Research Neuroscience: Our Brains Can Be Tricked to Improve Health or Cause Disease and Why The Telepathy Tapes Lacked Scientific Evidence

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Neuropsychology researcher Dr. Amir Raz (author of The Suggestible Brain) gives us his skeptic’s take on chart-topping podcast, The Telepathy Tapes. With Dr. Raz’s understanding of the neuroscience of belief systems, he breaks down how effective The Telepathy Tapes really are in scientifically proving extra-sensory abilities and debunks the scientific validity of the podcast’s experiments and paranormal brainwave program. Understand why science is unable to provide real proof of telepathy and how the scientific method can fall short when addressing questions of our consciousness. Plus, stay tuned for his research surrounding the placebo effect and how he was able to temporarily cure a teenager’s Tourette’s syndrome! You don’t want to miss this in-depth review of extra-sensory abilities and how our brains are more in control of our bodies than we realize!

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0:00.0	Scientists are very, very difficult people.
0:03.0	You know, even if you show them data, they need a lot of time,
0:07.0	a lot of replications, a lot of studies that would do the same thing again and again
0:12.0	until they're convinced and for a good reason, because that's how we make progress.
0:17.0	Sometimes you have to wait for certain scientists to die out before you can have new people come in and introduce new paradigms and new ideas and also new kinds of thinking.
0:29.6	Since we have social media, we have certain intimations that we should not trust, resources that we used to previously trust.
0:39.1	I wonder if you feel like the culture that we live in is presenting a new set of challenges
0:43.1	for science and for belief.
0:46.4	I mean, we're bombarded with information.
0:48.5	It's difficult for us to decide what are credible sources, who are credible people.
0:53.1	It's difficult for us to even sift through the information.
0:56.4	We have to choose our sources, our avenues of information.
0:59.7	And as a result, science is going to change.
1:03.1	There is no question about it, particularly social science,
1:06.6	because technology is changing at a evolutionary rate that is faster than our biology.
1:19.5	Hi, I am I am Biolic.
1:20.9	I'm Jonathan Cohen.
1:21.9	And welcome to our breakdown.
1:23.6	This is the place we break down how we understand our realities.
1:29.2	This is the place where we break down reality itself.
1:32.5	We are interested in exploring the intersection of science and the spiritual experience.
1:40.2	We believe, as many of you do, that there are things that we experience that can always be
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