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​ Professor Dave Explains the origin of life, trans rights, creationism and more!

I call them like I see them. When someone's a fraud, I call them a fraud. When someone's lying, I present their lies to them, if in the case of a debate, to their face, and press them. I'm not here to play nice. This is not how I would behave with someone with whom I have a genuine disagreement

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The Poison On Your Plate! Unbelievable Food Facts with Krish Ashok!

So today, it's Krish Ashok, who is quite the Renaissance man. He's written a book called Masala Lab. He's got an Instagram channel called Masala Lab. He has been debunking food myths and knows the science, history, and geography behind pretty much every form of Indian food there is.

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Why do People Believe in Pseudoscience? Interview with Science is Dope

Today, I am here with Pranav. He created the channel Science is Dope on Youtube, and he's got a second channel going now that’s also seeing quite a bit of success where he is debating people left, right, and centre, live-streaming it. And he's been a big inspiration for me to get back into the YouTube business. So thank you for coming on, Pranav.

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Scamming Autistic People: Exposing Facilitated Communication

Janyce Boynton used to be a facilitator who helped non-verbal autistic people communicate in a method called facilitated communication. She soon discovered that facilitated communication was a horrible scam taking advantage of these vulnerable people and their families. Now, it also goes by names like Rapid Prompting Method, Assisted Typing, Spelling to Communicate, and many more. So she set to work exposing the whole deal. This is her story.

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Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh – Part 1: The Fascinating science of pain

Dr Sumaiya Shaikh and I had a fantastic interview where we talked about a variety of topics including pseudoscience, alternative medicine, religion, extremism and the neurological tendency of us human beings to be violent. The interview went on for quite a while so it has been split into three parts so that you can take it in one bite at a time.

In the first part, we open the conversation with her work in the study of the neurophysiology of pain. There’s a lot more to pain than you may think, and we get a fascinating glimpse of that today.

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