How Beerbiceps finds SCIENCE in SPIRITUALITY | Pseudoscience Police

Hi, Beerbiceps, Ranveerr. I want to talk to you directly because I know someone on social media is going to share this video with you and you're probably watching this right now and you might be tempted to copyright strike me. But if we do that, it'll only look bad on you because it'll seem like you want to silence all criticism. In fact, people have done that to me in the past, and it didn't turn out well for them. So just sit back, relax and let the comments do their job if I make no sen

se. Anyway. Unlike other people that have covered in this series of pseudoscience police, I don't think you're deliberately spreading misinformation and I do not treat arrogance in you and like this guy. So I'm not going to be harsh. I'm going to tell you why you're wrong about many of the things you say and what are the issues with accepting these sorts of ideas, let alone spreading them because you are spreading misinformation, probably unintentionally. Probably you've been misled by pe

ople in your circles. But right now there is a huge audience watching you, especially young people and your misleading all of them. Ranveer, I used to like your content. Back when you were doing fitness videos. I used to watch a lot of your content and as far as I've seen, the advice you were giving was genuinely good, scientifically accurate. And if people follow that advice, they're bound to achieve results. The issues began when you started focusing on spirituality, particularly with

your podcast spirituality, spirituality, spirituality, spirituality, spirituality. What is spirituality? No one can tell you it has no single clear definition. Search and YouTube gives you an unending list of videos, all of which have their own take on spirituality. I mean, people can tell you what spirituality means to them, but that's about it. I'll tell you what it is for me. Go ahead. It's just it's like a few basic factors, the top of which, I've realized over time is meditation lik

e meditations, a huge part of spirituality. Me personally, I do not practice one specific belief what is being spiritual? to be happy, to be in peace, Enthusiastic, energetic, calmer. For me, this is my description of it. The belief that there's energy in the world and you can use the energy and spirituality doesn't really have a specific definition. It can actually be defined in many ways. And because it's all vague and undefinable, spirituality becomes this umbrella under which there

are these ideas, a lot of which are fuzzy ideas that don't have any good evidence for them to ideas. That is a straight up pseudoscience. These are the issues that I see, the spirituality I cover all these points as the video goes on. Let's start with the first one. Because of the lack of evidence for almost all ideas that come of spirituality. You now have to justify them by saying that you have to be open to the possibility. Don't be so close minded, you have to be open. That's the basi

s of spiritual growth. You might even dismiss me as someone who is close minded, but am I close-minded though, if I don't seriously consider an idea that has no supporting evidence for it, am I close minded or am I just rational. I feel that calling people close minded is a cop-out. It's a way of sidestepping any engagement with anyone who might bring a genuine disagreement to the table. Let's talk of religion karma as an example. The moment you understand the concept of karma? You under

stand the concept of rebirth, which I truly, truly believe in. And for the people who say that, you know, how can you prove that it exists? My question to you is, how can you prove that it doesn't exist? There must be some truth in that concept, which has caused so many books to be written on that concept, which has caused so many evolved people to turn to spirituality, so many evolved people to talk about karma so often there has to be some truth. And if you're going to switch off that

possibility completely, you're limiting your own growth. You have to be open. That's the basis of spiritual growth. Be open and curious. Don't come to conclusions. I've mentioned all the logical fallacies that you made in case you want to look them up. But I'll explain what's wrong with this start process with a simple analogy. Suppose I told you that there's a unicorn in your room, but it's invisible - You can't see it, intangible - You can't touch or feel it, and it's silent - you can't

hear it. There's no way for you to infer its existence. So are you going to believe me because you can't prove it doesn't exist. Go ahead. Try. I'll wait. You can't prove that it's not there. So are you going to believe me? You'll just say, Hey, man, it's ridiculous what you just said. Nobody is going to believe you. And I'd say, you're right. You shouldn't believe me. I just made a ridiculous claim that I've not supported with evidence whatsoever. There are 1,000,000 such claims that I

can think of right now, all equally lacking in evidence, all equally ridiculous and all equally undisproveable. Wait. Is that a word? The idea behind karma is kind of like this. It's an exceptional claim with no evidence in support. The only difference is there are many people believing it, but an idea doesn't become right. If there are many people believing it, or if you can't prove it wrong, it becomes believable when there is convincing evidence to support it. You keep saying how ther

e are so many evolved people who believe in this idea, but you don't know the reason. Do they know the reason? Can anyone tell me the reason? The comments are yours I always use what Carl Sagan once said. He said extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence. And that brings us to the next claim. You have a podcast with Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai where you talk about something called Astral Travel. I highly recommend you read that book if you're interested in this concept of your sou

