Hypnosis: Does It Really Work?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What is hypnosis? Is it mind control? Are some people just faking? We’re revisiting this episode in which we explore the science of hypnosis and take Science Vs to the edge of consciousness. In the service of journalism, Wendy tries to get hypnotized at a comedy club and in a doctor’s office. We talk to comedian Jim Spinnato, Prof. Philip Muskin, Prof. Amanda Barnier, and Prof. Amir Raz. Find our transcript here: bit.ly/sciencevshypnosis This episode was produced by Heather Rogers, Michelle Dang and Wendy Zukerman, with help from Kaitlyn Sawrey, Austin Mitchell, Diane Wu, and Shruti Ravindran. Edited by Annie-Rose Strasser, Caitlin Kenney and Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Michelle Harris and Ekedi Fausther-Keeys. Sound design and music production by Matthew Boll, mixed by Martin Peralta and Peter Leonard. Music written by Martin Peralta, Bobby Lord, Peter Leonard and Emma Munger. Thanks to Alex Blumberg for being the man that spoke pretty often in the end … and Jonathan Goldstein from the very amazing podcast Heavyweight for being our CIA agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I just don't want him to make me bark like a chicken.
0:07.0	I don't want him to make me do that.
0:11.6	I want to do that in my own volition.
0:16.0	Okay, so we're about to see a hypnosis show on stage at the Mohican Sun Casino, which
0:25.4	is this sprawling complex in eastern Connecticut.
0:31.4	Inside the casino, there is row after row of slot machines and crafts tables.
0:37.0	There's even a life-sized animatronic wolf, which is perched on a fake cliff.
0:43.4	Look at that!
0:44.4	It's a wolf.
0:45.4	It's a wolf.
0:46.4	The wolf just moved.
0:51.0	We're in for a great Sunday night.
0:54.0	Ladies and gentlemen, put it together for the world's greatest hypnotist, your buddy
0:57.5	and mine.
0:58.5	Mr. Jim Spanato!
1:02.3	We met our hypnotist, Jim, backstage before the show.
1:06.6	He told us that he started out his career as just your standard magician.
1:11.8	That was until one day, a couple of decades ago, when he was asked to be the opening act
1:16.9	for a hypnosis show.
1:17.9	I didn't even know what that was.
1:19.9	Then I watched his show and was like, whoa, what is this all about?
1:24.9	What one made you go, whoa?
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