Dec 14, 2015 05:47 AM
10 persistent cancer myths debunked
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/...-debunked/
EXCERPT: Google ‘cancer’ and you’ll be faced with millions of web pages. And the number of YouTube videos you find if you look up ‘cancer cure’ is similarly vast. The problem is that much of the information out there is at best inaccurate, or at worst dangerously misleading. There are plenty of evidence-based, easy to understand pages about cancer, but there are just as many, if not more, pages spreading myths. And it can be hard to distinguish fact from fiction, as much of the inaccurate information looks and sounds perfectly plausible. But if you scratch the surface and look at the evidence, many continually perpetuated ‘truths’ become unstuck. In this post, we want to set the record straight on 10 cancer myths we regularly encounter. Driven by the evidence, not by rhetoric or anecdote, we describe what the reality of research actually shows to be true.....
How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/how-to-...udoscience
EXCERPT: Last week a new study made headlines worldwide by bluntly demonstrating the human capacity to be misled by “pseudo-profound BS” from the likes of Deepak Chopra, infamous for making profound sounding yet entirely meaningless statements by abusing scientific language. This is all well and good, but how are we supposed to know that we are being misled when we read a quote about quantum theory from someone like Chopra, if we don’t know the first thing about quantum mechanics? In a lecture given by Richard Feynman in 1966, the influential theoretical physicist told a story about the difference between knowing the name for something and truly understanding it...
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/...-debunked/
EXCERPT: Google ‘cancer’ and you’ll be faced with millions of web pages. And the number of YouTube videos you find if you look up ‘cancer cure’ is similarly vast. The problem is that much of the information out there is at best inaccurate, or at worst dangerously misleading. There are plenty of evidence-based, easy to understand pages about cancer, but there are just as many, if not more, pages spreading myths. And it can be hard to distinguish fact from fiction, as much of the inaccurate information looks and sounds perfectly plausible. But if you scratch the surface and look at the evidence, many continually perpetuated ‘truths’ become unstuck. In this post, we want to set the record straight on 10 cancer myths we regularly encounter. Driven by the evidence, not by rhetoric or anecdote, we describe what the reality of research actually shows to be true.....
How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/how-to-...udoscience
EXCERPT: Last week a new study made headlines worldwide by bluntly demonstrating the human capacity to be misled by “pseudo-profound BS” from the likes of Deepak Chopra, infamous for making profound sounding yet entirely meaningless statements by abusing scientific language. This is all well and good, but how are we supposed to know that we are being misled when we read a quote about quantum theory from someone like Chopra, if we don’t know the first thing about quantum mechanics? In a lecture given by Richard Feynman in 1966, the influential theoretical physicist told a story about the difference between knowing the name for something and truly understanding it...