l, leaving your body and traveling around the world, like, as in, your consciousness and your mind going using that pole vaulting technique, getting past your own physical body, and then going and seeing the world and the universe. Yes, rebirth is that I am now. The soul is in this particular body. The soul is Actually using this body, the body will get worn out like an old cloth bahut bar pehen liya Then we go to a new one. So actually a body travelling from one birth to another. And it i

s using different bodies to in his spiritual journey. And also, as somebody put it, we are not human beings on a spiritual journey is actually our spiritual souls on a human journey, now, coming back to astral travel. There are people who actually can use this body. go out of this body maybe enter into another body, use that body and come back. These are just outrageous claims being made with literally no evidence, I can't believe nobody is calling this out showcases where this was observe

d and it wasn't some sort of hallucination. I'm sure that'll make for a brilliant video. I'm sure it'll get a lot of views but there are enough evidences of people actually having out-of-body experiences. Dr. Billy also mentioned this phrase out-of-body experience, which has neurological and psychological explanations behind it, like dreams, deeds and hallucinations and an altered state of consciousness, and can in no way be treated as evidence for the soul. But when you back up these i

ncredible claims with and maybe we'll say, the person is dead, can he come back? Of course he can. There is a process and we are not going to tell you about out-of-body experiences. How is anyone supposed to believe that? Remember, extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence. Let me tell you, I have personally actually gone through this experience, same. both of you, in the podcast , talk about about how you've both had this experience of astral travel. I mean, I don't know if I

was really into spirituality and I really wanted to have an astral travel experience . I might have a dream that I might think is this slightest resemblance of what an astral travel experience would be like. I might mistake it for that. And without examining it a little more closer, I might just jump to the conclusion that I just had an astral travel experience. I think this may have been what happened with you. Either way, these things are far too subjective to be anything other than a p

ersonal experience. Because a lot of the claims that come under spirituality have no basis in science, people who endorse spirituality often find themselves going against science, which is also ahead of modern science. It's way ahead of modern science as of now Sure. L ike, I mean, people like if you say this to like the average person they'll say - eh what are you saying, man? kya bol raha hai? But there is quantum physics behind it, man. I also feel that, you know, do all these things a

re beyond science, but you should also understand that science isn't as advanced as you think it is. There's still a lot for science to discover, especially the western world. Also, I feel that again, I keep saying this in a bunch of our podcasts that there's a whole world of science that the world of science hasn't discovered yet. You often say things like modern science is a long way to go, a long way to go till where?. Till it agrees with your claims right now. What if it doesn't? Are

you gonna reject science then? That's not how this works. Science doesn't really care where an idea comes from. If after thorough research the conclusions are in favor of the idea then it's a good idea otherwise, it's a bad idea. I'll give you an example of one such bad idea astrology. I've done a video on it. It's been studied and researched thousands of times and has been conclusively shown to be pointless. And yet you promot it like it's the next best thing couched in statements that d

efend it from scientific scrutiny like science isn't advanced enough, not just astrology, you different other ideas like manifestation, law of attraction, by the exact same logic. This kind of anti-science narrative that you get your followers to buy into kind of extends itself to other fields as well. For example, medicine a distrust of science, usually translates well into a distrust of medicine. People with serious medical conditions instead of modern scientific medicine opt for alte

rnative medicine I'll leave a link down below to a thread I've written on Twitter on how Steve Jobs lost his life because he chose to treat his cancer, with alternative medicine. Another thing that I've noticed you push often is this notion of Western science. And again, what you said about ayurved talking about things, but western science is not. Western science is is going to discover 20 million things in the next 20 years Do you kind of feel that Western thought has kind to taken ove

r all of the world where unless there is a Western scientific proof about something, people just don't buy it anymore. This eastern western dichotomy does not exist in science. There is only one science. But this false dichotomy that you promote pushes this notion that ideas from the East are seen as bad ideas because they're from the East. And that's not the case at all they're bad ideas simply because they are bad ideas, not because they're from the East. What I see happening is a lot o

f young people want your content and end up moving away from science, especially at a time when humanity is approaching things like interplanetary travel and asteroid mining and stuff, none of which would be possible without science. If we want the country to advance well into the 21st century, which I've seen you talk about aur sabhi ka ek common goal hai ki India ko change karna. Hamne basically, maan lo tabthak 2 billion log hai India me ya 3 billion hai India me hamne 1 billion logon k

o capture kiya aur ham unke thoughts influence kar rahe hai for the positives of the country. do you think that's a possibility? Then there should be a much greater emphasis on science. But I don't see that now, on the other hand, while you do all these things while you go against science in some of the things you use science to support some of the claims you make. Isn't there an irony there? in your podcast with Abhijith Pradhan, that is an attempt to reconcile spirituality and science? N

