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Ten Great Ideas: Pseudoscience
| Why people believe weird things | Link | Michael Shermer sums it all up on TED. 14 mins | 5 Star |
Homeopathy |
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| Homeopathy in the emergency room | Pi#@ from Mitchell and Webb. Youtube. 3 mins | 5 Star | |
| Dara O Brian takes no prisioners in condemning homeopathy | Youtube. 6 mins | 5 Star | |
| Richard Dawkins explains homeopathy | Youtube. 10 mins. First half is useful, second half is an interview with a homepathic doctor | 5 Star | |
| Horizon (BBC) investigates objectively. | Begins with an explanation of homeopathy. YouTube. 10 mins. Part 1 of 5. | 4 Star | |
| Or you can read a short summary of the Horizon program here | Link | From the BBC itself. | |
| And don't give me the "oh but it's organic" line. | Another stand-up routine. YouTube. 1 min | 5 Star | |
| How about a homeopathic physics lesson from Dr Werner. | YouTube. 8 mins. It's not easy to bring E = mc squared into homeopathy, but bless her she tries. The mind boggles. | 5 Star | |
| Psychic spoon benders | |||
| It doesn't quite work for Uri Geller | From YouTube. 14 mins. Last 5 mins is on tele-evangelism | 5 Star | |
| Lauren and Fry - spot any similarities to the previous link? | YouTube comedy clip. 3 mins | 5 Star | |
| Dowsing | |||
| Did you know that the Iraqi government has spent 85 million dollars on glorified dowsing rods for use as bomb detectors | That's because they cost 40,000 dollars each and . Youtube. 10 mins. It's called the ADE-651 so it must be legit. According to CBS News, the training included instructions to Iraqi users to "shuffle their feet to generate static electricity to make the things work." | 5 Star | |
| Or just go to the explanation of dowsing at 4:45 mins into the same clip | And there you have it. | 5 Star | |
| James Randi tests a dowser | YouTube. 10 mins. Of course this doesn't prove anything either. So how would you carry out a scientific study? | 4 Star | |
| Astrology | |||
| Carl Sagan | YouTube. 9 mins | 5 Star | |
| James Randi offers a simple test to debunk astrology. | Youtube. 3 mins | 5 Star | |
| Bill Nye spots a flaw with astrology | YouTube. 1 min | 5 Star |