matt8819 wrote:

MattHunX wrote:There were these kind of demonstrations where people took homeopathic pills and gulped them down by the dozen, weren't there? I heard of at least one such demonstration. That didn't wake people up, apparently.

One of those moments is in this video, along with a right entertaining lecture of sorts
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Z7KeNCi7g[/youtube]

One of my fave jokes in a long time...

"We heard of a guy in Florida, the poor man, he died of an overdose of homeopathic medicine. He forgot to take his pill."

Fry and Laurie helping Randi debunk an astrologer

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r70HsEvNRck[/youtube]

Thanks for this! I am really looking forward to seeing this film.

Grace wrote:I wonder if James Randi would do an exposé on psychiatry. Now, there's a field of medicine that needs some critical analysis. Dose anyone have connections?

Many years ago, Scientific American published an article about psychiatry, The bit that sticks in my mind says that every school of psychiatry has one, and only one, success - and that is in proving that all the others are wrong.