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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Andrew Newberg: 5 Steps to Achieve Enlightenment — All Supported by Science
[13:53] Andrew Newberg, director of research at Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, explains the f…
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Workshop: What you can do to fight the woo
[1:28:30] Learn how YOU can DO something important. Check out this workshop from TAM 2014 with Robert Blaskiewicz, Sus…
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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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Harriet Hall: Lecture 9 – Pitfalls in Research
[44:13] We depend on science for our knowledge, but a lot of things can go wrong in scientific research that can mislead u…
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How Childhood Trauma Can Make You A Sick Adult
[7:15] Big Think and the Mental Health Channel are proud to launch Big Thinkers on Mental Health, a new series dedicated …
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Harriet Hall: Lecture 10 – Science-Based Medicine in the Media and Politics
[44:44] We have regressed from the Age of Enlightenment to an Age of Endarkenment. The public is appallingly ignorant a…
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