Here’s another excellent TEDtalk, this time with Elizabeth Loftus discussing her work on suggestibility and misattribution and how important it is for us to understand that memory is malleable.
Debunking Therapeutic Touch
In another great clip from Penn and Teller we see how Emily Rosa’s simple experiment helped to debunk the practitioners of Therapeutic Touch. It can be surprising just how quickly these types of interventions become popular and in some cases … Read More
Penn and Teller demonstrate the Placebo Effect
This clip from Penn and Teller’s Showtime series Bullshit! offers a funny look at how people may come to believe in the effects of some rather bizarre interventions. Of course, while this is humorous, we should be careful not to … Read More