Skeptic Check: Betting on Pseudoscience (rebroadcast)

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 4:13 p.m.

b'Psychics may not be able to predict the future or sense your thoughts.\\xa0Nonetheless, they rake in hundreds of millions of dollars every year.\\xa0But the harm from pseudoscience can go far beyond your wallet \\u2013 especially when it promotes unscientific treatments for serious disease.\\xa0Find out what alarming discovery led one naturopath to quit her practice and why scientific ignorance is not bliss.\\xa0\\nIt\\u2019s our regular look at critical thinking, but don\\u2019t take our word for it.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nRobert Palmer\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Member of the Guerilla Skeptics on the Wikipedia editing team and columnist for the\\xa0Skeptical Inquirer\\xa0on-line magazine\\n\\n\\nLee McIntyre\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and lecturer on ethics at Harvard Extension School\\n\\n\\n Britt Marie Hermes\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Former naturopath doctor; now doctoral student in evolutionary genetics at the University of Kiel, Germany\\n\\nOriginally aired November 25, 2019\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'