Faith Healers Tricks Exposed! – Miracles For Sale
[7:35] To demonstrate how some faith healers lie to audiences, Derren Brown demonstrates the most common practices to …
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Robert Sapolsky: The Strange Monkey Gland Phenomenon
[5:40] In this clip Professor Robert Sapolsky explains what the Strange Monkey Gland Phenomenon is and why it was impor…
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Does Comfort Food Really Make You Feel Better?
[2:10] When you’re feeling down, chances are you sometimes turn to comfort foods to help boost your mood! Do thes…
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Susan Blackmore: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
[11:26] Some experiences can be unusual, vivid, and deeply personal. If you experienced something incredible or even …
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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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The power of the placebo effect
[4:37] The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren’t suppo…
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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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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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