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<title type="text">Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience | Robert Wright & Lee McIntyre</title>
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<content type="html"><p>00:11 Lee’s new book, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" 00:011</p><p>06:09 Why scientific theories are never “proved” 06:09</p><p>07:44 Karl Popper’s principle of falsification explained 07:44</p><p>20:00 Why the philosophy of science hasn’t been useful to scientists</p><p>23:42 Why philosophers of science need a new way to talk about evidence</p><p>30:57 Can philosophy of science help refute science deniers?</p><p>40:52 Flat Earthers, science denial, and the scientific attitude</p><p>47:53 Cognitive bias, ideology, and the social sciences</p><p>56:23 Lee: There is no consensus about the epistemological status of science</p><p>01:03:25 The hubris of “naive realism”</p><p>Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Lee McIntyre (Boston University, The Scientific Attitude, leemcintyrebooks.com)</p><p>Lee's new book, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience": http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262039834</p><p>Recorded June 18, 2019</p></content>
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