Epistemology Seminar: Viviane Fairbank (58勛圖 & Stirling)
Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58勛圖 & Stirling) Should Science Journalists Know About Science? Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researchers unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of both sides: those…