Skeptic Check: Stay Skeptical

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Whether you call it hooey, codswallop, or malarky, misinformation is not what it used to be. It’s harder to spot now. New-school BS is often cloaked in the trappings of math, science, and statistics. Can you identify which tweets about a new COVID study are fraudulent? Plus, deceptive on-line advertisements that relentlessly beg for our attention. All in all, it’s a jungle out there. We have tips for getting through it. Guests: Carl Bergstrom – Evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington and author of “Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.” Franziska Roesner – Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington Eric Zeng – Graduate student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	In these trying times, you have to
1:10.0	in these trying times you have to slogog through a tsunami of information every day
1:16.0	whether it's mail flooding your inbox, text scrolling on your screen, or the
1:20.2	pronouncements of TV pundits.
1:22.8	Much of this information is straightforward and truthful,
1:25.3	but some of it is what we used to politely call hogwash,
1:29.3	and it's getting harder to tell the difference.
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