List of Valuable And Interesting Science-Related Information (SteemSTEM)
This is a compilation of some of science related materials I have collected within last few years. It touches different fields of science. The second section also contains a lot of pseudoscience criticism.
I have not included the links to YouTube videos, because it would mess up the post. Just google this titles up in YouTube or go directly to Google Document to see the links.
This document is also attached to SteemSTEM chat channel.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD, LOGICAL REASONING:
YouTube Videos:
The Scientific Method Made Easy
Science Literacy | 1.0 Science Literacy Matters
Science Literacy | 2.1 Scientific Consensus - How It Forms
Open-mindedness
What Science Is and Is Not
Can We Trust Scientists?
Why Don't Scientists Fear Hell?
Lecture 1: Science Based Medicine vs.Evidence Based Medicine
Critical Thinking Fallacy: Formal and Informal Fallacies
Falsifiability. A self-refuting theory?
Karl Popper and Falsification
Articles:
Who Will Debunk The Debunkers?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-will-debunk-the-debunkers/
The Six Most Misused Words in Science, According to Scientists
http://futurism.com/the-six-most-misused-words-in-science/
How to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper: A Step-by-Step Guide for Non-Scientists
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-raff/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper_b_5501628.html
Is Science an Ideology?
https://philosophynow.org/issues/15/Is_Science_an_Ideology
Is Science or Naturalism an Ideology?
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/is_science_or_naturalism_an_ideology/
THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, GENETICS, NEUROSCIENCE, EPIGENETICS:
YouTube Videos:
Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology - Series of lectures from Stanford University
Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
Alfie Kohn - Education and Competition
PBS Nova - Ghost in your Genes
Brain Development & Addiction with Gabor Mate
Dr. Gabor Maté: Consequences of Stressed Parenting
Gabor Mate Lecture - "Hold On To Your Kids"
TED - The fiction of memory | Elizabeth Loftus
TED-ED - What is depression? - Helen M. Farrell
TED - How to spot a liar | Pamela Meyer
Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?
Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity
Why Religion causes brain damage
Articles:
The First Year - Baby Brains
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/baby-brains/bhattacharjee-text
Top Ten Myths About the Brain
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-myths-about-the-brain-178357288/?utm_campaign=buffer&no-ist=&utm_content=buffer5eb59&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&page=3
Genetic predisposition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_predisposition
Strange but True: Testosterone Alone Does Not Cause Violence
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-testosterone-alone-doesnt-cause-violence/
Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/religious-experiences-shrink-part-of-brain/
Excessive Attention Seeking and Drama Addiction
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/obesely-speaking/201411/excessive-attention-seeking-and-drama-addiction
Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research
http://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers
AUTOMATION, ROBOTIZATION:
YouTube Videos:
Humans Need Not Apply
Will Work For Free
TEDx - Robots Will Steal Your Job, but That's OK: Federico Pistono
Discovery Documentary Future Transportation Technology
Billions in Change Official Film
POPULATION GROWTH
YouTube Videos:
Don't Panic: the Truth About Population
TED - The best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL SYSTEMS
YouTube Videos:
Basic Income
Introduction to a Resource Based Economy
The Choice is Ours
BIAS IN SCIENCE:
Articles:
Study: Elite scientists can hold back science
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2015/12/15/10219330/elite-scientists-hold-back-progress
CONSPIRACY THEORIES:
YouTube Videos:
The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker
Articles:
10 Reasons Why Hidden Cancer Cure Conspiracy Theories Fail
https://hatepseudoscience.com/2015/07/02/10-snags-in-the-hidden-cancer-cure-conspiracy-theory/
Features of Denialism
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/features-of-denialism/
Fluoridation of water
http://skepdic.com/fluoridation
MEDICINE, THERAPY, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:
Articles:
The Great “Detox” Deception
http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/student-voices/the_great_8220detox8221_deception
Does medical marijuana work? The answer is (mostly) “no” and “we don’t know”
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/06/24/does-medical-marijuana-work-the-answer-is-mostly-no-and-we-dont-know/
Alternative Cancer Cures: “Unproven” or “Disproven”?
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/canjclin.54.2.110/full
Puncturing the Acupuncture Myth
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/puncturing-the-acupuncture-myth/
Can Acupuncture Treat Depression?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-acupuncture-treat-depression/
Whole Body Cryotherapy
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/whole-body-cryotherapy/
CREATIONISM:
YouTube Videos:
Putting faith in its place
How Evolution Works
Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins Talks about Science and Religion
My Spirituality as an Atheist
Articles:
Top 10 Myths about Evolution
https://proud-a.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/Evolution.html
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/
Atheism is Not a Religion, Ideology, Belief System, Philosophy
http://atheism.about.com/od/atheismreligionideology/
DUBIOUS SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:
List of Standalone Journals - Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals:
https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
List of Publishers - Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers:
https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
ANTI-VACCINATION:
YouTube Videos:
The "Science" of Anti-Vaccination:
Articles:
"The Vaccine-Autism Connection: A Public Health Crisis Caused by Unethical Medical Practices and Fraudulent Science"
http://aop.sagepub.com/content/45/10/1302
"Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies".
https://autismoevaccini.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/vaccines-are-not-associated-with-autism.pdf
"Does antigenic overload exist? The role of multiple immunizations in infants." 2003
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14753385
"Vaccine Safety Controversies and the Future of Vaccination Programs" 2005
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7485362_Vaccine_Safety_Controversies_and_the_Future_of_Vaccination_Programs
"Adverse events following immunization: perception and evidence" 2007
http://lib.ajaums.ac.ir/booklist/955899.pdf
"Vaccination Safety Update" 2008
"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680557/"
"How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed" 2011
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full
"Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent" 2011
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452.full
"A case of junk science, conflict and hype" 2014
http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v9/n12/full/ni1208-1317.html
"MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism" The Sunday Times 2009
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/news/article148992.ece
"Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper
Other criticism:
MMR and Autism Rises from the Dead
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/mmr-and-autism-rises-from-the-dead/
"Anti-vaccination"
http://www.skeptics.com.au/tag/anti-vaccination/
Anti-vaccination Movement (AVM)
http://skepdic.com/antivaccination.html
I hope that you have found the list interesting and helpful.
Please, feel welcome to use it in fighting pseudoscience, science deniers and science confusionists.
-logic
What a good collection of articles, thanks! I'm sure these will come in handy in the future :)
Thank you. You're welcome :-)
Excellent stuff!
Cheers (-:
That's about a year of reading for me right there! That too on one of my favourite topics, science!.
Fantastic collection and thanks for sharing.
Hey Norbu,
Yeah it's a bit of watching and reading. Enjoy it :-)
Thank you for these substantial clustering of relevant links :-)))
You are welcome ajaub :-)
Now that's what I call a list! There is a lot to got through. Thanks for sharing:)
Hey, no problem. You are welcome ;-)
Good list. It would be better if the youtube videos are linked like the rest of the list.
Thanks,
"It would be better if the youtube videos are linked like the rest of the list."
Please read the content of the post carefully. It is explained where the links are and why they are not there ;-)