James Randi: Psychic Surgery
[4:30] James Randi demonstrating Psychic Surgery on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the 1980s. [Source: JamesR…
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Dan Ariely: The Truth About Dishonesty
[28:46] Dan Ariely, bestselling author and professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University vis…
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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 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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Crash Course Philosophy #28: How Words Can Harm
[10:45] Content warning: today’s episode contains language that some viewers might find upsetting and that may not …
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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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