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  • Really! Can't knock a good conman!

    

  • I once believed and bought into the new age healing stuff, like chakras, energy crystals, healing objects, cleansing your chakra, healing energy within the body, and even positivity having the ability to heal anything. Now, i'm much more likely to question such ideas. But strangely enough, I never bought into psychics.......

  • Dawkins is such a gentleman, there's no way I could not have burst out laughing lol

  • I have muscular dystrophy and it is amazing how many people believe in the alternative medicine BS, and try to push it on me. There is no way to cure what I have without gene therapy, they just don't understand. I feel really bad for desperate and gullible people that fall for alternative medicine and loose there money, instead of just living there life.

  • I guess that this would work for psychotherapy and grouptherapy as it seems quit relaxing.

  • A Darwinian like Dawkins should let these people be, this is natural selection at work!

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  • Prof. Dawkins' eyes expression at 4:40 ! "say WHAT!?" hahaha, priceless!

  • Holy crap, at around 3 mins in, I dropped my jaw at the nonsense coming out of her. O.o

  • There is a lot of value in meditation as far as relieving stress goes...and that by extension does have some health benefits. But if you honestly tell sick people that meditation can cure their cancer on its own, you're basically trying to kill them.

  • BAHAHAHAHAHAH

  • Come on, these are harmless eccentrics. Dawkins should focus on the really dangerous folk: religious fanatics and the like.

  • @Haarez1 But, what if a cancer patient goes to these guys and dies? Its not so harmless bud.

  • I was laughing my ass off by 3:40

  • At least one can see why people don't trust big pharma...

  • 4:30 what the fuck...

  • That woman's face is frightening.

  • the world is my oyster.. so stay off my pearl

  • I don't know how he does it! I couldn't listen to these people with a straight face

  • Richard Dawkins is the smartest, most articulate and ethical person of our time.

  • @MichaelJGrant I think Richard Dawkins would humbly disagree with you...which kind of makes your point doesn't it? GO DAWKINS!

  • Lol when dawkins opens his eyes and notices that everyone else's eyes are still closed.

  • "swallow the smiles saliva into the heart" i think that is a pretty accurate representation of the depth of knowledge in alternative medicine.

  • This is Darwinism. Those who are rational embrace real medicine, and live longer. Those who are irrational embrace alternative medicine, and die off. Those who remain are not stupid enough to think that chanting is better than drugs.

  • @BrandonSchleifer

    do you even know how evolution works?

  • @sirsnarf Yes I do. Mutation and natural selection. The availability of medicine is an environmental factor. Those use them are likely to have a higher Darwinian fitness (measured in number of offspring), while those who don't are less likely to have a good Darwinian fitness. Those who use medicine pass on their genes, and thus, natural selection. If there's a mutation that makes you irrationally afraid of medicine, you're less fit, and your gene line is more likely to die off.

  • @BrandonSchleifer Not necessarily. If you're irrationally afraid of medicine, you might also irrationally believe it's a great idea to have a bunch of kids and homeschool them. Irrationality could be 'good' with respect to Darwinian goals. And therein lies a real problem for those of us who pay taxes to support this stuff.

  • @clfst17 Having a bunch of kids is not, in itself, an irrational idea. Homeschooling those kids is only an irrational idea if you don't know anything. That being said, homeschooling does not allow kids to build social relationships with their peers, lowering their Darwinian fitness. Therefore, the scenario you describe would not result in extinction of the genetic line, but would not be selected for in pressure situations, like water born illnesses.

  • @BrandonSchleifer It is likely an irrational idea to have a bunch of kids (irrational with respect to their well-being) especially if you aren't fit to support their needs (financially or intellectually) and while you raise a good point about certain pressure situations, I'm skeptical that irrational people don't generally have greater Darwinian fitness than rational people.

  • @clfst177 Here is proof that rationality is an advantage to human Darwinian fitness: as a species, we have become much more rational over time. If the irrational had a greater Darwinian fitness than the rational, we'd see modern society to be less rational than ancient society. However, we observe that modern humans are more rational than our primitive ancestors. Therefore, rational thought is either beneficial to reproduction, or coincident with beneficial traits. And that's just observation.

