Trolling With Logic

Uploaded on 11 Apr 2016 We talk about the facts and myths behind viruses and helath scares with the always awesome c0nc0rdance.  c0nc0rdance on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/C0nc0rdance c0nc0rdance on Twitter: https://twitter.com/c0nc0rdance From RationalWiki C0nc0rdance is a vlogger with (as of February 2016) over 45,000 subscribers and 6.3 million views. He came to YouTube with the goal of "show[ing] through the use of solid evidence and rational argument what is junk science, and what is real." In so doing,  C0nc0rdance made dozens of videos examining: Medical evidence of various pseudosciences and quack medicine (such as acupuncture and homeopathy). Alternative medicine, such as if medical marijuana is effective. AIDS and HIV denialism Vaccine hysteria Sweeteners Finally, he also examines several myths involving technology and health, such as whether cellphones cause ear cancer. Due to his high knowledge of health and biology, C0nc0rdance became a strong defender of the theory of evolution against religious dogma and a strong critic against intelligent design. He targeted online creationists (such as VenomFangX and NephilimFree) and even confronted the Discovery Institute (particularly Casey Luskin). He came under a lot of fire for his (age-restricted) video alleging that marijuana was dangerous, even getting a death threat he called "disturbingly specific." C0nc0rdance is also very critical of faith-based medicine and prayer. He made several videos providing he data and reports of young children who died because their parents failed or refused to give them proper medical treatment, and rather resorted to prayer, exorcisms, and faith-healing. C0nc0rdance is also a frequent co-host on the online Magic Sandwich Show. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/C0nc0rdance Like the show? Support us on patreon :- http://www.patreon.com/trollingwithlogic TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/ TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3 TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogic TWL facebook page : http://on.fb.me/1Eq3b8k Subscribe to the podcast:- Feedburner: http://tinyurl.com/twl-feed-burn Itunes : http://tinyurl.com/twl-itunes Stitcher : http://tinyurl.com/twl-stitcher  Podbean : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podbean Podfeed : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podfeed

Like the show? Support us on patreon :- http://www.patreon.com/trollingwithlogic Our guest is CS Prakash Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash is Dean, College of Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee University. He has served at Tuskegee University since 1989. Globally renowned for his advocacy and outreach on agriculture and science issues, his current research interest is on genomics of crop plants. His group has earlier studied transgenic plants, gene expression, tissue culture and plant genomics and also led the development and biosafety testing of transgenic sweetpotato plants, establishment of biosafety guidelines in Ghana (with Dr. Egnin), first to identify genomic variation among cultivated peanut, and development of genetic map of cultivated peanut (with Dr Guohao He). His papers, especially on peanut genetic markers, are among the most cited from Tuskegee University. His annual workshop on crop genomics at TU, conducted along with Dr. Jackson, targets high school students and teachers. Dr. Prakash has a bachelor's degree in agriculture and masters in genetics from India and Ph.D. in forestry/genetics from the Australian National University, Canberra. Dr. Prakash recently received the prestigious Borlaug CAST Communication Award from the Council on Agricultural Science and Technology for his lifetime contribution to agricultural science communication.  Dr. Prakash has played a key role in enhancing the societal awareness of food biotechnology issues around the world and instrumental in catalyzing the scientific community in many countries to be more proactive in the biotechnology debate. A popular speaker, he has delivered more than 500 scientific and public lectures in 70 countries, including locales such as UN, US Congress, FAO, Alexandria Library, Aspen Ideas Festival, World Food Prize and the Vatican (where he recently met the Pope Francis). As a result of his social media efforts, Huffington Post recognized him recently as ‘among the Top 30 social influencers in biopharma and biotech’. Dr. Prakash’s contribution to ag biotech outreach has been recognized time and again, including by the magazine Progressive Farmer who conferred him ‘Man of the Year’ award for service to Alabama Agriculture. He was named one of a dozen ‘Pioneers, Visionaries and Innovators behind the progress and promise of plant biotechnology’ by the Council for Biotechnology Information; and chosen as one of the "100 Top Living Contributors to Biotechnology" (2005) . He has received Faculty Performance Award at Tuskegee University (1994), a commemorative award from U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and recognized by the President of Zambia (2010). He has also received the Morrison-Evans Outstanding Scientist Award, presented by the Association of 1890 Research Directors, as well as the Kalpavriksha Award in Mysore, India. TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/ TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3 TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogic TWL facebook page : http://on.fb.me/1Eq3b8k Subscribe to the podcast:- Feedburner: http://tinyurl.com/twl-feed-burn Itunes         : http://tinyurl.com/twl-itunes Stitcher       : http://tinyurl.com/twl-stitcher  Podbean     : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podbean Podfeed      : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podfeed

