How I learned to love pseudoscience

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Check out Brian Keating's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw and have a look at his new book, Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://urlgeni.us/amzn/TLANPW As a scientist, I spend a lot of time fighting pseudoscience. But I have come to think that pseudoscience is actually good for science, because it helps us to improve our methods. In this video I explain how pseudoscience led to the development of single-blind trials, double-blind trials, and random controls. The text I read at 3 mins 37 seconds is from Claude-Anne Lopez article: Franklin and Mesmer: an encounter. Yale J Biol Med. 1993 Jul-Aug; 66(4): 325–331. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588895/ Info about Michael Gordin's book which I mention at the end is here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/on-the-fringe-9780197555767?cc=de&lang=en& Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/ You can support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sabine 0:00 Intro 0:24 Pseudoscience as a Byproduct of Science 2:12 From Mesmerism to Single Blind Trials 5:13 From Homeopathy to Double Blind Trials 8:04 Skeptical Societies 9:23 From Telepathy to Random Controls 10:30 The Fight Isn't Over 12:00 Sponsor Message #science #pseudoscience

Published 2021-10-09 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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