Calling Bullshit 7.6: Science Is Not Bullshit

The subject matter of today’s lecture notwithstanding, science generally works pretty darn well. We can build airplanes and iPhones and save lives with antibiotics and vaccines, after all. Carl looks at five reasons why this is true. May 10, 2017 Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it. The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web. http://callingbullshit.org   / callin_bull   https://fb.com/callinBS bullsht.course@gmail.com Information School https://ischool.uw.edu/ Department of Biology https://www.biology.washington.edu/ Video edited by Bum Mook Oh Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7