Dr. Barry Dworkin

Sunday House Call, #539, July 12, 2015: The University of Quackademia

Sunday House Call, #539,  July 12, 2015: The University of Quackademia

Topics today include:The University of Toronto Scarborough enters the quackademia arena, an antivaxer argues for autrism link with vaccines and ignores evidence, a classic illustration of confirmation bias, backfire effect, cherry-picking of studies, and causation fallacy, the causes of coronary artery disease and the effects of sleep deprivation on health.

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