In his documentary series The Enemies of Reason (see the end of this post for video links), Richard Dawkins talked to hypnotist/magician Derren Brown about the skill of “cold reading” – techniques used by fraudulent mediums (and mentalists) to convince people that they know their personal details. A new DVD has been released of the ‘uncut’ interviews from the documentary, and RichardDawkins.net has announced that the complete interview with Derren Brown is freely available on YouTube (almost an hour total length). I’ve posted part one underneath – you can watch the next five instalments by clicking on the links at the end of the video:
Unfortunately, it would seem that the uncut interview with Rupert Sheldrake is not part of the DVD – that might have made things a touch more interesting…
Previously on TDG:
