Get Smart!

Mainstream media coverage is often sensationalised and biased. The Internet gives us unprecedented abilities to dig deeper, but only if we take that opportunity. We'll show you how ...

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Web sites we mentioned:

• The Onion: Actual Expert Too Boring For TV
• When Journalists do Primary Research (Ben Goldacre)
• Wikipedia
• Google Scholar
• Scirus
• CiteSeerX (IT and technology)
• PubMed (Health & Medicine)
• The fake academic journal set up by Merck
• The Union of Concerned Scientists
• The Cochrane Collaboration (Medical Meta Studies)
• Subscribe to blogs: New Scientist, Scientific American, The Conversation
• Listen to podcasts (find them in iTunes): Skeptoid, SciAm (60 Second Science & Weekly podcast), IEEE Spectrum Radio, ABC RN Science Show, Radiolab
  
• Follow Tweeple: Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh, Brian Dunning, Dr Karl, Tim Minchin