The Enemies Of Reason - (Part 2)
The Irrational Health Service. C4 Mon 20 Aug 2007 8pm. 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.
The Enemies Of Reason - (Part 1)
Dawkins points to some of science?s achievements and describes it as freeing ?most of us? from superstition and dogma. Picking up from his superstition-reason distinction in The Root of All Evil? (while recycling some footage from it), he then says reason is facing an ?epidemic of superstition? that ?impoverishes our culture? and introduces gurus that persuade us ?to run away from reality?. He calls the present day ?dangerous times?. He returns to science?s achievements, including ...