Debunked! - What the Bleep Do We Know?

Episode 1 of Debunked! takes a look at "What the Bleep Do We Know" (2004), a film that mixes quantum mysticism with pure crap.

Many thanks to articles from Salon, Skeptic, and Washington Post, and Bob Park's "Voodoo Science".

Emoto:
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Journal of Scientific Exploration. 4 22: 481--493. 2008.

http://www.is-masaru-emoto-for-real.com/

Meditation Experiment:
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Crime Statistics in Washington, D.C.
http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,12...,|.asp

Click http://tinyurl.com/epkms (the above link gets cropped by YouTube)

Park, Robert, ''Voodoo Science"', Oxford University Press


Overall Attitude of Physicists Regarding Film:
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You can find hundreds of individual blogs, letters, and postings by physicists responding to the film. Too many to list here, but the article below provides an overall look.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/200...

• Category

  Education

[ComplyMusic]

I find this video was very biased. I don't like name calling when i watch something. It shows immaturity to new ideas. I don't believe in anything but i am open to ideas.

[1Viqing]

~ Philosophers and Scientists to consider a new perspective. As a result, like in all of history, there's two nut-wings that emerge: the nutters behind documentaries like this, and the nutters that utterly and completely dismiss any but the Aristotelian view (I'm not up to date on organization names, but in Norway we have one called Skepsis, and I don't remember the rest of the names I've heard before.. CSICOP, Randi's foundation, etc).

Basically the fundamentalist opposing parties.

[Indagatoroculi]

lol CampitelliBoxing quantum physics is true , perhaps you could provide a reference ?

[CampitelliBoxing]

and for example before quantum physics had been proved true, too many scientist said that quantum physics was an absurd

[CampitelliBoxing]

yes they mixed quantum physics with all that spirituality and thats wrong

BUT, the emoto experiments are not been refuted and your behavior is against the science my friend, the science is the search for the truth, and you (as many scientist do too) are trapped by dogmatism

there are many people who have tried the emoto rice experiment, search it in google, and that people uses the SCIENCE METHOD which is the empirical test to test an hypothesis

(sorry my bad english)

[1Viqing]

Also, if you're not aware of the alternative model for particles; waves. Look up "wave particle dualism" to see the modern (Quantum Physics) understanding on the issue. Wave Function collapse is also interesting to look into.

[1Viqing]

They have energy, but no mass. You can easily measure them, but destroy them in the process (since they're only energy).

They're not "nothing" or "empty space", it's just highly debatable what they are. Gravitons (responsible for gravity), for example, are pure hypotheticals. They haven't been found in particle-form, only in the form of force, and they're only assumed to be particles by particle-Physicists (and the-like).

[1Viqing]

Some of the more extreme views, yes. But the Quantum Physics most certainly has made Science re-consider its previous Aristotelian view of Physics & of reality. Many Quantum Physicists have more mystical interpretation of reality than others working in science, or normal people with a "Naive Realistic" interpretation of the world. Read for example Wikipedia/Quantum_Mechanics#Ph­ilosophical_implications

It has opened everyone's minds a bit (except the stubborn & close-minded), and forced ~

[unopeneddoor]

Bullshit. What is real is real.