CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Malaysia Airlines, Bicep And Keck Array, Scientific Method

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

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How to survive the age of bad information - joel achenbach. Facts, fiction, and science: where the lines become blurred - trevor butterworth. Group 2a also contains hot tea (cancer of the esophagus) Acrylamide is also group 2a (baked wheat) There"s a big difference between hazard and risk (harder to analyze risk) Big problem with missing data in clinical trials. Didn"t talk about wright brothers for a year. Thales fell into a well while looking at the stars. Richard feynman and robert oppenheimer - atomic bond. Sputnik appeared on page 3 in a small story. Public"s lack of knowledge about science (only 38% of people thought the moon was much smaller than the earth) Evil scientists in movies (theme was that science was being pushed too far) Dr. cagliari, dr mabuse - fear of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, mind control. Dr. frankenstein, dr. jekyll, dr. moreau - fear of biology, fooling with nature.