ow coming back to quantum physics, you told me one very beautiful story about 2001, when the World Trade Center attacks had happened. Could you just like, share it with the viewers? Because this kind of blew me away, and I'm sure they blew them away as well. So I got into this rabbit hole of quantum physics from the documentary called What the bleep do we know? OK, so what the bleep do we know? It's really about hey we look at the world. From one perspective, what the bleep do we know as

a very valid acclaimed 2004 pseudoscience documentary And I watched the whole thing for this video. No.1 It's a pseudo science documentary, so things being expressed in the documentary are supposed to be taken with a pinch of salt. And number two, there is no such experiment that he mentions where meditators change the pH of water. It's not there in the whole documentary. And then found no research, which talks about such an experiment, either a living link down below to that documenta

ry. It's right here on YouTube. You can go watch and make sure that what I'm seeing is correct, and yeah Abhijith is right. It's not the woo-woo experiment. It's a plain lie. I put a link to the whole podcast down below. You can go watch it and make sure I'm not taking his words out of context. Make sure that this is the idea that he is expressing. Basically, he's talking about this quantum phenomena called entanglement. There is. There is this principle called entanglement. Yeah. What doe

s that basically mean? It means that two electrons, they interact with each other, they suddenly connect. And even if they are separated in, one electron is in Alaska and the other one is in Himalayas or whatever. What happens to electron A happens simultaneously to electron B, and that's called entanglement, and it's a quantum physics thing. So this has been proven by scientific experiments, et cetera. So when you think of that same thing of, Hey, I thought of someone and that person co

nnects, something is something is getting communicated when someone thinks of you and you get this feeling that you're being thought of, This may be what's happening. This is not even an explanation, because quantum mechanics deals purely with the subatomic world, so then something happens in the macro world. You can't use this as an explanation. So when someone thinks of you and you get that feeling and you can figure out a way, you can be sure that it's not because of quantum mechanics.

I see a similar thing that happens in this video as well. In quantum mechanics, they say that if you keep walking into a wall 1,000,000 times, eventually you will be able to walk through it. What she's talking about is a quantum phenomenon called tunneling when an electron is on one side of a wall or barrier of very high potential. It has no way of being seen on the other side. But quantum mechanics gives it a chance of probability of being found on the other side. This only becomes sign

ificant in nano-electronics electronics in very tiny transistors of nanometers of gate-length However, once again, we see it being applied to something that happens in the macroscopic world - to human interaction. In this case, coming back to your science and spirituality podcast, you talk about Reiki and how it has helped you personally. So basically reiki is touch healing So say you're injured. In a particular part, someone will conduct a reiki session over that particular part of your b

ody and related parts that also injured. I'm going to heal you to their touch. Now, this is not scientific proof behind this, but you've experienced reiki I've experienced reiki what you feel is actually real, and this is something only Reiki practitioner will be able to vouch for. Have you seen faith healers and the believers who are being healed? I'm sure you agree that it's fake. It's as close scrutiny. Come on this. Pow in the name of Jesus. But thousands of people attend those eve

nts and they genuinely feel their pain and the ailment gone. So why is it a scam? It's because a person's subjective experience is influenced by a lot of factors. For example, the psychological need to be healed can give rise to the placebo effect, and the high energy events that these people hold can cause adrenaline rush. And adrenaline is a hormone which which suppresses pain and discomfort. And it's a scam because this adrenaline rush is temporary. People pay the healer, come back home

and find that their pain and their ailment has come back and they haven't really been healed. That's why a person's subjective experience, their subjective feeling of whether a treatment help them or not, cannot be used as as a way of measuring how effective treatment is. When a person feels better from a treatment, you need to make sure that it's the treatment that's making them feel better and not any of these other factors. You need to control these other factors. That's exactly wha

t the clinical trial does. It make sure that their treatment is effective before it gets approved Have this sort of trials or research been applied to Reiki? Yes, they have, and they show no evidence in support. In fact, the ideas that Reiki is based on like life energy, or chi or prana or chakra points. There is no empirical evidence for any of them, either. Once a person believes ideas that have no evidence for them, it's easier for them to start believing more such ideas. You often fi

nd people who believe in a bunch of such ideas. If a person believes in astrology, you can also bet that they believe in crystal healing. The law of Attraction in Energy's chakras, etc. You yourself have promoted a bunch of these ideas on your podcast. Once you start this journey into spirituality, you will find yourself falling prey to a lot of such ideas and the use of race falling prey. Because a lot of these ideas are just predatory scams. Ideas like crystal healing or law of attract

ion they're full of these grifters want to make you think, who want to make a quick buck out of you by making think you got some value out of the money you paid. Scams. Then there are these pseudo science champions that you've endorsed in your podcast who run their own cults. I mean, foundations. I'm not going to talk about them in detail here. I've done videos in the past, but that's what I have to say about spirituality. I hope I've justified all the points that I mentioned in the begin

