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notes:Skeptical 2019 Program - San Francisco:science_communication_and_conspiracy_theorists

Science Communication

  • Science Promotion
  • Science Explaining
    • Examples

A cautionary Tale

Chemtrails

  • The crazy rainbow lady - sprinkling her lawn, sees rainbow, claims it is proof government is putting chemicals in the water - from 2008
    • she made a video about this
    • how do rainbows work?
      • google, get diagrams showing light reflecting in water droplet being refracted - what about the order of the colors - for each angle of light entering, different particular light that is refracted. Each band coming from different drops.
      • Why is light even bending at all?
        • Snell’s law
        • Fermat’s principle - light always takes the path that is the shortest amount of time from one place to another
          • Example of lifeguard - shortest path to get to someone drowning
          • Does this make sense? How does light know
            • Huyens-Fresnel principles - light is lots of waves
            • Why is light slowing down in water?
              • Dr. Don Lincoln - Why does light slow down in water?
                • he says there are a lot of wrong answers on internet. Complicated things over simplified and invents wrong answers
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