The Irrational Health Service (1/5)

Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living and give sound advice on how they should live their lives? What about sticking pins into your body to free the flow of Chi energy and cure your illness? Or the bending of spoons using your mind alone? Is that rational? Richard Dawkins doesn't 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 world's 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.

The Enemies of Reason Part 2: The Irrational Health Service
Richard Dawkins (2007)

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.

Part 1 of 5 - You are watching this part.
Part 2 of 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAEG4fk1xZ4
Part 3 of 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jByAgYGzzvk
Part 4 of 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIzawedYxk
Part 5 of 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CURuaWtjU3U

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[TheAtheistFuture]

Alter the structure of DNA? You might want to start with those cankles.

[eliviant]

@PangulongMarcos no he has not.

:-D

[PangulongMarcos]

@ikawpipa

Does God has location, age, sex, home address and all information to prove his/her/its existence?

[ikawpipa]

@PangulongMarcos - you should prove your existence first by giving details of your location, age, sex, home address and all information to prove your existence before you will be understood. otherwise you are just an imaginary uploader who even lies about your name.

[PangulongMarcos]

@ikawpipa

“Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themseleves from the bullets whizzing by? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.”

[PangulongMarcos]

@ikawpipa

Spirituality should be proven first before understood.

[ikawpipa]

@PangulongMarcos - not all will understand spirituality but when the time comes, there are no atheists on foxholes.

[PangulongMarcos]

@ikawpipa

Christianity is a byproduct of Judaism and a sister company of Islam. Jesus was tortured and crucified for the sins of non-existant individuals - Adams and Eves (from Old Testament). Jesus was a good man but died for nothing.

[PangulongMarcos]

@ikawpipa

Christianity is a byproduct of Judaism and a sister company of Islam. Jesus was tortured and crucified for the sins of non-existant individuals - Adams and Eves (from Old Testament). Jesus was a good man but died for nothing.

[ikawpipa]

@PangulongMarcos - nothing to do with Jesus Christ, hence Christianity.