Undiluted humour: If Homeopathy Beats Science
I know I really shouldn’t… But I can’t help myself.
This video, picked up via undergraduate biology student Michael Hawkins’s blog (which has just been restored to him after considerable fuss) is too good to pass up. Can’t beat British humour.
The alert will note the signage in the ’hospital’.
In case you’re wondering, it’s taken from the BAFTA award-winning British (BBC 2) comedy sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look.
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11 Responses to “Undiluted humour: If Homeopathy Beats Science”
HIlarious!! Homeopathy is arguably the most dangerous superstition in the modern world. Oh sorry , if homeopathy is there, can we say it a ‘modern world’? Arguably the most dangerous superstition of 21st century.
I love that clip,
In the same vein, Mitchell and Webb also have one on “lifestyle nutritionists”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SavsJYXWgm8
and then there’s Dara O’Brien on journalistic balance and various forms of quackery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIaV8swc-fo
Thanks David.
Seen both of these! There is quite a bit of That Mitchell and Webb Look on YouTube.
I have to admit I’d like to see YouTube’s captions-on-demand feature ramp up. ( I wrote about this earlier: https://sciblogs.co.nz/code-for-life/2009/11/21/automatic-video-captions-for-youtube/ ) I find some things hard to follow; on top of that comedies have this annoying habit of starting laughter tracks just before the punchline, which in some cases means I can’t hear the punchline… Duh! :-/
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