The Ten Most Wanted : Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience 2-2

The Ten Most Wanted : Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience
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Skeptoid is a weekly podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture.

Each weekly episode focuses on a single phenomenon — an urban legend, a paranormal claim, alternative therapy, or something just plain stupid — that you've heard of, and that you probably believe in. Skeptoid attempts to expose the folly of belief in non-evidence based phenomena, and more importantly, explains the factual scientific reality.

From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred, politically incorrect though that may be.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• skeptoid
• skeptic
• ten
• most
• wanted
• celebrities
• who
• promote
• harmful
• pseudoscience
• Oprah
• Winfrey
• Jenny
• McCarthy
• Bill
• Maher
• Prince
• Charles
• Ben
• Stein
• Pamela
• Anderson
• Larry
• King
• Chuck
• Norris
• Montel
• Williams
• Joe
• Rogan

[SerenityNoww]

You really think that Prince Charles is "perhaps the most influential man in the UK"?

Not even close i'm afraid. In fact I would say that most people over here consider him a bit of a joke.

[drstrangelove09]

What about "Dr" Oz?

[aronpeterson121]

The main thing most of them have in common is they live in a bubble and sometimes that bubble is called California

[Itsokdontpanic]

Why are these people still allowed to go on? It boggles the mind how such stupidity is allowed to hold such high positions in society.

[Emaniac69]

Celebrity status contributes to their grandiose delusions.

Has anyone bothered to check the papers they have published? Oh yeah, that's right!! They haven't published a damn thing!!

[nickmarkham69]

HAHA! PRINCE CHARLES! HAHAHA! 

[PA1RofRaggedClause]

As mixed as my feelings for Brian Dunning are, I have to say I agree with this list, though I might have rearranged its order (putting Stein closer to the top, probably right behind/before Maher)

[mikebaxtersc5]

@chainedtotheworld Your right it would make his point stronger. Maybe he was assuming that people know these things about them. I certainly didn't know all these things but maybe I don't pay as much attention to celebrities as the average person. It seems like these people are probably pretty outspoken about this stuff sense they probably wouldn't be on the list if they weren't so he may be assuming the information is readily available so it would have just been useless work to do it himself.

[chainedtotheworld]

@mikebaxtersc5 Yes I take your point, it would make sense for me to look them up myself. I just meant the maker of the vid could make his points more strongly and clearly if he showed clips/quotes of people saying the things he's criticising. Just because people sometimes quote mine doesn't mean that all quoting is useless. Even just a few links would be handy, as he is coming from and promoting a skeptical attitude, but doesn't really present any evidence for us to believe what he is saying

[mikebaxtersc5]

@chainedtotheworld You could always do your own research and go look it up yourself...not trying to be a jerk or anything i just mean even if he did he did he could still quote mine, it would be better just to check these things on your own

[chainedtotheworld]

It would be good to have some clips of these celebrities speaking and promoting pseudoscience as references, rather than just this guy telling us what they say