Sadhguru or Why Pseudoscience Persists

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What is the difference between science and pseudoscience? Why do people like Sadhguru enjoy such popularity when much of what they say can be disproven? These are some of the questions I discuss today with Pranav Radhakrishnan.

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Time Stamps:

00:00 - Ayurveda has failed
01:08 - Intro
02:52 - Pranav’s background
07:25 - Pseudoscience in India
12:15 - Sadhguru’s Popularity
16:26 - Are we doomed to always have pseudoscience?
20:03 - Anti-vaccine pseudoscience
24:15 - Pseudoscience vs bad science vs good science (that happens to be wrong)
30:00 - Ayurveda as pseudoscience
34:54 - Replicability Crisis in Science
41:52 - Changing Understanding of Fructose
46:57 - Dunning - Kruger Effect
50:14 - Authority, scientific literacy, and public policy
55:35 - Mandates
1:00:57 - Cultivate scientific literacy
1:04:24 - Sameer’s Story
1:09:54 - The Allure of Easy Answers and Partial Truths

Progressive Pandemic? What's the real progressive take on C19 policies? | R&T #32 with Mark Read

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The C*19 response has largely been split into two camps - those who believe in vaccines, masks, and lockdowns vs those who don't. This is a binary response to a public health crisis that requires nuance. In this discussion, Mark Read and I discuss. Mark teaches Media Studies at NYU and at Southern Main Community College.

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Notes:
Mortality by state: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.10.22270721.abstract

00:00 - The Class Issue
01:20 - Intro
02:57 - Mark’s Background and 90’s activism
07:15 - Science vs Propaganda
11:30 - Questionable benefit, known harm
15:55 - Public Health Officials and the Pandemic of Fear
18:05 - Class and Tribal Identity
19:30 - Natural Immunity and Boosters
23:16 - Paul Offit and Public Trust
25:00 - Understanding the false dichotomy of Status Quo vs Fascism
35:27 - The left needs to organize
38:04 - Corrupt elites breed distrust of institutions
41:35 - Mask science overview
44:50 - When does this end?
46:45 - Red State Blue State experiment
51:55 - Case counts and collective anxiety disorder
56:42 - How do we build our movements?
1:01:38 - The duopoly within hegemony
1:07:17 - Media as a panic generator
1:12:48 - Getting back in-person organizing and Long COVID
1:20:20 - Compassion towards those suffering from anxiety

A Life in Struggle with Vijay Prashad

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What does it mean to be committed to making the world a better place? For Vijay Prashad it means working with those who struggle for justice, for peace and for a better tomorrow. Without the struggle, life isn't worth living.

Vijay's Organization: https://thetricontinental.org/

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Kumi Naidoo on Apartheid, Activism and Taking care of yourself. I've known Kumi a long time, but this was the first time I learned about his family history and what makes him tick.

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There are lots of good things about mainstream medicine. But one of the not-so-good things is commercialisation. When the profit motive dictates what gets prioritised, we run into problems. Homeopathy and other non-traditional forms of medicine may have some answers.

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TIME STAMPS:

00:00 - Malaria v COVID
00:55 - Intro
02:17 - Early life
05:45 - Studying in the Soviet Union
11:25 - South Africa and the fall of the USSR
20:11 - Medical training, medical activism, holistic practice
26:33 - Where Western Medicine gets it wrong
36:04 - Alternative knowledge systems
37:27 - Homeopathy and demonisation
51:45 - Dr. Natalya's advice to young doctors

What does campaigning for justice mean to you? For me it meant putting aside privilege, learning to listen and uniting with others who are interested in campaigning, even if we might not all share the same values.

This is a special episode of the podcast in honor of my new book!
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TIME STAMPS:

00:00 - Listen!
01:03 - Political education
02:29 - Intro
04:28 - Rhiannon's intro
06:15 - Sameer's background
14:24 - Avoiding burnout
18:33 - How do we avoid replicating oppressive systems?
24:18 - Values, organizations, coalitions and campaigning
33:02 - Reform v Revolution: False dichotomy?
37:15 - Systems change solutions
40:29 - Decolonization
43:14 - The Global Economic Justice movement
46:20 - Defining Neoliberalism
49:56 - Global solidarity in an unequal world
57:24 - Thoughts on newer movements

Would a vegan food system be more ethical? Darryl Dempsey would say yes, a vegan food would indeed be more ethical than the current one. He believes that using animals especially sentient animals for food is unethical and unnecessary. In this video he and I have a friendly debate where I argue that the concept of a vegan food system is logically incoherent and that one can make ethical food choices that include eating animals.

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Darryl's Sources:
Sentientism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentioc...

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0b...

U.S. Tree Planting for Carbon Sequestration – Congressional research service
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R40562.pdf

Livestock's long shadow – Food and agriculture organization of the United Nations.
http://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e00.htm

Moving beyond calories and protein: Micronutrient assessment of UK diets and land use
https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/pub...
https://public.flourish.studio/visual... Graph visualising raw data

Carrying capacity of U.S. agricultural land: Ten diet scenarios
https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/a...

USDA- Major Uses of Land in the United States, 2012
https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publ...

CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Country Profiles
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-ot...

Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains
https://www.science.org/news/2021/05/...

Sameer's sources:
Neanderthals ate "an unreasonably huge amount of meat”: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/s...

Humans were hyper-carnivores: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

200,000 ducks killed for rice in NSW: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/2...

Can Single Cells learn? https://www.the-scientist.com/feature...

Corporate consolidation in the food industry: https://theconversation.com/corporate...

Ruminant evolution and perspectives: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Problems with India's beef ban: https://www.ft.com/content/63522f50-c...

TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Why or why not vegan?
01:43 - Intro
03:26 - Darryl's background
05:52 - Darryl's vegan journey
06:32 - Sentienism and other ethical concerns
16:35 - Problems with the agricultural model
19:12 - Decolonized agriculture
24:56 - Land and harm reduction
38:16 - Soil, food systems, and ruminants
49:23 - Rewilding and human evolution
58:31 - Plant agriculture v decolonization
1:03:34 - Science in the lab and the field
1:07:10 - Balance

Has the climate justice movement been successful? Harjeet Singh says yes and no. Harjeet has been working on climate justice in NGO spaces for about two decades.

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