Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants

An industry-backed researcher who has forged a career sowing doubt about the dangers of pollutants is attempting to use artificial intelligence (AI) to amplify his perspective...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jun/27/tony-cox-epidemiology-risk-assessment-chatgpt-ai

 

Golden Crocoduck nominees 2024

"The Golden Crocoduck is awarded every year for the biggest breach of the 9th Commandment in pursuit of the Creationist cause. Thanks for all the nominations sent in for this year's award. I could not fit them all into one video, so I decided to highlight the following nominees, which includes the winner (to be announced on 28 October 2024.)..."

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/RDMv3KvhctA?si=wmxqehflZ9ceHAFX

Bullsh!t Incorporated: Conspiracists and Cons in a Ridiculous World (with Dave Farina) (Seth Andrews; The Thinking Atheist podcast)

Science communicator Dave Farina weighs in on creationists, germ deniers, flat earthers, the Discovery Institute, and more.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/WIXrJkW149A?si=2STblsLkLaTUmWzU

Bullsh!t Incorporated: Conspiracists and Cons in a Ridiculous World (with Dave Farina)

Science communicator Dave Farina weighs in on creationists, germ deniers, flat earthers, the Discovery Institute, and more.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/WIXrJkW149A?si=CTTljqVK8480rln6

Andy Slavitt and Laurie Garrett Discuss Disturbing New Covid Realties (Al Franken podcast)

Turns out this is harder than we thought.

Interview: 

https://alfranken.com/listen/andy-slavitt-and-laurie-garrett-discuss-disturbing-new-covid-realties

Ark Protest 2019 (feat. Aron Ra & Eric Murphy) #kensplaining - (Ken) Ham & AiG News (Paulogia podcast)

Ken Ham and his team have a bi-weekly "news" show, reacting to the news stories of the day from a Christian young-earth creation perspective from the Answers in Genesis staff at his Creation Museum.

Aron Ra, Eric Murphy took a break from the 2019 Ark Encounter protest to join Ken, Avery and Bodie as they discuss - Mayflies detected on radar; Florist punished by Washington named Best for 2019; Pastor expelled over marriage; Bishop declares God is female; NASA to search for life's beginnings and more during today's episode of Answers News, broadcast live from the Creation Museum.
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/oz1bfL1RDGc

A neuroscientist explains how religious fundamentalism hijacks the brain - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

… We also know that in the United States, Christian fundamentalism is linked to science denial. Since science is nothing more than a method of determining truth using empirical measurement and hypothesis testing, denial of science equates to the denial of objective truth and tangible evidence. In other words, the denial of reality. Not only does fundamentalism promote delusional thinking, it also discourages followers from exposing themselves to any different ideas, which acts to protect the delusions that are essential to the ideology…

https://www.rawstory.com/religious-fundamentalism/

Science Denial – Why It Happens and What to Do About It (Point of Inquiry podcast)

Throughout the modern world trust in science has continued to erode at dangerous speeds. From anti-vaxxers to climate change deniers, there is an ever growing movement of people that deny science at the peril of us all.

The shift towards a public with increasing lack of scientific literacy and critical-thinking skills combined with the proliferation of online misinformation and disinformation and social media algorithms that reinforce ingrained worldviews has caused a situation that is out of control.

On this episode of Point of Inquiry we speak with Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer on their new book, Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It. Sinatra and Hofer speak about their decades of research and work on science, scientific literacy, and how humans think and acquire knowledge, how “doing your own research” is explicitly not simply conducting a Google search. They also go into some of the psychological explanations for why people deny science and what everyone can do to help stem the tide.
Interview: 

https://pointofinquiry.org/2021/09/science-denial-why-it-happens-and-what-to-do-about-it/

What The Future Holds For Water In The West (On Point podcast)

For the first time ever, the federal government has declared a water shortage on the Colorado River.

Across the Western United States, reservoirs are low, temperatures are high and fires continue to rage. How did we get here?

