The Industry of Misinformation with Tim Caulfield

This episode featured a conversation with Tim Caulfield, Canadian sci-comm treasure, prof at the University of Alberta, and author of books like Is Gwenyth Paltrow Wrong about everything? And Relax Damnit, a user's guide to anxiety. A few months ago Tim participated in a “clean” beauty debate - he was anti-clean, against someone else who was pro-clean… I’ve always been wary of these kinds of public debates from the POV of false equivalency. In this episode, Tim and I talked about his experience in the debate, his thoughts on why misinformation gains the traction it does, and tips to decipher fact from fiction.

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