Lies, damned lies and statistics - how we get science coverage wrong
Science and medicine have transformed our lives immeasurably, and never in history have they been more central to our lives and well-being. Yet despite this, there is often a glaring disconnect between the findings of actual science and media reporting of such topics, and consequently there is often a needless chasm between public perception and the evidence on many contentious topics. This can lead to needlessly adversarial and counter-productive discourse of everything from vaccination to climate-change. In this talk, physicist and science journalist Dr. David Robert Grimes discusses the frequent problems in reporting science from misunderstandings to bad statistics to false balance, and discusses the factors that influence this and how such problems can be remedied.
Date:
20 April 2016, 19:00
Venue:
St Aldates Tavern, The Blue Room
Speaker:
Dr David Robert Grimes (University of Oxford)
Organiser:
Cheryl Chan (Oxford SciBar)
Organiser contact email address:
oxfordscibar@hotmail.co.uk
Part of:
Scibar
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Cheryl Chan