  • I'm impressed that he could keep from bursting out laughing. I would've lost it.

  • FINALLY, THIS IS IT! THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND TO EXPLAIN THE PROBLEM I"M SEEING IN THAILAND RIGHT NOW!!!

  • i think i died when he said 'she's agreed to top me up...cant believe anyone would believe such,,,but being an African iv seen people believe in wayyy worse.i just thought the loony beliefs had died in the western world.i stand corrected!!!!

  • @Nomz05 Unfortunately you do. I'm keeping hopes up though.

  • I wish we could take all the funding used for this bullshit and divert it to the research for the cure for herpes. I personally dont have it, but i know the discomfort it brings millions and researchers are so close to finding a cure, but they have funding problems! imagine how much happiness we could bring by just being able to cure for something like herpes. Instead, people peddling crap about deep knowing and vibrations get money.

  • it boggles my mind that there are people gullible enough to fall for that...atlantian helix what? so....she breathed it into him? 'topped him up' so to speak. XD

  • We used to have 12 DNA strings in Atlantis, but we forgot who we were in the experiment after Atlantis... WHAT. WHY. WHY. WHAT. NO. NHDFIFGUSBAKGFDJKUFGAUKA

  • 4:38

    "We used to have in Atlantis..."

    obv troll

  • "Swallow the saliva down into the heart..."

    Sorry, doesn't work that way. Argument invalidated already.

  • Does this idiot realize she is talking to an evolutionary biologist about DNA? What is this nonsense?

  • I wish those BS people went without medicine

  • I love his face at 3:15 or so. Hahahaha Richard Dawkins, I am a full grown male who loves you.

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  • lol, love the part at 3:14, where he's just kinda like o.o

  • @claireshana ?I'm not exactly sure what your trying to say...People that believe in god take it on faith they just feel or believe that there's omnipotent deity without any evidence

  • this is fucking scary, i had no idea so many people take that shit seriously

  • DOES RELIGON HAVE TO FUCK UP EVERYTHING

  • @CannonLongshot u can't prove a negative I thought u knew about u obviously don't...if believe on a god fine but saying that there's no evidence against god is so stupid. Ur trying to prove the existence of a god that means u need to cite evidence not the other way around

  • is she high?

  • @dom01ful Almost certainly. I want some of whatever she has...

  • 1:30 is blatantly a false, blanket statement. As soon as you bring any sort of outside incentive to something like this, you create bias. The bias here, is MONEY. Medicine, as in, drugs that are produced in a lab, are patentable, natural substances are not. There are many remedies that are considered 'alternative' that have shown to work positively (not through double-blind trials, but through documented studies) that are under the radar because you cannot make money with it.

  • 4:55

    That would be the point my face contorted into such a writhing reflection of my disbelief and astonishment that it hurted. How on earth does Dawkins resist the urge to slap some sense into that conversation is beyond me!

  • Sometime I wonder how Richard stops himself from bursting into laughter when talking to these people.

  • "We used to have, in Atlantis, twe...

    Paused the video and slammed my head against the wall

    *Unpaused*

    ...lve, traingles facing inward...."

    Cut self

    ....and we forgot who we were after an experiment after atlantis..."

    Killed self

  • @KidInTheSweater  hahahahahahah

  • "We used to have, in Atlantis, twe...

    Paused the video and slammed my head against the wall

  • Richard should be happy her methods of triangle infusing doesn't happen analy. As would often be the case.

  • I'm not fond of Richard Dawkins, and I'm totally with him on this o.O

  • @CannonLongshot Not fond of him? That might because you do not have the full Atlantium quota. Ask Elisis to put the last triangles in!

  • @DannyOc3an Ahh, I see! I'm sure they'll help me agree with the sceptic! :P

  • @DannyOc3an Nah, I'm just not a fan of how he talks down to religion as if it's on a par with believing something that's been PROVEN wrong, you know? I respect his opinion and appreciate that he's a great scientist and speaker against stuff like homeopathy :L

  • @CannonLongshot

    Believing something that not only has no evidence for it, but also evidence against it (in increasing amounts in the case of religion) I think should be equated to a mentall illness.