Historian John Ross points to climate change denial.
Interview: 

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/08/25/what-the-future-hold-for-water-in-the-west

Covid pandemic was preventable, says WHO-commissioned report

…Some countries "devalued and debunked" the science, denying the severity of the disease. "This has had deadly consequences," said Clark. "This has been compounded by a lack of global leadership and coordination of geopolitical tensions and nationalism weakening the multilateral system, which should act to keep the world safe."…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/12/covid-pandemic-was-preventable-says-who-commissioned-report

Knock on Lin Wood (feat. Adam Klasfeld)(AG and Andrew Torez, Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode 12)

This week: are the floodgates of Gaetz-gate opening; is Justice Thomas serious; is Lin Wood well; plus we say goodbye to a bunch of anti-science science advisors at the EPA. Follow our guest on Twitter: Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) Senior Investigative Reporter & Editor, @LawCrimeNews Host, Objections: With Adam Klasfeld

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-m9sgx-dbb9b12

Donald Prothero - "Weird Earth" (The Phil Ferguson Show podcast #357)

Interview with Donald R. Prothero. He has written more than 30 book and we discuss his newest "Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet" . He also has books on geology, science deniers, Paleobiology, evolution, UFOs, Dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals and other topics.
Interview:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/8084919/357-RpNy3q

Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic

Fringe climate science deniers who spread online disinformation are now downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/climate-science-deniers-downplaying-coronavirus-pandemic

The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals - NYTime

Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/coronavirus-trump-evangelicals.html

Trump haunted by his evangelical supporters’ science denial as he confronts the coronavirus crisis: columnist – Raw Story

It’s well known that Donald Trump’s surge to the presidency was greatly aided by his evangelical supporters. Now, according to the New York Times’ Katherine Stewart, “we are all reaping what that movement has sown” as the coronavirus health crisis continues to spiral. The “denial of science and critical thinking among religious ultraconservatives now haunts the American response to the coronavirus crisis,” Stewart writes, citing examples of Christian pastors who insisting on keeping their church doors open as lockdown orders grip the country. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-haunted-by-his-evangelical-supporters-science-denial-as-he-confronts-the-coronavirus-crisis-columnist/

Covid Deniers: How shadowy social media groups are spreading myths and conspiracy about coronavirus

Conspiracies and fake news about Covid-19 are spreading across millions of users’ timelines ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-deniers-shadowy-social-media-groups-spreading-myths-conspiracy1/

State lawmakers across the U.S. wage war on science instruction - CBS News

With the impact of warming temperatures and rising sea levels looming large on communities around the globe, it's more important than ever to ensure that students are knowledgeable about climate change and the science behind it. But state representatives around the country are introducing bills that would undermine educators' abilities to do that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-lawmakers-wage-war-on-science-instruction-cbsn-originals/

The Trump Administration Is Enshrining Its Anti-Science Policy in the Midst of an Epidemic – Mother Jones

As more states learned they have rising numbers of confirmed cases of coronavirus Tuesday evening—now 16 states report at least 135 cases—the EPA made an important announcement: The agency is moving closer to finalizing a policy for restricting what health studies it can consider for any of the EPA’s scientific work. That would mean the agency would be forced only to consider studies that can publish their raw data, which in effect means ignoring entire fields of epidemiology research that relies on private, anonymized medical data to study the impacts of pollution.....
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/03/the-trump-administration-is-enshrining-its-anti-science-policy-in-the-midst-of-an-epidemic/

In Super Tuesday ‘news dump,’ EPA expands rule limiting science the agency can use to make public health policy decisions – Raw Story

As most political observers were watching the election results in the Democratic primary from 14 states come in Tuesday evening, the EPA quietly published a proposed change to a rule the Union of Concerned Scientists has called “nonsensical and dangerous”—expanding the agency’s so-called “secret science” rule to further limit the scientific evidence the EPA will consider in its work. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/in-super-tuesday-news-dump-epa-expands-rule-limiting-science-the-agency-can-use-to-make-public-health-policy-decisions/

PragerU Lies About Climate Change

https://youtu.be/4i6CBQPbbeA