A number of people sent this one in, and for good reason (Patrick, Chris, and Sean, thanks!). This is one of the best send-ups of homeopathy I’ve ever seen . . . I laughed, I cried, I watched it three times in a row. From Brit show That Mitchell and Webb Look:
Also from That Mitchell and Webb Look, here’s one about sexist advertising, sent in by Josh:
I like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_Uvg56U_o
There’s a great clip somewhere of Robert Webb playing a stage psychic who, halfway through his act, admits it’s all a con, but I can’t find it right now.
“…Or, even just more money than sense.”
LOL
Sadly I know lots of people who are spending wads of money on that baloney. If you challenge them they get all flipped out. I think they need to ditch the Bach Flower Remedies and get some therapy and Paxil.
LOL
Not that homeopathy isn’t a load asshatery, but I think it is to Skepchicks what gay rights are to fundies. Its something we bash every chance we get and tell people “Hey, now THERE’S a lousy idea!”
‘Course a subtle difference would be that our “You want to do something really harmful” response is backed up by evidence and theirs isn’t.
Chiropractor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frenyYk3jIA&feature=related
Can people levitate?
Is it wrong that the first thing I thought after watching this on Wednesday night (when the show is aired here in Britain) was: “damn, I’d better send that into Skepchicks!”
Looks like I was too slow (and have too short an attention span to carry out any plans).
From the same episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfqht0LEOWQ
This reminds me of Billy Connolly on aromatherapy:
Wednesday? I meant Thursday. Memory’s going too, it seems.
@kaleidoscopic: It’s “The Incident” that ruined your memory.
Remain Indoors
The bad vicar. I love this one, if for no other reason than the vicar reminds me how condesending I can be if I don’t keep myself on a lesh
@Summer: Yes, friends’ being into woo is why I tend not to link to videos like this on my Facebook page. I’ll link to the odd skeptical or atheistic site, but I don’t want to cut too close to a nerve.
That homeopathy skit was very fun.
But I am not sure why that ad skit is seen as sexist rather than just a statement of the overarching idiocy of most advertising’s primary theme?
Sort of a forest for the trees thing I think.
I mean, yes, the women’s bit has some sexist angle, but the more overarching and profound theme of both is the basic stupidity of both men and women, their inability to function as meaningful or useful entities, their need of product to survive, and of course the overall stereotyping that all that entails.