[Unedited] Erik Vance with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

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🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Science writer and reporter Erik Vance says today’s brain scientists are like astronomers of old: They’ve unsettled humanity’s sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the cosmos within our own heads. Vance has investigated the healing power of stories and the “theater of medicine” (white coats included). It turns out that the things that make us feel better are often more closely connected to what we believe and fear than to the efficacy of some treatments. In fact, most drugs that go to trial can’t beat what we’ve dismissively called the “placebo effect,” which is actually nothing less than an unleashing of the brain’s superpowers.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.5	Spiritual Foundation for a Loving World. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.3	principle and animating force for our lives, a powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.3	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.4	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with Science Rider and reporter Eric Vance.
0:29.3	There is a shorter, produced version of this, as always, wherever you found this podcast.
0:35.3	Good afternoon and welcome to the Pulitzer Center's annual conference. This year we're focused on
0:39.8	the theme of religion, as you may have gathered by now. Thanks to all of you for being here today
0:45.9	for these conversations. I'm Natalie Appelweit, I'm the managing director of the Pulitzer Center.
0:51.3	And we have a really exciting program ahead today. This is a first for us.
0:55.9	A live taping of the award-winning National Show and Podcast on Being with Christa Tippett,
1:01.2	which is produced by the On Being Project and distributed to public radio stations by PRX.
1:07.4	Christa will be joined by award-winning writer and Pulitzer Center grantee, Eric Vance.
1:13.1	And we also hope you'll join the conversation and extend the impact by sharing your thoughts and
1:18.7	ideas with us on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag Pulitzer Beyond Religion.
1:25.1	And please make sure to follow us more generally across the social media channels at Pulitzer Center.
1:31.5	For those of you who are new to the Pulitzer Center, we're a nonprofit journalism and education
1:36.2	organization based here in Washington, D.C. We partner with journalists and newsrooms to support
1:42.0	in-depth reporting around the world, now resulting in over 150 projects a year.
1:47.9	Our journalism appears in major news media outlets across the country, reaching millions on
1:53.3	the most critical issues of our time. We also believe that education is as important to our mission
1:59.3	as the journalism that we support. And in an effort to build a better informed public and
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