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Audio uploads of Dedham TV's "502 Conversations". Conversations with experts in their fields about science; skepticism; medicine; quackery; pseudoscience; philosophy; belief, why and how we believe; knowledge; and more. Guests have included Dr. Paul Offit; microbiologist Natalia Pasternak; Julia Sweeney; Sheldon Helms; JAMA Editor in Chief Dr. Howard Bauchner; Massimo Pigliucci; James Randi; Ray Hyman; James Alcock; Dr. Harriet Hall; and others. Full interviews also available on youtube. © 2022 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
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March 23, 2025
<p>A video version of this show is available at <a href="https://youtu.be/jNo6479P3C4" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/jNo6479P3C4</a></p><p>Stuart Vyse is a behavioral scientist, teacher, and writer, with a PhD in psychology. He is an expert on superstition and irrational behavior, and has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Vyse has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN International, the PBS NewsHour, and NPR’s Science Friday. Dr. Vyse is the author of several books, including Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, which won the William James Book Award of the American Psychological Association; Superstition: A Very Short Introduction; and, The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to be Rational.He is a contributing editor for Skeptical Inquirer magazine with his “Behavior & Belief” column, and has also written for the Observer, Medium, The Atlantic, The Good Men Project, Tablet, and Time.Dr. Vyse is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. © 2025 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission, is prohibited. </p><p>Further resources:stuartvyse.comfacilitatedcommunication.org<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@fcisnotscience" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/@fcisnotscience</a>Stuart Vyse “The Telepathy Tapes” article: <a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-telepathy-tapes-a-dangerous-cornucopia-of-pseudoscience/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-telepathy-tapes-a-dangerous-cornucopia-of-pseudoscience/</a>Prisoners of Silence PBS Frontline 1993 <a href="https://ia902900.us.archive.org/33/items/PrisonersofSilence/Frontline.S11E17.Prisoners.of.Silence.1993.VHSRip.AAC2.0.x264-rattera.mp4" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ia902900.us.archive.org/33/items/PrisonersofSilence/Frontline.S11E17.Prisoners.of.Silence.1993.VHSRip.AAC2.0.x264-rattera.mp4</a>Project Alpha: <a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/1983/07/the-project-alpha-experiment-part-1-the-first-two-years/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://skepticalinquirer.org/1983/07/the-project-alpha-experiment-part-1-the-first-two-years/</a><a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/1983/10/the-project-alpha-experiment-part-2-beyond-the-laboratory/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://skepticalinquirer.org/1983/10/the-project-alpha-experiment-part-2-beyond-the-laboratory/</a>N-Rays “The story of N-rays, which fooled many respectable scientists, has been used ever since as a cautionary tale of how easy it is to deceive oneself into seeing something that is not really there.” <a href="https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200708/history.cfm" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200708/history.cfm</a>and <a href="https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-n-rays/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-n-rays/</a></p>
February 21, 2025
<p>A video version of this conversation is available at <a href="https://youtu.be/uJ-ufcTJQnY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://youtu.be/uJ-ufcTJQnY</a></p><p>Bernie Garrett, PhD, is a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Nursing with over 35 years of experience in both critical care nursing and nursing education in the UK and Canada. He holds a PhD in information science, and has a number of specialist clinical and educational qualifications. Bernie Garrett has authored several science and clinical textbooks; chapters in edited books; and numerous research papers. His work is underpinned by a passion for health science and technology, and he holds provincial and national awards for his work in furthering nurse education. © 2025 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission, is prohibited.</p><p>References:“An act establishing a board of registry in naturopathy.” n.d. https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2016/Chapter400.Atwood, Kimball C. and Massachusetts Medical Society. 2001. “Naturopathy: A Monograph.” https://centerforinquiry.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2021/07/12132253/opposition.pdf.Garrett, Bernard M., and Roger L. Cutting. 2017. “Magical Beliefs and Discriminating Science From Pseudoscience in Undergraduate Professional Students.” Heliyon 3 (11): e00433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00433.Garrett, Bernie, Sue Murphy, Shahin Jamal, Maura MacPhee, Jillian Reardon, Winson Cheung, Emilie Mallia, and Cathryn Jackson. 2018. “Internet Health scams—Developing a Taxonomy and Risk‐of‐deception Assessment Tool.” Health & Social Care in the Community 27 (1): 226–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12643.Garrett, Bernie, Timothy Caulfield, Blake Murdoch, Matt Brignall, Atul Kumar Kapur, Susan Murphy, Erin Nelson, et al. 2021. “A Taxonomy of Risk‐associated Alternative Health Practices: A Delphi Study.” Health & Social Care in the Community 30 (3): 1163–81. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13386.Risk of Deception Tool https://news.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RoD-tool.pdfRosa L, Rosa E, Sarner L, Barrett S. A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch. JAMA. 1998;279(13):1005–1010. doi:10.1001/jama.279.13.1005https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/187390“VHA Directive 1137- VA Provision of Complementary-Integrative Health.” n.d. https://www.va.gov/WHOLEHEALTH/professional-resources/clinician-tools/cih.asp.</p>
February 4, 2025
<p>Katharine Beals has a PhD in linguistics, is adjunct assistant at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and is an adjunct professor at both the Drexel University and Temple University schools of education. Dr. Beals specializes in language and literacy acquisition in autism, language technologies for autistic individuals, educational challenges for students with autism, evidence based instruction, and the problems with FC as an intervention in autism. </p> <p>© 2025 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission, is prohibited.</p> <p>Video version available at <a href="https://youtu.be/nldpkNllFDE" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/nldpkNllFDE</a></p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>D’Souza, K. (2022). A movement rises to change the teaching of reading. EdSource. https://edsource.org/2022/a-movement-rises-to-change-the-teaching-of-reading/675989 Travers, J., & Ayres, K. (2015). A critique of presuming competence of learners with autism or other developmental disabilities. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilitites, 50(4), 371–387. Travers, J. (2020). Rapid prompting method is not consistent with evidence-based reading instruction for students with autism. Perspectives on Language, Winter 2020. https://tinyurl.com/4up9y7nd</p>
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