So, I have largely eschewed watching the History channel since they went so deeply off the rails into nonsense.
However... This morning there was NOTHING on at 10 am and I saw this segment, The Brain, which purported to be reasonably straightforward.
And much of it was...
They talked about memory, and the evolution of various areas of the brain, and people with savant-like memory abilities and also people with no memories at all...
All pretty solid stuff.
Until.... They talked about psychic abilities. They talked with a "researcher" (just one) who was conducting self-designed experiments that included guess who... John Edward.
Now... they did have a very brief (like, one sentence) comment about how "cold reading" works... But then they went into this guy's testing of Edward and his conclusion that he was in fact a psychic "medium".
Then they guy puts out that silly old idea about out "energy" continuing on out into the cosmos and maybe Edward was tapping into that..... All without any skeptical comment whatever.
The problem with these shows is that at the very same time they are presenting an actual neuroscientist who is discussing real research, and a crank with a new-age notion of "energy"... Both of which are presented as equally valid.
However... This morning there was NOTHING on at 10 am and I saw this segment, The Brain, which purported to be reasonably straightforward.
And much of it was...
They talked about memory, and the evolution of various areas of the brain, and people with savant-like memory abilities and also people with no memories at all...
All pretty solid stuff.
Until.... They talked about psychic abilities. They talked with a "researcher" (just one) who was conducting self-designed experiments that included guess who... John Edward.
Now... they did have a very brief (like, one sentence) comment about how "cold reading" works... But then they went into this guy's testing of Edward and his conclusion that he was in fact a psychic "medium".
Then they guy puts out that silly old idea about out "energy" continuing on out into the cosmos and maybe Edward was tapping into that..... All without any skeptical comment whatever.
The problem with these shows is that at the very same time they are presenting an actual neuroscientist who is discussing real research, and a crank with a new-age notion of "energy"... Both of which are presented as equally valid.
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