Like the show? Support us on patreon :- http://www.patreon.com/trollingwithlogic As part of our  #GMMarch   season we take a look the agriculture corporation Monsanto with special guest Vance Crowe, Director of Millennial Engagement. How do you engage the public and communicate effectively about a company like Monsanto?  Vance is a former Communications Strategist for the World Bank Group, a returned U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer stationed in Kenya, a former communications coordinator at a National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate in Northern California and was a deckhand on an eco-tourism ship that traveled in the Western Hemisphere. Vance holds an undergraduate degree in communications from Marquette University and a Master's Degree in Cross-Cultural Negotiations from the Seton Hall School of Diplomacy. http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/page... https://twitter.com/vancecrowe Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Greater St. Louis, Missouri. It is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide. Monsanto's role in agricultural changes, biotechnology products, lobbying of government agencies, and history as a chemical company have made the company controversial. TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/ TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3 TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogic TWL facebook page : http://on.fb.me/1Eq3b8k Subscribe to the podcast:- Feedburner: http://tinyurl.com/twl-feed-burn Itunes         : http://tinyurl.com/twl-itunes Stitcher       : http://tinyurl.com/twl-stitcher  Podbean     : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podbean Podfeed      : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podfeed

In this re-scheduled show we speak to Rauli Partanen  co-author of the book "Climate Gamble". The climate gamble addresses the question of weather we are ignoring the one possible solution to out gorwing energy needs - Nuclear Power.buy the book here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Climate-Gamble-Anti-Nuclear-Activism-Endangering-ebook/dp/B013WGG8AO”Climate Gamble – Is Anti-Nuclear Activism Endangering Our Future?” is a thought-provoking, short and easy to read book on one of the biggest problems of our time, climate change, and one of its most misunderstood and misrepresented solution, nuclear power."Rauli Partanen (BBA) is an author, an entrepreneur and a father of three. His first book Suomi öljyn jälkeen (with Harri Paloheimo and Heikki Waris) got shortlisted for both of Finlands large national non-fiction book awards. Its adapted translation The World After Cheap Oil was published by Routledge in late 2014, with a German translation (self-published) Die Welt nach dem billigen Öl following in early 2015. Rauli also writes articles on different papers and magazines and gives frequent lectures, presentations and interviews on the subjects of his expertise (energy in general and as a enabler of economic activity and well-being and environmental problems such as climate change, oil and nuclear energy especially, resource scarcity and so forth).Subscribe to the podcast:-Feedburner: http://tinyurl.com/twl-feed-burnItunes :         http://tinyurl.com/twl-itunesStitcher :      http://tinyurl.com/twl-stitcherPodbean :    http://tinyurl.com/twl-podbeanPodfeed :     http://tinyurl.com/twl-podfeed 

