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Prof. Michael Baum Interview (2/6) – Richard Dawkins
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This is the full, uncut interview with Professor Michael Baum which was filmed for Channel 4's "The Enemies of Reason." Michael Baum is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at University College London. The discussion covers alternative and complimentary medicines, and how they interact with scientific medicine. This video is provided free online by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and richarddawkins.net . If you enjoy the video and would like to support our work, please purchase the program on DVD (which includes 8 other uncut interviews) at richarddawkins.net
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March 23rd, 2010 - 10:48
Nothing but nature eh? Ricin? Anthrax? Dog sh!t? polonium? neutron stars?
Natural doesn’t mean good.
Which natural anaesthetic are you going to want when you need an operation? And which natural antibiotic?
March 23rd, 2010 - 11:27
what a very interesting and pleasant man this Baum chap seems.
March 23rd, 2010 - 11:35
No – Julius Cesaer’s piss could not have reached out to the entire universe, because even if it had set off from his bladder at the speed of light it would not yet have reached water in farther flung parts of the universe – that cannot be right.
March 23rd, 2010 - 11:43
@MopDMTBARTL did you not hear the bit which says it is called alternative medicine as it doesnt work as well. if it worked better – then it would just be the main medicine rather than alternative.
March 23rd, 2010 - 12:07
You are full of shit.
March 23rd, 2010 - 12:44
Yeah, water is a great cure for cancer. Oh, wait.
March 23rd, 2010 - 13:08
Unless you are a doctor, QUIT GIVING MEDICAL ADVICE! It is irresponsible and dangerous to give people advice on which you are not an athority.
March 23rd, 2010 - 13:54
Homeopathy is FAR better than modern science of DRUG COMPANIES – synthetic chemicals DON’T WORK. Nature is always the best. your number one medicine is the best herb of them all – CANNABIS!!!
i do zero over the counter drugs or prescription pills – nothing but NATURE. Whole Foods. Fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, meat in moderation – cannabis!
wake up people. wake the fuk up!
go here:
truthknowledge. com
March 23rd, 2010 - 14:12
His comment about the universe was wrong.
March 23rd, 2010 - 14:25
Question: Why is the kettle boiling?
Atheist answer: Because the water’s been heated to 100 degrees centigrade resulting in a change in state from liquid to gas.
Christian answer: Because I want to have some tea.
For more about how Atheists and Christians interpret evidence very differently, check out my channel.
March 23rd, 2010 - 14:25
I love the comment he makes at 2:20.
March 23rd, 2010 - 14:29
Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them.
March 23rd, 2010 - 14:55
It is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs boss has gone public. His comments come days after it emerged that the NHS drugs bill has soared by nearly 50 per cent in three years, rising by £2.3bn a year to an annual cost to the taxpayer of £7.2bn. GSK announced last week that it had 20 or more new drugs under development that could each earn the company up to $1bn (£600m) a year.
March 23rd, 2010 - 14:58
Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them.
March 23rd, 2010 - 15:49
I laughed…
March 23rd, 2010 - 16:48
BELIEEEEEVE!
March 23rd, 2010 - 17:25
“That’s the biggest ignorant definition for medicine that I have heard.”
How about giving us a better definition of medicine since you feel you know better.
March 23rd, 2010 - 17:33
All you sinners, LISTEN UP! I’m only going to say this once. The truth, as revealed in the Gospel According To Sheryl Crow, is self evident and you shall bow before it!
Crow, Chapter 12, Verse 2:
“All I want to do is have some fun.”
March 23rd, 2010 - 18:06
Haaa, this is very interesting. I had a friend that was a fundamentalist christian Evangelist to be precise. He terrorized his family with his beliefs and dominated his family with is patriarchate tyranny. He has two daughters, one surrendered to her dad’s lifetime terror and accepted to live in the shadow of her husband which received her dad’s approval. The other daughter rebelled and left home to live a life of non conventional religious beliefs. But became an homeopathic specialist..hahaha
March 23rd, 2010 - 18:40
If it works someones going to sell it, if it doesn’t it labeled herbal and it works like a Placebo.
March 23rd, 2010 - 18:55
It is interesting listening to a couple of incredibly smart individuals discuss something of which they have no idea of what they are talking about.
March 23rd, 2010 - 19:27
>”So placebo is medicine too then? ”
That is a very valid question. There is no doubting the power of the placebo effect. And the sexier and more extravangant the ‘medicine’, the better.
For it to be classed as medicine it needs to work more than placebo. So no, placebo isn’t medicine.
But in the absence of medicine as an option, I admit placebo may be better than nothing… (assuming you can afford it and are ignorant enough to not realise it’s just a placebo – which would ruin the effect!)
March 23rd, 2010 - 19:36
“There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. Medicine either works or it doesn’t. If it works then it is simply ‘medicine’. ”
So placebo is medicine too then?
March 23rd, 2010 - 20:24
Gulp, well I am on the side of the evil chemicals, you can put the leather strap down now and walk away slowly.
It is terrifying that such levels of ignorance exist in this day and age, some people appear to be living in the dark ages when spirits and scary demons hid in the shadows cast by their religions.
Holy water has passed it’s expiry date.
Sadly, to make some people healthy, often their ‘upstairs department’ needs to be fixed as well as their hairy evolved ape bodies.
March 23rd, 2010 - 20:52
//We have some nice strips of leather you can bite on when the pain gets bad. //
ha ha ha… What kind of kinky hospital do you work for? Thanks for admitting that your hospital sucks and showing light on your knowledge on ‘medicine’.