Pseudoscience

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Pseudoscience

http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/anti-fluoride-campaigners-bamboozle-pseudoscience/5/135850
this is a story of people using pseudoscience to manipulate city governments into removing fluoride from the city water supplies. they use exaggeration of unimportant data, and downplaying of important fact. their results fail to account for variability of measures and have untestable results.

2 comments:

AnonymousOctober 20, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Hi Carl, my question is why is fluoridated water supplies effective in preventing tooth decay?
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AnonymousOctober 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM
What proof did the psuedosience guy have to say floride didnt prevent tooth decay
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For this assignment, you will need to find a media file online that is related to a topic from the current term in Honors Biology. You will upload these files here and write a text description of the file and its relevance to the curriculum as part of your post. Be sure to include the full URL for the website, author's name and date of the publication if available. Your piece of media must relate to something from the current term and must have been published within the last calendar year.

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