Irrational Health Service (1/5) - Richard Dawkins

First part (of five) of the 2007 documentary The Irrational Health Service. Biologist and professor Richard Dawkins examines the growing suspicion the public has for science based medicine, despite its track record of successes like the germ theory of disease, vaccines, antibiotics and increased lifespan.

Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living? Or the bending of spoons using your mind alone? Is that rational? Richard Dawkins doesnt think so, and feels it is his duty to expose those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell.

He will take on the worlds leading proponents in their field of expertise, meet the victims who have used them and expose the history of the movements from the charlatans who have milked these practices to the experiments and testing that have failed to produce conclusive results.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Medicines
• Atlantis
• DNA
• Spirituality
• Meditation
• Reincarnation
• Health
• Drugs
• Healings
• Cancer
• Homeopathy
• Homeopathics
• Healer
• Remedies
• Medication
• Angels
• Science

[Learnerwp]

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

[Nomz05]

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!!!!

[anglodansk]

Really! Can't knock a good conman!

[baahhhFATALITY11]

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.......

[spoechhacker]

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

[nicpetnic]

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.

[CiliosX]

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

[groenjoost]

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

[markosantos79]

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

[fraglimat]

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

[HomicidalDonut]

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.