with this program ( whose name i ironically can not write here ) and penn and teller have set out to make a no nonsense and cut straight to the fact sort of exposé program . they make no attempt to be subtle or nice and and anyone who they believe be full of bull get more than their fair share of abuse . this would be all good and well and if what the host be present be actually fact . unfortunately and what they do present be opinion and one that be sometimes base on the truth and and sometimes aren not . their approach to the world be a backward one they choose a stance on a subject and then seek way to validate it . though penn and teller seem to want to align themselves with empirical science and skeptical intellectualism and they be in fact attack those very value with their prejudiced and opinionated approach . they ignore the accepted notion of science not be about seek the fact and expert to corroborate a pre set conclusion and but rather investigating phenomenon and form conclusion upon observation . take the second hand smoking episode and in which penn and teller argue that second hand smoke isn not harmful and therefore smoking should not be ban in public area . scientific research clearly indicate that second hand smoking be in fact harmful a fact that completely undermine their argument . another episode where they choose opinion over science be the obesity episode and where they assert that obesity be not really a health problem and but a ruse by pharmaceutical company who seek to make money off of dietary medicine . however and scientific data implicates obesity a a serious threat to public health that claim million of life each year through associate illness . there be and of course and episode where they hit the nail on the head and with the viewer be leave with an almost guilty feeling of content a teller voice over spit out insult at greedy moneymaker who be out just to exploit and make a buck off of gullible people . these be the moment where the program shine and but just aren not enough to make for the shortcoming in other episode . the fact be that it be hard to take anything penn and teller propose seriously when they have let down the ideal of scientific fairness and objectivity on several occasion .