Faculty First Year Seminars 191BIO9 - FakeScience:Hoaxes,Lies,Misbeh
Fall
2019
01
1.00
Caleb Rounds
M 11:15AM 12:05PM
UMass Amherst
35813
Morrill Sci. Ctr. (II) rm 343
crounds@umass.edu
Through videos, podcasts and discussion we will focus on famous and not so famous examples of scientific hoaxes and malfeasance from Piltdown Man to Theranos. Primarily we will answer the question: "Did good people do bad science or did bad people use good science wrong?" Classes will be discussion based.
Freshmen Only