Movies and Videos -
Educational, Documentation and Exciting
On this page, we have listed links to videos and movies that we think are interesting, educational or even must-see videos. They concern topics like cell culture, vaccination, genetics, biology, chemistry, virology, ethics, physics etc.
Single Videos
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Archive.org |
Adam Curtis' "The Way of all Flesh" Also look at the book "The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks" on our books page. |
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BBC learning | BBC Horizon: Trial And Error, The Rise And Fall Of Gene Therapy (1 of 4; ca. 45min for all 4 chapters) This is the link to the first of 4 parts of a documentary on the gene therapy study performed in 1999 by Dr. Jim Wilson (Univ. Pennsylvenia) for OTC-Deficiency. During the course of this study the first patient died from gene therapy. The movie is a little populistic and features the topic and medicine only from one angle but still on the basis of this one case, it summarizes one general problem in medicine: hybris. |
Gene therapy |
CBC |
"Origin of Aids: The Polio Vaccine" ? |
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CanaryParty | Due to the large increase in vaccination especially in the US, the topic vaccination is hotly debated in the internet, on conferences and on social media platforms. While the PROs list the reduction or eradication of several diseases, the CONs list a growing number of side effects that might arise from over vaccination. This is a video of the Canary Party in which parents describe what "side effects" meant in the case of their children. Stron allergic reactions, autism and death are among the consequences and due to sometimes direct establishment of these effects after a vaccination there is increasing "evidence" that vaccination should be reevaluated and maybe early (postnatal and early childhood) vaccination (49 shots of 14 vaccines until the age of 6) should be more restricted and limited to the justified vaccinations. | |
Prof. Chris Bishop | Chemical Curiosity: MUST-SEE prize winning chemistry demonstartion lecture about chemical reactions with pH-indicators, dry ice, change of aggregation states, light emmiting reactions etc. | |
Prof. Chris Bishop | The Science of Fireworks: Explosive chemistry demonstartion. | Science of Fireworks |
Statements and Interviews at the end of life oder post mortem
Everything has two sides - good and bad - and the same holds true for science. The last 200 years have brought about huge developments in science and medicine but also in respect of industrial profit from research. So it might not be so surprizing that more and more stories about the bad sides of science emerge. Some of the old guys maybe driven by their concience publish or state facts from their past career shortly before they die or after ending their pharmaceutical careers. Some of these statements are rather shocking, but to learn from mistakes is a central dogma in quality management. So maybe such statements support the development of safer science and medicine.
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inlieswetrust.com | Interview with Dr. Maurice Hilleman who used to work for Merck Vaccine Division. He talks about the "crude science" that was the basis of the development of the first vaccine production. Viruses in cell cultures were - he states - a large problem in these times but there was not much one could do about it except to keep quite. SV40, Leukämieviren, HIV were known to be contaminants. | |
Adam Abraham |
Adam and "GM" examine the events that led up to the introduction of the HeLa cell, along with its nature. Also, the work of Edward Jenner, Charles Creighton, Jonas Salk, Walter Nelson-Rees, Maurice Hilleman, and others, are explored. Video from MG and Adam Abraham in which they talk about the history of Eduard Jenner, who was attributed as "the father of vaccination" and his opponent Charles Creighton. They mention many different sources of information and they discuss their value. Most interestingly, they document that Jenner never held a PhD or MD until he received "an honorary degree". Probably he was the first one to use mercury in vaccines. However, he did not use it as an adjuvans but to cope with the Treponema pallidum contamination causing Syphilis. Charles Creighton in his time wrote some very critical articles about Jenner and his vaccination due which he was scientifically discredited. |