  • @Surtak I'd be interested in this evidence, do you have some kind of reference for it?

  • @CannonLongshot

    You're seriously asking me about the evidence in the comment of a Richard Dawkins video? Who has written many books on the subject and is constantly and repeatedly explaining the evidence to you in these videos?

    Stop saying "show me the evidence" and LOOK! If you're so certain of yourself, go and read some books on evolution, look at the fossils, listen to the science.

    If you won't even try, you're just deluding yourself. Learn the theory, then disprove it.

  • @CannonLongshot

    And before you turn that one back on me, I have read the bible and listened to many different arguments on why it ought to be true. After learning about evolution and properly understanding it (the important part), I realised it's a fairytale and decided the evidence sided, overwhelmingly, on the side of evolution.

    Without creation, and I mean the proper literal creation, nothing else stand up.

  • @Surtak I'm not entirely sure what you mean. I've got an A-level in biology, and am studying physics at university. I KNOW scientific evidence when I see it and no one has ever shown me an adequate "proof" that God doesn't exist. What, you think I'm the sort of Christian who refuses to believe in evolution? I would appreciate not being set up as a straw man, here. Unfortunately, I for a second believed you had proof, rather than "God and evolution are incompatible because I say so".

  • @Surtak Besides, the truth in the Bible is not the important part. It's the stories and the lessons that make me "believe" in it, though I agree, I imagine, with you that it is certainly a product of it's times and not to be followed to the letter blindly. I also apologise if any of this is coming over as aggressive, but I would like to make my stance on this matter clear before any misunderstandings occur :P

  • 4:40 POKERFACE

  • Lmfao, gotta love how you can get a reading from Dawkins' bullshit detector just by observing the blink rate xD (4:40-5:05 and on)

  • @feanando We've been over this, Craig has nothing to debate. Hitch's fanboys don't run around calling Chomsky a coward for refusing to debate him. The worst I ever hear on the matter is comebacks when Chomsky's fanboys try to troll his videos.

  • @feanando Congratulations, you made an ass of yourself twice.

    "Even an atheist publicly accused him of cowardice!"

    That literally means nothing.

    "Chomsky, the communist?"

    Because, as we all know, a linguist's political leanings automatically invalidate all his life achievements.

    Here's a tip: Try reading your comments aloud before hitting post.

  • @cnmaster01 Sure. Thanks for your kind comments. Are you communist too? Best regards.

  • @feanando Oh no, I'd grown out of that before my 16th birthday, and if not for their religious affiliation and terrible taste in candidates, I might call myself a rightwinger. My point was, Chomsky being communist did nothing to invalidate his numerous achievements. I will apologize if you took my bluntness as aggression, but I stand by what I said..

  • @cnmaster01 You know... I just have some difficult to believe in people who claim to be saints but live comfortably in luxury. Personally, to me capitalism is equally as disgusting as communism. The problem is not in the system itself, but in people's hearts and wills. Any system would work fine if people were good. Dawkins does exactly the worst thing: induces people to unlimited selfishness. Atheists think they are f. superior people, but they really aren't.

  • @feanando When I said religious affiliation, I meant their recent cries for a theocracy, which seems to be the GOPs primary objective this election season. And we agree on something here. My father once told me "the only problem with communists and libertarians, is they assume the best of everyone at all times." I haven't myself seen anything to make me disagree. Now as to our disagreement, What does Dawkins do that "induces people to unlimited selfishness?" I for one (cont...)

  • @feanando (cont...) have never met an atheist who proclaimed themselves "superior people," and quite frankly the idea behind the various recent campaigns of activist atheism, as far as I can tell, is to dispel the myth that atheists are terrible people.

  • @cnmaster01 Oh, c'mon, man... you must be kidding me... The man who once said that the "WHY" question is a silly question (namely, R. Dawkins) is preaching worldwide that every believer is a manipulated dumb who should drop their faith and yet you tell me you never heard of any atheist proclaiming that they are superior? He himself does not know a shit of Philosophy, and yet boasts around that he knows science FROM HIS VERY LIMITED POINT OF VIEW OF BIOLOGY... Quite absurd.

