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Melanie Trecek-King: Evaluating Scientific Claims

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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How Do We Know What We Know?

"We spend way too much time focusing on facts and not enough on how do we know these things?" he says. "I learned it i would get invited to go teach a class and in local grade school and you know, kids in grade schools are regurgitators,. They're getting, i mean, no, they're really good hypothesis testers, but they're being taught to regurgitate." He also talks about the difference between scientific literacy and information literacy.

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