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Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician; a professor of both pediatrics and vaccinology; and he is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine RotoTeq, and is a member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Committee.He has published hundreds of papers in medical and scientific journals, speaks at both professional and public conferences, and is the author of 13 books.His newest book is Tell Me When It’s Over: An Insider’s Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World.
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David Samson, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and Director of the Sleep and Human Evolution Lab. He is the author of “Our Tribal Future: How to channel our foundational human instincts into a force for good”. His research directly addresses the central anthropological question of human uniqueness. In other words, the question he asks is what is it about our species that has made us the most successful animal on the planet? He’s comparatively worked with human and non-human primates around the globe to better understand the behavioral, physiological, and cognitive suite of traits that likely played a crucial role in our advance.© 2024 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission, is prohibited.
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Anthony Magnabosco is from San Antonio, Texas and is a founder and the current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International (SEI). SEI is an educational organization committed to addressing dysfunction in public and private discourse by encouraging rationality through civil conversation. SEI's goal is to provide people with the resources needed to develop, practice, and promote Street Epistemology, an approach that helps people critically reflect on the quality of their reasoning so as to update the confidence they have in their conclusions. © 2024 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.Links:streetepistemology.comnavigatingbeliefs.comlinktr.ee/magnaboscoAnthony's Youtube Channel
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This episode may also be viewed here. Remember when we were young and chocolate was good for us? And red wine too, the more the better? Dr. Christopher Labos is here once again to set the record straight. He talks more about his book - plot and character development; the French Paradox; Mendelian randomization; this year in Cardiology, and more!
A cardiologist with a degree in epidemiology, he spends most of his time doing things for which he does not get paid, like research, teaching, and podcasting. Occasionally, he finds time to practice as a cardiologist so he can pay his rent. He realizes that half of his research findings will be disproved in five years: he just doesn't know which half. He writes for the Montreal Gazette, and makes regular appearances on CBC radio and TV.
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Dr. Wilson is a molecular biologist and science communicator. Dr. Wilson got his Bachelor's degree in molecular biology and biotechnology from Clarion University and his PhD in Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University. After getting his PhD he began working for Eurofins as a process analytical scientist, and is now currently a senior associate scientist at Janssen working on gene therapies. In his spare time he produces and hosts Debunk the Funk, his YouTube channel dedicated to debunking vaccine and COVID-related misinformation. https://www.youtube.com/c/DebunktheFunkwithDrWilson© 2023 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
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Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. The recipient of several teaching awards, he has taught philosophy at Colgate University, Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, Simmons College, and Harvard Extension School. Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, he has also served as a policy advisor to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.He is the author of several books, including How to Talk to A Science Denier; The Scientific Attitude; The Art of Good and Evil; and Post Truth. His latest book is On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy.© 2023 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
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Dr. Young is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content, audience, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over sixty academic articles and book chapters on the content, psychology, and effects of political information,satire, and misinformation. She is a Research Fellow with the University of Delaware's Center for Political Communication and is a recipient of the University’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Young's 2020 TED Talk explaining how our psychology shapes our politics, and how media exploit these relationships, has been viewed almost two million times. She publishes extensively in the popular press with essays and Op-eds in outlets including Vox.com, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic.
She has appeared on CNN, PBS Newshour, ABC News, NPR, andvarious national and international podcasts. Her popular University of Delaware course "Propaganda and Persuasion" was released by Wondrium’s The Great Courses in 2023.
Her book Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the U.S. examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives, and her new book is Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation.
Dr. Young is also an improvisational comedian, performing regularly with the improv comedy troupe, ComedySportz Philadelphia, and she has worked with Flackcheck.org to debunk inaccurate political claims through satire and parody.
She grew up in New Hampshire and graduated from the University of New Hampshirebefore moving to Philadelphia to pursue her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She has been a professor atthe University of Delaware since 2006.© 2023 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
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Writer, folklorist, and research fellow, and paranormal investigator Benjamin Radford discusses a history of Halloween; urban legends including organ theft and bad clowns; investigating ghosts and the paranormal; and more, much more!Benjamin Radford is one of the world’s few science-based paranormal investigators, and has done first-hand research into mysterious phenomena in sixteen countries on four continents. His research work has included psychics; ghosts and haunted houses; exorcisms; miracles; Bigfoot; stigmata; lake monsters; UFO sightings; reincarnation; crop circles; and many other topics. He is perhaps best known for solving the mysteries of the Santa Fe Courthouse Ghost, the Hispanic vampire el Choo-PAH-CAB-RAH, and his book Bad Clowns, the first to fully examine the evil clown phenomenon. He has written thousands of articles on a wide variety of topics, including urban legends, the paranormal, critical thinking, and media literacy and is the author of 13 books including: America the Fearful; Tracking the Choo-Pah-Cab-Rah; Bad Clowns; Scientific Paranormal Investigation; Media Mythmakers; Big if True; The Martians Have Landed - A History of Media Driven Panic, co-authored with Robert Bartholomew; and Investigating Ghosts - The Scientific Search for Spirits.