  • @cnmaster01 Besides, the image of atheists as "so nice good people" is a lie, the same way that the image of "so nice Christian people in general" is a lie. Only humble people who deny themselves and really struggle to serve the loving God are nice people, and yet they sin and do disgusting things. The problem with atheists is that the origin of their acts will always be selfish, even if the very acts are people oriented.

  • @feanando So serving "the loving God," with the implication of an eternal reward, is n't selfish? Would a starving child really care if his meal came from a missionary try to serve god, or Bill Gates for some undisclosed "Selfish" reason. And saying "only humble people who... serve the loving God are nice people" goes well beyond Dawkins most arrogant presumptions, claiming to know not only all the complicated personal motivations of every individual on the planet, but that only this one works.

  • @cnmaster01

    Who told you people of faith act to get rewards? It may be the case in your mind. Some of us act to express gratitude.

    Concerning Gates, well... if I am not mistaken, he just happens to fund abortion in Africa... and he is a WASP.

    And yes, it makes all difference if you do something for pride or for love.

    Serving people for God without expecting anything in return is arrogance? I don't agree. Try asking Dawkins to serve some Christians...

  • The problem is that medicine has advanced so much many of us take being healthy for granted and become impatient at its limitations when we get sick.

  • i expected this lunatic woman to talk about aliens since thats what the youtubers usually do when they mention it.

  • 3:35, I voided my bowels

  • @SpencerBenedict2nd What beautiful gibberish.

  • @cnmaster01

    cnmaster01 SAYS, "What beautiful gibberish."

    >FYI. You have been introduced to a critical universal truth, per Revelation 17, coming to a new world despotic society near you; ruled by the antichrist papal Caesar dynasty. Prepare yourself and children to get use to it. We, the Collective, stand at the brink and Dawn of unHoly Vatican Rome's 2nd (and last) Dark Age of tyranny and the temporal and spiritual enslavement of mankind under the sceptre of papacy anti-Christ.

    That is all.

  • @SpencerBenedict2nd My spirit seems immune to enslavement, despite all the best efforts of loonies like you. I'm not a follower of your cult, so that leaves me with the title of anti-christ. If that's the case, believe me you won't be the ones spared.

  • @cnmaster01

    cnmaster01 SAYS, "If that's the case, believe me you won't be the ones spared."

    >This is the case, and yes you are correct, "we" won't be the one's spared. Just as unHoly Vatican Rome burned true bible believing Christians at the stake in their "Holy" Inquisitions during their first Dark Age, their coming Dark Age will be much worse than the first.

    "Spared" on this earth matters not, as this mortal and temporal world is fleeting. The world of your soul is eternal. Are you Saved?

  • @SpencerBenedict2nd "What's it like wallowing in the muck and mire of your ignorance? Getting along swimmingly, I suspect?" I could ask you the same. Maybe I'm not, but I'm sure eternity in heaven or hell will get just as excruciatingly dull either way.

  • @cnmaster01 Backstroking now, are we? Careful not to bump your head. Seems enough damage has been done.

  • @cnmaster01

    cnmaster01 SAYS, "I'm not a follower..." . . . "My spirit seems immune..." . . . "... me with the title of anti-christ." . . . "... efforts of loonies..." . . . "... immune to enslavement,..."

    >What's it like wallowing in the muck and mire of your ignorance? Getting along swimmingly, I suspect?

  • Does anyone else love the way he says "way out"

  • "It's mostly angels" lol

  • Man I'm hungry.

  • ! The Heart Sutra, I love that chant; makes me think of stars twirling their slow dance through the void of space across the gulfs of time and light.

    The Universe, Personified by Buddhist Chants, Fuck Yeah!

  • Livingstone, the 'faith healer', has a grotesquely swollen right leg. Since the swelling isn't bilaterla, it's likely Lymphedema. Why hasn't she healed herself?

