The complete documentary produced and aired by BBC Channel 4 in Great Britiain 2007. Has political hype skewed the scientific debate over this complicated, controversial topic? Hear the opposing viewpoint. Some ideas presented in this video are outdated or highly speculative/controversial in their own right. Wikipedia link spells out ...

The Irrational Health Service. Prof Richard Dawkins looks at how health has become a battleground between reason and superstition. A third of us now spend a total of over 1.6 billion a year on superstitious alternative remedies, but 80% of them have never been subjected to properly conducted trials.

Society appears to be retreating from reason. Apparently harmless but utterly irrational belief systems from astrology to New Age mysticism, and clairvoyance to alternative health remedies, are booming. Evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins confronts this epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking. He explains the dangers the ...