How I learned to love pseudoscience

Check out Brian Keating’s channel: and have a look at his new book, Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: As a scientist, I spend a lot of time fighting pseudoscience. But I have come to think that pseudoscience is actually good for science, because it helps us to improve our methods. In this video I explain how pseudoscience led to the development of single-blind trials, double-blind trials, and random controls. The text I read at 3 mins 37 seconds is from Claude-Anne Lopez article: Franklin and Mesmer: an encounter. Yale J Biol Med. 1993 Jul-Aug; 66(4): 325–331.