James and Myles from the League of Nerds join us as we watch the AIDs denialist "documentary" House of NumbersThe League of Nerds (TLoN for short) came into existence around october 2013 when long time Youtubers Myles Power (powerm1985) and James Gurney (jimtheevo) decided to set up their own podcast.Check out LoN:https://www.youtube.com/user/LeagueOf... Myles and James The League of NerdsAbout Myles.For those of you who are just tuning in, my name is Myles Power and I run the educational YouTube channel powerm1985. I am originally from a small town in the North East of England called Middlesbrough, but have spend a large potion of my adult life living in Manchester. I am a chemist who is is currently working in industry, but what little free time I have I spend sharing my love of SCIENCE! through home experiments, visiting sites of scientific interest and angry rants at pseudoscience opponents. I studied chemistry specialising in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester and Toronto. Later in my career, I moved more towards bio-chemistry and worked on projects including the synthesising various nucleic acid analogues for non-enzymatic transcription and controlling gene expression using a mutant riboswitch. I have over 7 years of experience working in a research lab, which has given me the skills I need to research and debunk virus psuedoscience theories. Some of the theories I have discussed on my YouTube channel including AIDS denialists, 911 truthers, the anti-vaccination movement and homeopathy to name a few.https://www.youtube.com/user/powerm1985About James.James is a microbiologist who specialises in evolutionary microbiology. He knows very little about anything else. Currently he is about to start a postdoc on bacterial co-evolution with Phage for therapeutic reasons in France. He has been doing stuff online since about 2008. His biggest annoyance is Antivaxers.https://www.youtube.com/user/JimtheEvoTWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogicTWL facebook page : http://on.fb.me/1Eq3b8kSubscribe to the podcast:-Feedburner: http://tinyurl.com/twl-feed-burnItunes         : http://tinyurl.com/twl-itunesStitcher       : http://tinyurl.com/twl-stitcher Podbean     : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podbeanPodfeed      : http://tinyurl.com/twl-podfeed

Or guests couldn't make it, so we had an open forum / ramble.

New show for the new year! We speaks to Youtube content creator ColdHardLogic about bizarre conspiracy theories from Flat Earth and Geocentrism to everyone's favourite clickbait pseudoscience website, Spirit "Science".CHL began making videos in 2012 after encountering another Youtuber who was determined that the Earth was the center of the universe, inspiring him to make a series called "Testing Geocentrism", in which he uses the ridiculous notion of Geocentrism as a comedic backdrop to explore the history and science of astrophysics.His other series include:Testing Homeopathy - in which he explores where this pseudoscientific idea came from and how viable it is (spoiler alert: It isn't. At all);Testing Spirit Science - in which he explores some of the more outlandish claims made by Jordan and his gang (warning: be sure to have your face protecting oven gloves at the ready);World of Batshit - which looks at various different crazy ideas from flat Earth, space denialism (yes, that really is a thing), moon hologram, and planes actually being flying demons.His "Testing Geocentrism" series got so up the nose of Robert Sungenis, who wrote "Galileo was wrong" and made the pseudoscience propaganda-fest "The Principle", that he felt compelled to write a "rebuttal" to part of his series (you can guess how successful that wasn't).https://www.youtube.com/user/CoolHardLogic

In a change to our schedule, Dr Paul Offit will be our guest to discuss Vaccine myth and fact as well as the prevalence of the Anti-Vax movement.Paul A. Offit, MD is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of many awards including the J. Edmund Bradley Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics from the University of Maryland Medical School, the Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development from the Infectious Disease Society of America, and a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.Dr. Offit has published more than 150 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety. He is also the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC; for this achievement Dr. Offit received the Luigi Mastroianni and William Osler Awards from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Charles Mérieux Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases; and was honored by Bill and Melinda Gates during the launch of their Foundation’s Living Proof Project for global health.In 2009, Dr. Offit received the President’s Certificate for Outstanding Service from the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 2011, Dr. Offit received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Biologics Industry Organization (BIO), the David E. Rogers Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges, the Odyssey Award from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.In 2012, Dr. Offit received the Distinguished Medical Achievement Award from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Drexel Medicine Prize in Translational Medicine from the Drexel University College of Medicine.In 2013, Dr. Offit received the Maxwell Finland award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Distinguished Alumnus award from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the Innovators in Health Award from the Group Health Foundation.In 2015, Dr. Offit won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Dr Offit was a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is a founding advisory board member of the Autism Science Foundation and the Foundation for Vaccine Research.He is also the author of six medical narratives: The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to Today’s Growing Vaccine Crisis (Yale University Press, 2005), Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases (HarperCollins, 2007), for which he won an award from the American Medical Writers Association, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (Columbia University Press, 2008), Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Basic Books, 2011), which was selected by Kirkus Reviews and Booklist as one of the best non-fiction books of the year, Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (HarperCollins, 2013), which won the Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking from the Center for Skeptical Inquiry and was selected by National Public Radio as one of the best books of 2013, and Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine (Basic Books, 2015), selected by the New York Times Book Review as an “Editor’s Choice” book in April 2015.TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogicTWL facebook page : http://on.fb.me/1