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Andy Norman has a PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University and is the award-winning author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think. andynorman.orgHis research illuminates the evolutionary origins of human reasoning, the norms that make dialogue fruitful, and the workings of the mind’s immune system. He champions the emerging science of mental immunity as the antidote to disinformation, propaganda, hate, and division. His work has appeared in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Skeptic, Free Inquiry, and The Humanist and he directs the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the founder of CIRCE, the Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative. © 2023 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
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This episode may also be viewed as a video here: 502 Conversations with Dr. Christopher Labos. Dr. Christopher Labos is a cardiologist with a degree in epidemiology, and the author of the new book "Does Coffee Cause Cancer? and Eight More Myths About the Food We Eat" at doescoffeecausecancer.comHe writes for the Montreal Gazette, and makes regular appearances on CBC radio and TV.He is also the co-host of The Body of Evidence podcast, where he and Jonathan Jarry take a skeptical eye at health claims and look at the body of evidence on a variety of health topics.© 2023 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
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Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including How to Talk to A Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason; The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience; The Art of Good and Evil; and Post Truth.Lee McIntyre’s popular essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Nature, Newsweek, Scientific American, and numerous other venues. He has appeared on CNN International; PBS, NPR; the BBC—and has spoken at the United Nations, NASA, and the Vatican, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages. His newest book, soon to be released in August, is On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy.© 2023 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited. Thumbnail photo credit Rick Bern
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Melanie Trecek-King is the creator of ThinkingIsPower.com, an online resource that provides critical thinking education to the general public. She is currently an Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College, where she teaches a general-education science course designed to equip students with critical thinking, information literacy, and science literacy skills. An active speaker and consultant, Melanie loves to share her "teach skills, not facts" approach with other science educators, and help schools and organizations meet their goals through better thinking. She is also the Education Director for the Mental Immunity Project and CIRCE (Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative), which aim to advance and apply the science of mental immunity to inoculate minds against misinformation.
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This episode may be viewed as a video at 502 Conversations. Todd Stiefel is founder and president of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation and he is also president of Heretical Reason Productions and the founder and chair of the ScienceSaves campaign. He is an activist and philanthropist, and has gifted over $8.7 million to charitable causes. When not raising funds and advocating for the principles he is passionate about, Todd executive produces independent movies such as the documentary "Shot in the Arm". © 2023 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
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Dr. Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101.
He is the author of some 44 scholarly articles, 5 academic books, and 15 popular books including the New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things; Why Darwin Matters; The Moral Arc; The Science of Good and Evil; and Giving the Devil His Due. His most recent book is Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.
For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific Americanduring which time he wrote 214 columns, and he now writes a weekly Substack column. Dr. Shermer also regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays, and reviews to: the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications. He has been interviewed in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel, and The Learning Channel. His two TED talks, have been seen by millions, and were voted in the top 100.
He has been called a beacon of reason in an ocean of irrationality by none other than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Follow him on Twitter @michaelshermer.
This is Dr. Shermer's second appearance on 502 Conversations.2:10 Conspiracy: How does this book fit into your previous writing?
3:30 Is it rational to act on mistaken beliefs?
6:30 What are tribal and constructive conspiracism?
12:48 Are conspiracy theories a problem of modernity, or do you find them in hunter gatherer societies?
16:07 Trust vs. distrust
20:00 Who is and who is not susceptible?
23:42 Belief in conspiracy theories as a type of Pascal’s wager
25:22 Sometimes things happen that just seem too unbelievable to not be part of a plan - such as the JFK assassination.
28:41 Anomaly hunting - opening an umbrella?
33:00 Failed government conspiracies
38:00 Shermer’s Conspiracy Principle
39:00 What happens when a conspiracy theory falls apart, or is refuted by evidence; loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy
42:10 Shrodinger's bin Laden: the ability for some to hold two or more opposing C.T.'s such as those that bin laden was already dead when U.S. special forces got to the compound and also think bin laden is still alive. How is that explained?
45:30 How come some things don't become CT's?
48:25 Has there been a shift in C.T's? Conspiracy by assertion, the “I know it's true, lots of people think so” but no evidence attitude.
53:10 How much of the “assertions as proof” concept, or “I just know it to be true”, is the fault of higher education promoting post modernism and other ways of knowing, personal truths, and the claim that there is no objective truth?
