Episode 19: Who Do You Trust? Part 2: How Skepticism Should Lead You to "Trust the Science"

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In this episode, April explains what skepticism is (and what it is NOT). She also discusses its importance in the scientific method, and shows how it can help you "trust the science." She also confesses that she is one of those annoying people who looks up stuff on Google to prove their spouses wrong.

Episode 19 Show Notes:

Richard Popkin's Britannica article on skepticism:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/skepticism

A great discussion explaining why scientists must also be skeptics:
http://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/introduction/scientific-inquiry/why-must-scientists-be-skeptics.php

An excellent discussion of skepticism by Skeptoid podcast host Brian Dunning (and btw if you're not already listening to Skeptoid, you should!):
https://skeptoid.com/skeptic.php

A short history of skepticism from the Stanford University website:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/

How do researchers conduct literature reviews to find out what is known (and unknown) about a topic? Here, read this:
https://impact.griffith.edu.au/known_and_unknown/

Here's the blog of one of those really good science writer/journalists explaining skepticism and science:
https://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-skeptic/

These are the science websites I mentioned in the episode:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
https://www.aaas.org/

The top scientists on Twitter:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/09/top-50-science-stars-twitter

A couple of good articles I didn't reference in the podcast but are definitely relevant to the topic:
https://orbitermag.com/how-to-be-a-true-skeptic/
https://fishthinkers.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/5-free-ways-around-the-great-paywall-of-academia/