5X5 Episode 31
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| 5X5 Episode 31 | |
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| Digital Homeopathy | |
| 4th August 2008 | |
| 5X5 30 | 5X5 32 |
| Skeptical Rogues | |
| S: Steven Novella | |
| R: Rebecca Watson | |
| B: Bob Novella | |
| J: Jay Novella | |
| E: Evan Bernstein | |
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Digital Homeopathy 20 years after Benveniste
Voice-over: You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide 5x5, five minutes with five skeptics, with Steve, Jay, Rebecca, Bob and Evan.
S: This is the SGU 5X5 and tonight we are talking about homeopathy. This is 20th anniversary of the seminal scientific paper in 1988 written by Jacques Benveniste and published in the journal Nature, which has parked a tremendous amount of controversy within scientific circles. The study did not convince the scientific community that homeopathy, which is the dilution of remedies behind the point of there being any original substance left behind, did not convince them that homeopathy worked or was plausible. What it did do was reveal a greta deal of poor science and even fraud in Jacques Benveniste's lab.
R: Yeah, and the sad thing is that even though there was a whole team of scientists and James Randi who went out there and figured out what was going on in the lab, which was that lab assistants were effecting the (clarifies) changing the samples. Even though it was thoroughly investigated at the time and proven to be a faulty experiment, it's still inspired so much crap! People still buy into homeopathy.
J: I was surprised that
S: SGU 5x5 is a companion podcast to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, a weekly science podcast brought to you by the New England Skeptical Society in association with skepchick.org. For more information on this and other episodes, visit our website at www.theskepticsguide.org. Music is provided by Jake Wilson.
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