56:15 Some good news?
58:20 Is Michael Shermer a conspirator shill being paid to spread disinformation and throw us off track?
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A conversation with Dr. Naomi Oreskes, professor of the History of Science, and author of Why Trust Science, and Merchants of Doubt. This episode may be viewed as a video here.
Dr. Oreskes is a world-renowned earth scientist, historian and public speaker, as well as a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action. She is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science; and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Oreskes is the author or co-author of 10 books, including Why Trust Science?; The Collapse of Western Civilization; Discerning Experts; and of course the best selling book Merchants of Doubt, co-authored with Erik Conway, which has been translated into nine languages and was made into a documentary film of the same name.
She is also author or co-author of over 150 articles, essays and opinion pieces, some of which have appeared in leading newspapers around the globe, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and the Times (of London). Her numerous awards and prizes include the 2019 Geological Society of America Mary C. Rabbitt Award; the British Academy Medal 2019; and the 2016 Stephen Schneider Award for outstanding Climate Science Communication, to name just a few.
She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for her upcoming book with Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, which will be published by Bloomsbury Press in February 2023.
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Dr. Paul Offit reappears on 502 Conversations for a Covid vaccine update, including a discussion of the bivalent booster. He also speaks about the flu 2022; a potential RSV vaccine; tips for budding writers; and more. © 2022 Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited.
Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician, and a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. Dr. Offit is co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine RotoTeq, and is a member of VRPAC, the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Committee. He has published hundreds of papers in medical and scientific journals, and is author of 12 books including Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong; Bad Advice: Why Celebrities, Politicians and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information; Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine;Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes to Far; and his newest book is You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccinations, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation. -
When his daughter was diagnosed with anorexia, Craig Good got an up close look at how important it is to have a healthy relationship with your food. As the author of Relax and Enjoy Your Food, he’s put on his science communicator hat to untangle the myths that keep us anxious and less healthy than we could be. Craig Good spent thirty one years at Pixar (and Lucasfilm before that) where he worked on movises such as Toy Story; A Bug’s Life; Finding Nemo; and Cars; among dozens of others. He is now an Assistant Professor at the California College of the Arts. As someone with wide ranging interests that include food and science, he’s guest hosted and written for the Skeptoid podcast, and has been a guest on the SGU. This episode may be viewed as a video here.
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Dr. Paul Offit discusses his book "Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far". Brian Kerby and Dr. Offit talk about current studies regarding Vitamin D; mammographies; stents; supplements; and more. This episode may be viewed here.
Paul A. Offit, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. The co-inventor of RotoTeq, a rotavirus vaccine, Dr. Offit is credited with saving hundreds of lives worldwide every day, and approximately 60 of those saved are here in the U.S.He is the author of several books including Do You Believe in Magic? Vitamins, Supplements, and all Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain; Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong; several books on vaccines such as The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis; and Deadly Choices: How the Anti-vaccination Movement Threatens Us All; and his newest book is Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes to Far. Thumbnail Credit: Book cover used with permission of the author. -
Dr. Shermer discusses his book "Giving the Devil His Due"; scientific humanism; pseudo-history and holocaust denialism; how listening to those that disagree with you helps you better understand your own position; government limitations on speech; biological sex vs. gender; scientism; and much more. This podcast may be viewed as a video here 502 Conversations with Michael Shermer.
Dr. Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American during which time he wrote 214 columns, and he now writes a weekly Substack column.
He is the author of 44 scholarly articles, 5 academic books, and 14 popular books including the New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things; The Believing Brain; Why Darwin Matters; The Science of Good and Evil; The Moral Arc; Heavens on Earth; and now Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist. Dr. Shermer also regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays, and reviews to: the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications.
He has appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Oprah, and Larry King Live. He has been interviewed in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel, and The Learning Channel. Dr. Shermer was the co-host and co-producer of the Family Channel television series, Exploring the Unknown. His two TED talks have been seen by millions, and were voted in the top 100.
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Joe Uscinski, PhD, is a Political Scientist at the University of Miami. He studies public opinion and mass media, with a focus on conspiracy theories and related misinformation. He received his bachelor's degree from Plymouth State University, his Master's from University of New Hampshire, and his Doctorate from University of Arizona. His research has appeared in Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Critical Review among other scholarly outlets. He has written for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, Politico, VOX, The New York Times and more. He is the author of Conspiracy Theories: A Primer; The Peoples News: Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism; is coauthor of American Conspiracy Theories; and editor of Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them. © 2021 502 Conversations and Dedham TV. Unauthorized duplication, for any reason, without permission is prohibited. This episode is also available as a video here https://youtu.be/-lZvhNQzIMc
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