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HARRIET HALL – SCIENCE BASED MEDICINE

[37:00] Our ancestors lived in a pre-scientific world where the evolution of “logically illogical” thinking hel…

[36:08] Lecture 1 was about what science-based medicine is; this lecture is about what it isn’t and includes a discus…

[35:46] Chiropractic is a pre-scientific belief system based on a mythical concept, the chiropractic “subluxatio…

[31:48] Alternative medicine is medicine that hasn’t been proven to work. Most people think acupuncture has been pr…

[32:32] Many people have no idea what homeopathy is; they think it’s just some kind of herbal medicine. Actually it�…

[43:57] Naturopathy is an ill-defined system based on vitalistic mythology; it combines commonsense health and nutr…

[36:58] Energy medicine claims that there is an energy field undetectable by scientific instruments that somehow get…

[42:38] There are recurrent memes or myths in CAM that refuse to die. Like zombies, they keep rising up again no matter ho…

[44:13] We depend on science for our knowledge, but a lot of things can go wrong in scientific research that can mislead u…

[44:44] We have regressed from the Age of Enlightenment to an Age of Endarkenment. The public is appallingly ignorant a…