    Sigh. I suppose she would say that it was worse before she started 'healing' herself. Or that it was due to her extra DNA or something. What a fruit loop!

  • Damn, Dawkins has DNA strands more complicated than most people on the planet, it's weird that it still looks like a double helix.

  • I love how you can tell shes making everything up on the spot (The faith healer girl)

  • "The deep knowing of the wise being that you are..." How does such obvious bullshit flattery not leap right out at people? How do you go there and actually think you're that wise? You must be the biggest idiot in the world not to realize what's going on.

  • Once, when I was lightly dozing on my bed next to my cat, I heard my cat, in a deep Barry White style voice, say "Hey baby, move over".

    How d'you atheists explain that?

  • @Frequency404 I cant explain it, but I would recommend you sleeping with your butt to the wall hence forth.

  • @FacelessDeviant

    Keep your wall fetish to yourself, mister!

  • @Frequency404 hahaha.

    Btw, did you move over?

  • @FacelessDeviant

    And give my cat the benefit of the doubt?

    I think not.

  • I like the way she is making up all sorts of shite.

  • What rubbish. The war against REASON? There is no war. Homeopathy is what it is. Whether it works or not, I do not know but this is more sensationalist nonsense.

  • Fuck me (pardon my French). Watching a couple of chimpanzees scratch each other's back with dildo's seems more plausible as a hypothesis on the origin of the universe then the claims here. Never thought it was this bad.

  • "Scientific Medicine" is one thing & most people are all for that. Where people's faith & trust in mainstream medicine begins to falter is a direct result of the experience of its mainstream "Delivery System." When individual med.treatment & insurance costs sky-rocket, the once 'ordinary' delivery system devolves into 1-sz.-fits-all socialized medicine. Patient-confidence loses ground & a readily-available alternative treatment industry quickly garners new & greater interest.

  • I like Dawkins going after theist but this program is disingenuous by picking ridiculous subjects (easy targets as he himself says it). Even alternative medicine ppl laugh at them. You can find same kind of charlatan's in the scientific community too.

  • @HeySenthil Eh, where there is a (criminal) market based on idiocy, there must be objection and a warning for superstition, what better way than a short documentary that can be aired on television.

  • @avdmeers First superstition and idiocy are not criminal. Real problem is alternate medicine or therapy are not regulated. (Yoga is regulated now) We have to find a way to regulate the legitimate alternate medicines, that will get rid of charlatan's like the ones covered in the Dawkins doc. There is different between "Irrational Health Services" & Alternative medicine. I'm disappointed Dawkins equated them in the doc. He shud stick to attacking theist and not over reach into other areas.

  • @HeySenthil And the floodgate to criminal superstition is quickly opened, so indeed it should be regulated. Furthermore alternative therapy is nice and all, and you're free to exercise it, but don't go around spouting wild claims that there is a hidden magical force behind it. The people offering the services should at least have the basic understanding of the scientific explanation behind the practices (e.g. placebo effect, muscle relaxation, social attention, ...). He did not equate them.

  • i am laughing my ass off...

  • QUACKS

  • hahaha its great to see his face GOLD! and im tired of those religious channels blocking my comments

  • I can't believe I've been lucky enough to see Dawkins in person

  • Dawkins should have had the troll face on.

  • At least these guys don't challenge evolution. That's a progress of sorts

  • 4:40

    Most priceless face

  • We should make a law that if homeopathic medicine does not work you have to compensate them BIG TIME I think 1,000 average days work for minor flaws, 10,000 for major ones, 100,000 for deaths, 1,000,000 for cripplings...

  • The miracle is that he can keep a straight face :P

  • @Botjer1 I gasped and laughed when the "faith healer" topped him up with the "last triangle" of the DNA strand...............

  • @yellowlynx SO funny :D thank god for the comedy called religion ^^

  • 3:14 Dawkins looks around and thinks: "are you people really listening to this sh*t seriously?"

    Now, seriously, I'm a pharmacist student, and hearing stupidities about pharmaceuticals hiding the real cures (such as vitamin B15, B17 and DCA) in order to gain money just gets me on my nerves. If I were Dawkins sitting there, listening to this, I wouldn't be able to take it. His ability to not respond harshly or violently is unbelievable

  • 8:39 face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm! face palm!

