend a lot of time talking about it, to the point that it becomes identifiable as “one of Beck’s ideas”, that would be bad. I don’t have a well-calibrated idea of how much publicity Beck gets these days or how often he puts out books which is why I’m unsure of the effect.
Beck is on the air hours a day, and he has put out about 20 books, with no end in sight. He was a wild-morning radio disc jokey and still uses that bombastic style, and never scrips out what he is going to say. His opponents just cut out tiny samples- the least politically correct stuff, to slam him with. Its very unlikely that Blue team commentators would ever get around to something this serious, when there are far more juicy bits.
This section mentions Kurzweil enough times (over 10 times), with other names, to make it very clear to anyone that this isn’t ‘beck’s’ idea.
Beck’s main ‘sciencey’ project he constantly promotes, funds, and fundraisers for is a cancer treatment where the patient is injected with metal nano particles that bond to the malignant tissue. The particles heat up under radio waves, bursting theses cells, leaving the rest of the body untouched. I’ve seen no evidence of other media outlets connecting this project with him, or any mention of this association at all.
It is my prediction that this will be ignored, as his critics have more to gain by ignoring any pro-sciencey Beck association.
But the vast majority of people reading his book will have a positive opinion of him.
Yes, but most people reading his book are considerably less important (at least, for my purposes) than people watching Laurence O’Donnell when he spends five minutes next week making fun of Glen Beck’s book. Or Maureen Dowd’s column when she does the same. Obviously if this is just a few pages in a little noticed book there is no problem with it at all (it’s basically neutral). If Beck decides to spend a lot of time talking about it, to the point that it becomes identifiable as “one of Beck’s ideas”, that would be bad. I don’t have a well-calibrated idea of how much publicity Beck gets these days or how often he puts out books which is why I’m unsure of the effect.
These seem like low probability concerns
Beck is on the air hours a day, and he has put out about 20 books, with no end in sight. He was a wild-morning radio disc jokey and still uses that bombastic style, and never scrips out what he is going to say. His opponents just cut out tiny samples- the least politically correct stuff, to slam him with. Its very unlikely that Blue team commentators would ever get around to something this serious, when there are far more juicy bits.
This section mentions Kurzweil enough times (over 10 times), with other names, to make it very clear to anyone that this isn’t ‘beck’s’ idea.
Beck’s main ‘sciencey’ project he constantly promotes, funds, and fundraisers for is a cancer treatment where the patient is injected with metal nano particles that bond to the malignant tissue. The particles heat up under radio waves, bursting theses cells, leaving the rest of the body untouched. I’ve seen no evidence of other media outlets connecting this project with him, or any mention of this association at all.
It is my prediction that this will be ignored, as his critics have more to gain by ignoring any pro-sciencey Beck association.
This evidence is sufficient for me to update to your level of concern.
He puts out books fairly frequently, I believe. I can’t attest to anything else. It’s been years since I paid attention to him.