Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking.

It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display. Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media.



Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.

Here Be Dragons is written and presented by Brian Dunning, host and producer of the Skeptoid podcast and author of the Skeptoid book series.


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Science Based Medicine vs Evidence Based Medicine

Our ancestors lived in a pre-scientific world where the evolution of “logically illogical” thinking helped them survive.

Science doesn’t come naturally; we prefer stories to studies. How can we decide if a medical treatment works?



The scientific method is the only way to get reliable answers. Evidence-based medicine was a good idea but failed to live up to its promise.

How science-based medicine is different from evidence-based medicine and why it is better.

Homoepathy officially doesn't work

Homeopathy effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses, study finds. Friday 19 February 2016 @ The Independent

Alternative Medicine Advocates Overdose On Psychotropic Drug

"A group of 29 homeopaths at a conference in Handeloh outside Hamburg, Germany had to be hospitalized after a mass overdose of the designer drug 2C-E. It isn’t clear how the group ended up ingesting the banned substance rather than a homeopathic remedy.



The psychotropic substance, which has been illegal in Germany since last year, is reputed to combine the euphoria of ecstasy, or MDMA, with the hallucinatory experiences of LSD. The effect is highly dose-dependent, however, and the 29 practitioners of alternative medicine participating in the conference, aged 24 to 56, were found “staggering around, rolling in a meadow, talking gibberish and suffering severe cramps” outside the conference hall, broadcaster NDR reported.

More than 150 emergency staff quickly arrived on the scene to administer sedatives and take blood tests. None of the victims reportedly suffered lasting physical damage"*

Read more here: http://www.rt.com/news/314778-homeopa...

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Should this drug be legal? Let us know in the comments.

Why You Should Stop Using Homeopathic Medicine

This sort of "medicine" exists for everything. Headaches, arthritis, ADHD. And it's all fake.

Homeopathy no more effective than placebos

Homeopathy no more effective than placebos, a study by the National Health and Medical Research Council finds

NHMRC releases statement and advice on homeopathy Date: 11 March 2015


What is homeopathy?

Based on the theory of treating 'like with like', and is supposed to work by giving you very small amounts of substances that in larger doses would cause the very symptoms you want cured.

Taking small doses of these substances – which are derived from plants, animals or minerals – will strengthen the body's own ability to heal and increase its resistance to illness or infection.

Substances contained in homeopathic products are so small they are usually undetectable, but it is argued they still have a biological effect.

Homeopathy is used to treat a wide variety of complaints – coughs, colds, depression, headaches, asthma, arthritis – most common day-to-day ailments.

Should the NHS fund homeopathy?

Nicky Campbell presents the moral, ethical and religious discussion series comes live from Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow. With Dr Evan Harris, Ian M Scott from Glasgow Skeptics, Alexander M Gillies, Linda Woodhead, Dorothy Grace Elder and Dr Russell Malcolm.



BBC One 1 February 2015

Should we have more faith in science?

The Big Questions: Should we have more faith in science?

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Video from BBC One 6 April 2014

Natural "Cures" They Dont Want You to Know Are BS

Intro by Lomaxient

Professor David Colquhoun pwns homeopathy

Homeopathy report. Recommends NHS shold cease funding



BBC interview

David Mitchell and Dara O'Briain on Homeopathy & Psychics

Bonus track from "Dara O'Briain Talks Funny - Live in London". David Mitchell and Dara O'Briain comment on Dara's Homeopathy bit, discussing why "earned knowledge is better than fairy tales".

Testing Homeopathy: Plausbility

Is homeopathy plausible, or bunkum? Starting with its origins, this video looks at how its fundamental claims stand up to a sprinkling of reason.



Samuel Hahnemann (1745-1843)

Squabbles About Homeopathy

Dr. Ben Goldacre of BadScience.com chronicles his experiences arguing against the pseudoscience of homeopathy both in and out of the media.

Heidi Stevenson - Fake Measles Epidemic and Censorship

Heidi Stevenson has recently wrote a blog post were she claims that the Welsh Measles Epidemic is faked. In this video Nega talks about the data she presents and her ruthless censorship.



Welsh Measles Epidemic Was Faked…………Apparently

Homeopathy: Money for Nothing

In the first installment of "The Honest Liar", Jamy Ian Swiss punctures the pretense of homeopathy. How much is too much to pay for a remedy with nothing in it?



The Honest Liar

Squabbles About Homeopathy

Dr. Ben Goldacre of BadScience.com chronicles his experiences arguing against the pseudoscience of homeopathy both in and out of the media.



Ben Goldacre - "Squabbles About Homeopathy" - TAM 6

Homeopathy The Test

Does Homeopathy really work? Some studies have shown promising results of homeopathy. Watch this exciting video



BBC Horizon

200 years of homeopathy

Dr Simon Singh, Richard Saunders, James Randi and Dr Ian Musgrave appear on Today Tonight to express the view of science on Homeopathy.




Video from Today Tonight, Australia

Homeopathy: What is homeopathy?

The dilution principle in homeopathy is against the Law of Mass Action which is a fundamental law of nature. At homeopathic dilutions there is no more molecule left to cure. People claiming to be cured were just experiencing placebo effect. What nature does not allow cannot happen...



Homeopathy is not a science

Video from: BBC HORIZON Documentary.

Homeopathy cured Gemma Hoefkens from cancer

Gemma Hoefkens claims that homeopathy cured her cancer and now she makes her living via homeopathy.

Stephen Nolan Show, BBC Radio Five Live

Broadcast Date: 21-02-2010


Interview from BBC News 24.



Myles Vs Hoefkens - Homeopathy

Can Homeopathy cure Chlamydia, Migraines, Infertility School phobia, etc? In short NO, in long NOOOOOOOO! Meet Gemma Hoefkens who became a registered homoeopath after she was diagnosed with cancer, tumours in her brain and down her spine. She clames that Homeopthy and Homeopthy alone cured her and not the Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy or the medication she was put on.



1023 - Homeopathy: there's nothing in it