Dave Farina

Is This Wi-Fi Organic? (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online (Science Myths Debunked)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How to Separate Real Scientific Truths from Fake News

Scientific literacy is our best defense in an age of increasing disinformation. ―Kellie Gerardi, Aerospace Professional and Author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science

#1 New Release in Safety & First Aid, Education, Essays & Commentary, Scientific Research, and Ethics

We live in the internet age, where scams, frauds, fake-news, fake stories, fake science, and false narratives are everywhere. With the knowledge base gained from Dave Farina's simple explanations, learn to spot misinformation and lies on the internet before they spot you.

Is This Wi-Fi Organic? is a playful investigation of popular opinions and consumer trends that permeate our society. The organic craze has taken hold of grocery culture despite most being unable to define the term. Healers and quantum mystics of every flavor are securing their foothold alongside science-based medicine, in an unregulated and largely unchallenged landscape of unsubstantiated claims. Anti-science mentality is growing. Misleading popular opinions are used to sell you products and services that range from ineffectual to downright dangerous.

Learn how to separate fact from fiction. Dave Farina, author and science communicator from the YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains offers easy-to-read lessons on basic scientific principles everyone should understand, and then uses them to expose threads of confusion among the public.

Learn:

• The real science behind semi-controversial health issues like drugs and vaccines
• What energy actually is, and how we use it each and every day
• A core of scientific knowledge that empowers you to spot misinformation, fake-news, fake science, and increase your critical thinking skills

Readers captivated by the scientific and critical thinking teachings in science books like Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking, The Demon-Haunted World, or Calling Bullshit, will love Is This Wi-Fi Organic?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mango Media
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781642504163
• Artikelnr.: 61126579

Autorenporträt

Dave Farina has a BA in chemistry from Carleton College and an MA in science education from California State University, Northridge. After years of teaching chemistry in the classroom, he turned his attention to science communication in 2015, focusing primarily on his YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains.

Dave's channel serves as a database of nearly a thousand tutorials in a wide variety of scientific fields. These educational videos have just enough detail to help struggling high school and undergraduate students and are visually engaging and general enough for any viewer who just wants to learn a few things.

Although Dave is passionate about helping students all over the world reach their academic and career goals, he is even more passionate about bestowing the public with basic science literacy. Anti-science sentiment has been growing in recent years, and it has demonstrated itself to be harmful to society. Dave is devoted to diagnosing and disarming common anti-science narratives and exposing pseudoscience wherever it crops up.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How Does the Public Perceive Science? Part 1: Chemistry
Chapter 1: What Are All These Lines and Hexagons? Chapter 2: Dispelling
Vitalism Chapter 3: Natural vs. Synthetic: Tackling Chemophobia Part 2:
Biochemistry Chapter 4: The Molecules of Life Chapter 5: The Molecular
Basis of Wellness Chapter 6: The Rise of the Alt-Health Industry Part 3:
Biology Chapter 7: The Body as Machine Chapter 8: Recognizing Science-Based
Medicine Chapter 9: Biotechnology and the Future of the Species Part 4:
Physics Chapter 10: Energy Defined Chapter 11: An Equation For This and an
Equation For That Chapter 12: To Debunk is Divine Epilogue: Science and
Industry in an Educated World Appendix Index