The Power of Belief

The Power of Belief

The Power of Belief was a ABC News Special aired on October 6, 1998, hosted by John Stossel. Stossel examines popular claims of therapeutic touch, psychic detectives, faith healing voodoo curses, channelling, and the media's lack of inquiry into pseudoscience. [cite news | url=http://www.tampabayskeptics.org/v11n2rpt.html | title=TBS Report Online --- Vol. 11 - No. 2 | publisher=Tampa Bay Skeptics |date=October 1998 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-04-13]

Includes appearances with Michael Shermer, James Randi, David Willey, JZ Knight, Susan Miller, John Monti, Ava Kay Jones, and Elmer Glover.

The episode contains video of the "world's longest firewalk" which included Stossel and Willey taking part. [cite news | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_1_23/ai_53569318 | title=World's longest firewalk: physicist leads hot trek for science in Pennsylvania | publisher=Skeptical Inquirer |date=Jan-Feb, 1999 | first=Dan | last=Noelle | accessdate =2007-04-13]

Robert Todd Carroll called it "a very good survey of popular culture's fascination" with the paranormal. [cite news | url=http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk4.html | title=Mass Media Funk | publisher=The Skeptic's Dictionary |date=October 13, 1998 | first=Robert | last=Carroll | accessdate =2007-04-13] James Randi wrote "ABC-TV, in my opinion, did a really excellent job" with the show. [cite news | url=http://randi.org/hotline/1998/0034.html | title=The Stossel Special | publisher=James Randi Educational Foundation |date=October 7, 1998 | first=James | last=Randi | accessdate =2007-04-13]

References

External links

* [http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1931702 The Power of Belief (Video clip)] from ABC News
* [http://www.csicop.org/cmi/reviews/stossel.html The Power of Belief] from Center for Inquiry
* [http://www.abcnewsstore.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=customer.product&product_code=S000727%2001&category_code=42 The Power of Belief] from ABC News listing
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20000829081750/http://abcnews.go.com/onair/abcnewsspecials/transcripts/specials_belief981006pt1_trans.html The Power of Belief Transcript] from ABC News (archive.org)
* [http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/stoss01.htm The Power of Belief (Unofficial transcript)]
* [http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15328023TOP2803_03 The Teaching of Courses in the Science and Pseudoscience of Psychology: Useful Resources]


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