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Skeptoid #187: Emergency Handbook: What to Do When a Friend Loves Woo

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2010

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How you can help a friend or loved one with a potentially harmful pseudoscientific belief

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today we have a very important episode for you.

0:06.7

Building on the experience of all the Skeptoid episodes to date, today I'm sharing my best

0:11.8

recommendations for how you can help a friend or loved one who is mired in some strange,

0:18.5

conspiratorial or possibly harmful belief.

0:22.3

Helping people make better decisions by being able to tell what's real from what's not

0:27.3

is the core of what we do here at Skeptoid.

0:31.4

Our emergency handbook is coming up next on Skeptoid.

0:36.3

Hey everyone, Brian here, a quick favor we are conducting an audience survey.

0:47.1

We'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey.

0:51.4

This is the kind of thing that's sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make

0:54.8

the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish.

0:58.4

So please check it out.

1:00.1

Also surveys are fun, you get to talk about yourself.

1:03.3

Please visit survey.prx.org slash Skeptoid to take the survey today.

1:10.6

That's survey.prx.org slash SKEPTOID.

1:18.3

Thanks.

1:24.1

For listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, emergency handbook,

1:30.7

what to do when a friend loves woo.

1:33.9

It's the number one most common question I get.

1:38.0

My wife, my friend, my mom, my boss, is investing their health or their money in some magical

1:43.9

or fraudulent product scheme or belief.

1:47.2

What can I do about it?

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