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Season 1

  • S01E01 Jacques Benveniste

    • July 5, 1994
    • BBC

    Focuses on the immunologist Jacques Benveniste, who in the late 1980's claimed he had scientific proof of the principles of homoeopathy. There was an investigation into his findings, and the conclusions were that his findings were flawed, if not fraudulent. His colleagues disowned him and he was even accused of disgracing his country.

  • S01E02 Linus Pauling

    • July 12, 1994
    • BBC

    The heresy of Linus Pauling was that he claimed a range of diseases could be cured by taking large amounts of vitamin C. He was condemned until a few years ago when other scientists began to have second thoughts.

  • S01E03 Rupert Sheldrake

    • July 19, 1994
    • BBC

    Documentary on Rupert Sheldrake, a Cambridge biologist who was condemned as a heretic for challenging the principle that life can be explained in terms of DNA. He proposed a new theory called Formative Causation, the idea of which was that all life depends on morphic fields.

  • S01E04 Hans Eysenck

    • July 26, 1994
    • BBC

    Portrait of the psychologist who is considered beyond the pale by all except a small band of devotees.

  • S01E05 Robert Jahn

    • August 2, 1994
    • BBC

    Portrait of the man forced to resign as Dean of Engineering at Princetown University, because of his unorthodox views on psychokinesis.

  • S01E06 Eric Laithwaite

    • August 9, 1994
    • BBC

    Portrait of the unorthodox scientist who has been shunned for the last 20 years because of his belief in an "anti-gravity" machine.