Subjects for CFB 3333
General Information
- Introduction
- The Scientific Method
- What Constitutes Scientific Evidence?
- Experiment Design
- Recognizing Pseudoscience
- The Thinking Process
- Induction and Deduction
- Observation and Perception
- Assumptions
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Law of Unintended Consequences
Mathematical Issues
- Polls, Opinion sampling.
- Probability
- Statistical Misrepresentation
- Randomness and Coincidence
- Risk and Conceptions about it
Intentional Deceptions: Generic
Social Issues
Health-Related
- AIDS Denial
- Alternative Medicine
- Faith Healing
- Vaccines do not Cause Autism
- Dr. Snow and Cholera; Barry Marshall and Ulcers
- Placebo Effect
Science Denialism
- Flat Earth
- Creationism. Varieties, history, court cases.
- Intelligent Design Creationism
- Vaccines do not Cause Autism
Science and Religion
- Science and Religion
- Creationism. Varieties, history, court cases.
- Intelligent Design Creationism
- Shroud of Turin
- Searching for the Star
- Faith Healing