Why Professor Dave Thinks Our Scientific Integrity Is at Jeopardy (#340)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today's guest is no stranger to drama and controversy, and he may have helped you pass a test or two in school… Meet Dave Farina, better known as Professor Dave Explains! Dave is a popular science communicator, chemist, author, and proprietor of one of the largest science YouTube channels in the world. Dave and I first got in contact after I published an interview with someone who Dave claims is a charlatan, and of course, that sparked my interest, and I knew I had to get Dave on the show, too, so he could state his case properly. Join us as we discuss the heated drama between Dave and the Discovery Institute, science deniers, faith, and the concept of lying. Are you ready? Let’s dive in! Key Takeaways: On exposing misinformation and fraudulent claims (00:32) The notion of lying (12:34) Judging a book by its cover: Is This Wi-Fi Organic? (21:32) On questionable influencers and fear-mongering (24:10) The undermining of the public’s trust in science and COVID-19 (30:04) Uncertainty in the scientific community (39:34) The moral obligations of scientists (46:29) Science communication (51:27) The most impressive invention of the human brain (1:03:59) Check out Dave Farina: 📚 Get Dave’s book: https://amzn.to/3QAb7Rf 🔔 Subscribe to Dave on YouTube: / @professordaveexplains Please join my mailing list 👉 briankeating.com/list for your chance to win a real meteorite 💥! Join me and ⁦Lawrence Krauss for an Onstage Dialogue ⁦at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-onstage-dialogue-brian-keating-lawrence-m-krauss-tickets-699430514497 Support The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast by supporting our sponsors: Post your free listing at LinkedIn Jobs https://www.linkedin.com/impossible Thanks HelloFresh! Go to https://www.hellofresh.com/impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus free shipping! As an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off a MASTERCLASS annual membership masterclass.com/impossible Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're talking about a resurgence in no virus or like the denial of the existence of viruses or no maskers, right,
0:07.9	masks don't do anything. Things that are so blatantly obviously false and yet they only have gotten more traction.
0:16.8	It's profoundly alarming.
0:18.2	It leaves most of us science communicators a little bit not knowing what to do. My approach has been
0:24.7	to become extremely aggressive and target liars target charlatans and
0:28.9	berate them and really expose them as aggressively as possible.
0:33.0	Welcome, today we are joined with a renowned communicator of science, a chemist, I believe, by training, an author and proprietor of one of the biggest science YouTube channels on the planet and that's Professor Dave
0:49.4	A. Dave Farina joining us all the way up north. We said we could have I could have come up there and you could have come down here up in LA
0:56.5	How are you doing today Dave?
0:58.1	Pretty good. How are you doing? I'm doing good. We have a lot of interest in having you on the channel for a long time and I should
1:04.4	suppose since I'm a cosmologist I should explain the origin of story of how this
1:10.8	particular Big Bang came to be and that was about a year ago I published a
1:15.3	pseudo-debunking video as I started to wade my my toes into the field of
1:21.3	debunking not perhaps criminally or negligently produced content as
1:26.2	Dave is so expert at doing in his new book that we'll get to but in the realm of cosmologists purported to be cosmologists seeking to upend and
1:36.5	re completely revoke our understanding of the origin of the universe and that's my area of
1:41.2	expertise that's what I do when I build experiments
1:43.2	to study the cosmicary background with my team.
1:45.1	And this was a man my name, Mr. Eric Lerner,
1:47.8	who also is a proprietor of some fusion company
1:50.7	or something like that.
1:51.7	And he had posted a video, or he had gotten a ton of attention and this is something I want to get into it Dave
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