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Combating fake science in popular media – six months later

Posted on September 28, 2015October 6, 2015 By Andrew Thaler
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As noted earlier, David and my paper on twitter, social media, Shark Week, and fake documentaries came out last week. Since scientific publishing has a “long tail” — the time between when we actually wrote the paper and when it was published, in this case, was almost 9 months — we thought it might be a useful exercise to discuss our paper in the context of the months leading up to and following the most recent Shark Week. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vK2Vo4-r_M

You can find the original paper here: Fish tales: Combating fake science in popular media.

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