This is the age of the pandemic. And that is truly terrifying. But it is also the age of the 鈥渋nfodemic,鈥� and that too has some chilling features. We are relentlessly bombarded by a tsunami of...
Symposium Schedule
Tuesday聽| October 22
Roundtable Session: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Moderated by Joe Schwarcz PhD, Director, 黑料不打烊 Office for Science and Society
Participants:
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When John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost that the mind can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven, without realizing it, he was talking about the 鈥減lacebo鈥� and the 鈥渘ocebo鈥� effect. 鈥淧lacebo鈥�...
In the Information Age, how can you discern legitimate science from cherry-picked data, opinion posing as fact, association confused with cause and effect, bogus advice from self-appointed experts,...
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