Category: pleasure of knowledge
The Captivating Power of Reality- Guy P. Harrison, Leighann Lord
(This talk took place on August 19, 2021.) Author Guy P. Harrison is a passionate advocate for science and reason. He describes critical thinking as a moral issue and points to the neglect of good thinking skills and basic science education as humankind’s “great unrecognized crisis”. Guy aggressively...
Interview with an ex-homeopath
ve interview on stream with an ex-homeopath Arif Hussain’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/arifhuss… My homeopathy video: https://youtu.be/c9B30BAKqEA Chapters 00:00 – Introduction 03:33 – Why did you leave homeopathy and when? 11:15 – The transition period of leaving homeopathy 14:53 – Respect of the Science communication community 15:47 – The legal...
How we believe things!!How Your Brain Understands the World and Why It Sometimes Gets It Wrong-Jeff Hawkins
How do we understand the world? The brain receives a constant stream of input from our sensors and from this creates a model of the world. What we perceive, our thoughts and experiences, are based on the brain’s model. Unfortunately, the model of the world in our head...
The Anti-Vax Movement and its rise in India –
he Anti-Vax Movement – how did it start? And is it becoming a problem in India?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-h6GaLOVY&t=0s
Superstition: The Full Story-Stuart Vyse
eople have believed in things unseen since the beginning of time, and in many cases, they have endured ridicule and much worse. In the middle ages, thousands of women were burned at the stake for allegedly engaging in witchcraft, which was considered a superstition in Christian Europe. Being...
Illness, Healing, and Other Terms That Can Be Confusing(Harriet Hall)-Skeptical Inquirer Volume 45, No. 4)
Disease vs. Illness The words disease and illness are often used interchangeably, but their meanings are very different. Diseases are biomedical entities that cause impairment of the normal functioning of the body, while illness refers to the way a patient experiences a sickness. There can be disease without...
Situation Critical- Skeptical Inquirer Presents(CFI)
It may seem a big claim, but knowing how to think clearly and critically has literally helped save the world. In September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s early warning system showed five US missiles heading towards the country. Stanislaw Petrov knew his...
Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC and the Hijacking of America’s Response to the Pandemic | Nina Burleigh(Presented by Center for Inquiry)
A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, the world watched as the disease killed half a million and counting, and brought the nation to its knees. A stunned nation has...
How Dr. BM Hegde misrepresents medicine Dr. Abby Philips | Pseudoscience Police
Dr. BM Hegde misrepresents medicine. The only people that are fans of him are the ones who already hold ideas that he confirms. Mainly quacks associated with Ayush.
