Ending the battle between vegans, vegetarians, and everyone else
[18:07] This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Many people are aware …
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 1 – Science Based Medicine vs.Evidence Based Medicine
[37:00] Our ancestors lived in a pre-scientific world where the evolution of “logically illogical” thinking hel…
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 2 – What is CAM?
[36:08] Lecture 1 was about what science-based medicine is; this lecture is about what it isn’t and includes a discus…
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 3 – Chiropractic
[35:46] Chiropractic is a pre-scientific belief system based on a mythical concept, the chiropractic “subluxatio…
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Kelly McGonigal: How to have more willpower
[4:39] HOW TO HAVE MORE WILLPOWER – THE WILLPOWER INSTINCT BY KELLY MCGONIGAL ANIMATED BOOK REVIEW. Great book. …
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 4 – Acupuncture
[31:48] Alternative medicine is medicine that hasn’t been proven to work. Most people think acupuncture has been pr…
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 5 – Homeopathy
[32:32] Many people have no idea what homeopathy is; they think it’s just some kind of herbal medicine. Actually it…
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 6 – Naturopathy and Herbal Medicines
[43:57] Naturopathy is an ill-defined system based on vitalistic mythology; it combines commonsense health and nutr…
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 7 – Energy Medicine
[36:58] Energy medicine claims that there is an energy field undetectable by scientific instruments that somehow get…
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 8 – Miscellaneous “Alternatives”
[42:38] There are recurrent memes or myths in CAM that refuse to die. Like zombies, they keep rising up again no matter ho…
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