Dr Fred Perlak of Monsanto, developer of Bt cotton is out guest to address any questions you have regarding GMOs.Dr. Frederick J. Perlak is in the Pipeline, Strategic Partnerships and Sustainability Team working to identify ways that Monsanto can improve lives, increase agricultural efficiency and conserve resources in developing countries.  In this role Dr. Perlak will lead engagement with social partners to address global issues of the environment and food security. Dr. Perlak has been employed at Monsanto since 1981 and has held a number of positions in the technical organization.  Dr. Perlak was appointed to the Monsanto Fellow Program in 1993 in recognition of his scientific achievement and in 1994, Drs. Perlak and Fischhoff were awarded the Thomas and Hochwalt Science and Technology Award.  The award recognizes individuals who advance Monsanto’s technical leadership by contributing breakthrough fundamental or applied research to the scientific community.  Drs. Perlak and Fischhoff’s discoveries on the expression of Bt genes in plants has directly lead to the commercialization of insect resistant cotton, potato and corn.  Dr. Perlak was a co-recipient of the 2000 Edgar M. Queeny Award for Science and Technology for his contributions to Bollgard cotton.  Dr. Perlak received the First Annual Cotton Incorporated Biotechnology Achievement Award, 2001, presented by Cotton Incorporated for his groundbreaking work in the application of biotechnology to cotton.  Dr. Perlak was appointed Distinguished Science Fellow in 2003, Monsanto’s highest research honor.  Dr. Perlak was the Director of Cotton Technology at Monsanto (1995-2008) responsible for providing strategy and direction to Monsanto’s future cotton efforts.Most recently, Dr. Perlak led the Monsanto Hawaii organization (2008-2014) where he was  responsible for strategy and direction across the functional areas of Monsanto Hawaii including research, manufacturing, future planning and community affairs.Dr. Perlak has presented and published numerous papers and holds numerous patents for his work while at Monsanto.  He has also been elected as a Fellow in the St. Louis Academy of Science in 1998.Dr. Perlak earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Fairfield University and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts -Amherst. Dr. Perlak resides in St. Louis with his wife.

We talk about conspiracy theories with You-tube Vlogger Myles Power. Myles has made many video addressing conspiracy theorist claims, and at one point was on the receiving end of a false copyright claims for his videos addressing HIV/AIDS denial ism. Myles also hosts the League of Nerds podcast.Myles on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/powerm1985Myles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerm1985Myles on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powerm1985League of Nerds: https://www.youtube.com/user/LeagueOfNerdsPodcast

Cal & Ziller speak to political you-tuber, DLandonCole about UK politics and the upcoming UK general election. We give you the lowdown on all the major political parties and their chances at the ballot box.Check out DLandonCole: https://www.youtube.com/user/DLandonColeTwitter: https://twitter.com/dlandoncoleAbout DLandonCole from his about.me:I'm studying for a PhD in Politics at the University of York, looking at why some European far right parties do better than others.I'm also the co-chair of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Round table discussion on the "What the Bleep" 'documentary' that the team watched last week.

Load up your copy of "What the Bleep - Down the Rabbit Hole" and join the TwL team as we cast our eye over the new age tour de force and give our opinions.

In the news: NASA's new chief New Cancer Research Anti Vaxer Music Interview with Klngschor, host of Jinn & Tonic show.

In the news: NASA’s new chief New Cancer Research Anti Vaxer Music Interview with Klingschor, host of Jinn & Tonic show. Errata: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was named chair of the Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, where he will oversee NASA and science programs. He is not “In charge of NASA” as we incorrectly...