Wegstock lectures 14: Jerry Clore – Anticipation / Placebo
[11:20] [Video source: Joe Paxton You Tube channel]…
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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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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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2-Minute Neuroscience: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
[2:00] SSRIs are the most widely-used treatment for depression, and have been since their introduction to the market i…
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Steven Novella – Research on acupuncture
[4:52] Do sticking needles into the body help to heal or just another placebo. Steve Novella offers his researched opin…
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