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Re-uploaded from YouTube. http://neuron.duke.edu/Lettvin/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leary-Le... Notable if only for the first utterance of a 'curse word' on television... --- It finally occurred, but under most unusual conditions. The debate, in 1967, had been proposed months earlier against a different professor who became unavailable on the day of the debate. The organizers scrambled to find any professor who would debate Leary. After exhausting other candidates they came to Jerry's lab and asked him to do it. In his shirtsleeves, up from the middle of an experiment in frog vision, he debated Leary extemporaneously. In the debate with Timothy Leary about the merits of LSD, Jerry hurled the timeless epithet "Bullshit!" at Leary, who was sitting in the lotus position near a candle. This in response to Leary (a licensed psychologist) claiming he would diagnose the frank symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy as a religious experience. This was the first time that this epithet had been heard on TV but, in Bud Collins words: Lettvin gave us one of TV's finer moments. (There are so few of them.) In the context his cry came not as a disgusting profanity, but as the expression of an extremely articulate man who, poring over his vast vocabulary, realizes that this is the only word that cuts through all the dialogues and analyzes and goes to the heart of Leary's religion of LSD. Sometimes the right word has to come from the street and not the laboratory or the seminar. ----- This video is in the public domain. It aired on WGBH-TV, a non-commercial educational PBS member television station in Boston.

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