{"id":44716,"date":"2012-02-02T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44716"},"modified":"2012-02-02T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:44:19","slug":"critically-examining-scientific-findings-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/02\/critically-examining-scientific-findings-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically Examining Scientific Findings in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ted.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44717\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ted-500x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ted-500x271.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ted.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dmitriy T.M. sent in a TED talk in which Ben Goldacre discusses the problems with many of the scientific findings we hear about in the media, highlighting the importance of scientific literacy and critical consumption of science reporting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"314\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h4MhbkWJzKk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re on the topic of potentially misleading statistics, Dolores R. and Sarah E. sent in an image posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/12\/14\/the-best-set-of-infographics-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">boing boing<\/a> as one of &#8220;the best set of infographics ever,&#8221; helpfully illustrating the difference between correlation and causation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/conspiracyofavas.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44718\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/conspiracyofavas-500x378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/conspiracyofavas-500x378.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/conspiracyofavas.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy T.M. sent in a TED talk in which Ben Goldacre discusses the problems with many of the scientific findings we hear about in the media, highlighting the importance of scientific literacy and critical consumption of science reporting: And while we&#8217;re on the topic of potentially misleading statistics, Dolores R. and Sarah E. sent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,129,274,290],"class_list":["post-44716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-healthmedicine","tag-media","tag-methodsuse-of-data","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44795,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44716\/revisions\/44795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}