ning, and I'll add to it. I don't think spirituality offers anything unique. There's nothing you can find only in spirituality that you can find anywhere else. And in my opinion, it's not worth going into spirituality and risking falling for all these scams. But with you Ranveer, the pseudoscience does not stop with spirituality. Let's see what else you endorse. I want to start off on this whole NoFap thing. This is something a lot of teenage guys especially are very, very young guys. I

think our audience is primarily young and teenage guys only. What's your whole situation with NoFap? How did you get into it? And like, you know, you are following it, right? Yes. first of all, I did not when I came across this nofap and semen retention, are both ideas lacking in research There aren't enough studies. But what? Whatever is there does not support the idea This study says that masturbation is not only harmless, but is normal. It doesn't conclude any benefits of long periods

of abstaining from masturbation. Whatever the benefits are claimed to be associated with nofap may be due to a placebo effect or anticipation of benefit from hearing other people talk about it. one thing that I've noticed is people who heavily endorse ideas like NoFap usually cite their own experiences as a source, I've explained how that's extremely subjective. Prone to bias and cannot be treated as a reliable form of evidence. As for semen retention, let's see what you say on your podcas

t is the biology behind this concept that your actual semen liquid - does it get absorbed by the cell walls or something like what do you think? Do you have any knowledge about this? I'm not sure how much forward modern science has gone into it, but ayurveda is very clear about the fact that it moves upwards and reaches your brain and overall body? In fact, in even even in YSS, there are certain kinds of pranayam breathing exercises through which you can actually change the flow of semen.

So I've learned a pranayam like this. We're not allowed to talk about this on a public platform (doesn't sound like a cult at all...) but there are actually techniques in yoga which allow you to change the direction of semen's flow. A lot of conclusions from Ayurveda and Yoga are not based on empirical evidence. Semen flowing upward and nourishing our brain is an extraordinary claim. And if that's not backed up with evidence better than "Ayurveda says so" then it's just a claim without ev

idence. Here's what empirical research I did find on semen retention. This study concludes that it may be beneficial if you reduce your duration of abstinence. Anything more than a few days may not be beneficial, and it doesn't conclude anything like semen flows to your brain and nourishes it or whatever. Either way, there are enough studies that conclude that either practice is healthy or unhealthy, and since we don't have enough conclusions on the matter, we shouldn't go around making

out own the idea of alpha males or any other category of males in human society is not science back. I've seen your video on alpha males, and it doesn't really focus on this categorization, but rather on what an "asli mard" or a real man is. And to be honest, this idea is really regressive because it creates this undue pressure on men to be a certain way. And it can be really toxic because young men begin hating themselves for not living up to a certain standard. That's an easy ticket to

bad mental health, and you've openly stated how you're against hookup culture and you're a one woman man and you've backed it up pseudoscience like - it can really fuck up your head like it's going to mess you up if you're just, you know, sleeping around with multiple people. Also, the the spiritual aspect of sex is they say that when you choose to have sex with someone, you're accepting all of their karmas as yours. Absolutely. It's a sacred thing. You are giving your energy to someone el

se. You know, someone else is giving their energy to you and then you go home and you have sex with someone else or your partner and stuff. There's an energy mix that's happening that can emotionally affect a man and a woman in the world of yoga keeps talking about how physical intimacy contains a lot of exchange of energy. Even when you kiss somebody, you do exchange your energies. There is a transference of one energy to the other. This is completely ridiculous and not evidence backed

whatsoever. But while you say all this at the same time, you go on to make videos like these - ladki kaise pataye, proven tinder tips. Doesn't this promote hookup culture? Isn't that hypocrisy? I mean, I get how a large section of your audience wants to view content like this, but you shouldn't compromise your values for views. I also see content like this, whether thumbnails are offering just pure click bait and click bait isn't necessarily bad, but this promotes certain ideas or message

s in your content, which are again not evidence based and that isn't really fitting for what you call India's smartest podcast, right? Like I said in the beginning, the things you promote may be a result of whatever influences you may have had, and you're only promoting what what you feel is right, I presume . But it may be useful to listen to criticisms from the other side instead of just dismissing them as close-minded. Hey, if you can listen to the criticisms and defend your viewpoint

s, then you can be even more confident in the things you say. Right? Either way Ranveer, I hope you learn and grow from this whatever I've pointed out things that I feel is wrong with the content. I've heard similar opinions from multiple others, but if you disagree with me, feel free to let me know why the comments are all yours and to the rest of the people watching, I hope you liked the video. Feel free to stick on because I have a message for you at the end. I've started memberships o

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