The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media. Episode 8, The Media and the Internet
2020
Computer Files, Websites
You’d never believe people who told you they lived off air only, never eating. Yet one “Breatharian” couple received widespread media coverage on the internet, broadcast sites, and in print. Why are we so gullible? Learn how to think like a skeptic when reading news in any medium, remembering that while internet “clickbait” races continue to be faster and faster, real science is slow and steady.
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The Great Courses, 2019.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2019.In English
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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English
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427712
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Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/6119967/external-image - Cover Image