Enemies of Reason Ep.2 (1 of 5)

Part Two - The Irrational Health Service

Prof Richard Dawkins looks at how health has become a battleground between reason and superstition. A third of us now spend a total of over 1.6 billion a year on superstitious alternative remedies, but 80% of them have never been subjected to properly conducted trials.

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[leopheard]

I love the bit at 3:02 where he opens his eyes and you can tell he's thinking "What the fuck...?". I love the God known as Richard Dawkins!

[keepthefunk]

6:34 She had to laugh herself! LOL!

[Nalenthios]

I should've been filmed from 4:00 to 5:00. I couldn't help it. My mouth was open as widely as it possibly could while my head was slowly, but helplessly dropping to my keyboard. HOW can anyone really BELIEVE such things?!

[otneill]

WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE SMOKING LoL

[ElSmusso]

quacks got to earn a living too? we don't want them on social security, hehe

[ffafii]

@TomVodkaCollins

i meant healing with food as a better alternative for medicaments.

[jazzx251]

@FarhanC99

Look - deluded as she is - she could have charged a lot more. Because desperate people will pay even £150 an hour if they think it has any chance of curing their terminal disease.

I think she's a nice lady, with a soothing voice (try closing your eyes during her opening monologue, you can imagine the cancer would disappear for a while).

It's tricky. She DOES make her patients feel better - even though they'll still die of cancer. But it is garbage she's spouting.

[jazzx251]

@kendalwin1

What ARE you talking about?

Everyone knows we need certain vitamins for a healthy life - Dawkins might scoff at using pills to do the job when we've got fruit and veg.

Meditation is simply a way of calming the brain down into a very relaxed state - no need for bullshit. RD would agree.

Massage? I bet Dawkins has had a massage or two.

Diet?????????? Are you saying Dawkins doesn't think what you eat is important?

Creative Visualisation? Read some Dawkins!

[TomVodkaCollins]

How is this woman not hyena-laughing at shit coming out of her own mouth?

[TomVodkaCollins]

@ffafii Even if we accept this baseless assertion as true, which I don't, it doesn't follow that they are good.

[FarhanC99]

@jazzx251 would you spend a single penny on faith healing? let alone 250 a day

saying its cheap is like saying a punch in the stomach doesnt hurt that much when u compare it to a kick in the balls

[jazzx251]

@FarhanC99

I charge £32 per hour to learn the trumpet (which is below the going rate in my area) - a whole day would cost £250, so she's quite cheap really; about £20 an hour.