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Chapter 19: Application III: Science versus Pseudoscience

After Chapter 19: Section 2:
19.1 Videos the Nature of Pseudoscience

  • Prof. Beals on science/pseudo-science
    9:19
  • Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience
    8:56
  • James Randi on A Lifetime Fighting Pseudoscience
    6:40
  • James Randi on how a professional magician investigates claims of the paranormal
    56:45
  • Michael Shermer on why people believe weird things
    14:12
  • Shermer on the believing brain
    1:08:46
  • Michael Shermer on The Threat of Pseudoscience
    32:19
  • Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things (with Dr. Michael Shermer)
    41:16
After Chapter 19: Section 3:
19.2 Videos Astrology as Pseudoscience

  • Laci Greene on Astrology
    3:20
  • Richard Dawkins on Astrology
After Chapter 19: Section 4:
19.3 Videos Lysenkoism

  • The Vavilov-Lysenko Contention
    53:32
  • Lysenkoism
    10:38
  • Trofim Lysenko
    9:58
After Chapter 19: Section 5:
19.4 Videos Cold Fusion

  • Bill Nye, Is Cold Fusion Possible?
    3:58
  • James Randi - Cold Fusion and Carl Sagan
    9:05
  • The Cold Fusion Question
    5:29
  • 1996 - ABC Nightline Cold Fusion
    6:33
19.5 Tutorial Chapter 19 Concept Review 20 points