  • This is physically painful to watch, for me.

    ._.

  • 4:37 LOL

  • Some people always feel they have to be smarter and more special than they really are. Unfortunately, many choose fairy tales over self-improvement.

    Then there's the group of people who doubt everything without making the effort to study the matter. Sure, if you want to live in a world of uncertainty and superstition, go right ahead. The rest of us make judgments based on what we know, sometimes we're wrong but we learn from our mistakes.

  • how about looking at some genuine practitioners of less extreme forms of 'alternative' therapies .... there's no getting away from the fact that 'traditional' medicine is the 3rd biggest killer in the world! Each to their own I say - if you don't believe in these things - fine but everybody is entitled to a choice!

  • @TonksyJane Children don't get to choose though. They are screwed when their parents decide a faith healer can do the job just as well as vaccines.

  • how about looking at some genuine practitioners of less extreme forms of 'alternative' therapies .... there's no getting away from the fact that 'traditional' medicine is the 3rd biggest killer in the world! Each to their own I say - if you don't believe in these things - fine but everybody is entitled to a choice!

  • how about looking at some genuine practitioners of less extreme forms of 'alternative' therapies .... there's no getting away from the fact that 'traditional' medicine is the 3rd biggest killer in the world! Each to their own I say - if you don't believe in these things - fine but everybody is entitled to a choice!

  • I've met so many people like this before, I always feel bad cause come on, you've gotta laugh

  • 12 strands... in 4 triangles. I hope I never find out where this woman lives, because I HAVE A SUDDEN AND VIOLENT URGE TO DESTROY HER UTTERLY. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

  • I admire how he goes inside what he's criticizing to show the falsity from a first hand experience, while others criticize just by mere observation

  • Dawkins is wrong; God does exist and his name is Richard Dawkins.

  • @mario241190 and his Son is Christopher Hitchens.

  • @mario241190 Does he believe in himself? Is he a Dawtheist?

  • @MegaJimenez1234

    Because I think he's focusing all energy that could possibly go to smirking on keeping his palm at such a great distance from his face. He is a greater man than I, I'm not even in the presence of these people and palm met face with such force that I might not survive the night.

  • Wow that's one crazy lady, to say she has the ability to alter DNA, that's a pretty bold claim. I'm having a hard time deciding what is more redicilous, alternative medicine or religion. -_-

    Atlantis...wat?

  • Dawkins making the O_O face and blinking a lot is fucking priceless.

  • Four triangles facing in..... you mean a square.

  • please tell me she didn't say Atlantis D:

  • He's always blinking when someone is saying BS to him :)

  • I don't even like Richard Dawkins and the interview with a faith healer is still hilarious!

  • resistance is futile..you WILL be assimilated...what a quack..

  • 3:15 - Weapons grade pokerface... engaged

  • His face at 4:39

  • "Step inside the pearl" is my new way of saying 'bullshit'

  • 2:57

    ZOMG! Timothy Spall has a sister!

  • Would acupressure and acupuncture count as 'spiritual medicine'?

  • "the deep knowing"

    arggghghhhhh christ on a bike ahahahahahhahaha

  • Thet rally freks me oot.

  • I do not know which is more impressive (or pathetic)--our ability to invent BS or our apparent desire to believe it.

  • My aunt has cancer. She refused chemo and radiation due to the deaths she saw while a nurse as a result of these treatments and the motive of drug companies to sell unnecessary drugs for profit. She has switched to a very healthy diet and is now able to run, however she is loosing too much weight and consulting faith healers THAT I KNOW ARE FAKING IT. What can I do? If I tell her that what they say about radiation makes no sense in terms of physics could she lose the placebo effect and die? help

  • @gentzelpwns Alternative medicine that DOES work: Eastern Healing Arts (google it). Not all alternative medicine is woo-woo. I should know, it's really helped me, and it's not a placebo. The strength of alternative medicine depends greatly on the practitioner.