Matt Berkowitz responds to various criticism from his talk "How to Know What's True: Assessing Scientific Research", viewable here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tc0_NulJx0
CONTENTS OF TALK:
0:00 : Intro song (Thy Catafalque - Piroshátú)
2:23 : General response to criticisms of "How to Know..." video.
Interviews:
18:01 : Jim Phillips - communication strategies
27:52 : Philip Blair - science literacy
40:10 : Christopher Gray - science literacy
1:00:31 : Response to specific issues: GMOs and Vaccines
1:22:07 : Outro song (Blut aus Nord - Epitome XXVI)
SOURCES:
On "science denialism":
- Specter, Michael (2009). Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives. Penguin. ISBN 1-59420-230-3. (TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OMLSs8t1ng)
On conspiracy thinking:
- http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/answering-conspiracy-theorists/
GMOs:
- http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/12/12/food-and-chemical-toxicology-editor-in-chief-explains-why-journal-retracted-seralini-study/
- http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/06/24/scientists-react-to-republished-seralini-maize-rat-study/
- http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/food-and-chemical-toxicology-editor-in-chief,-a.-wallace-hayes,-publishes-response-to-letters-to-the-editors
- http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07388551.2013.823595 (Systematic review of 1,783 papers on GMOs)
- http://www.biofortified.org/2014/02/industry-funded-gmo-studies/ ("About those industry funded GMO studies…")
- http://retractionwatch.com/2014/08/14/research-misconduct-accounts-for-a-small-percentage-of-total-funding-study/ (prevalence of scientific fraud)
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919210001302 (GMO conflicts of interest)
Vaccines
- http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/
- http://www.bmj.com/content/330/7500/1154
- http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/autism-and-vaccines-responding-to-poling-and-kirby/
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