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Misinformation about scientific results is omnipresent in the media with claims such as ‘Treating with statins a waste of time’ or ‘Hot tea causes cancer’. In this session we discuss ways to overcome this type of misinformation, from both a theoretical and practical standpoint.
Numbers do not lie, but they are quite good at concealing the truth. In this abridged version of her interactive theatre lecture Ionica Smeets shows the audience how easily they can be fooled by numbers with surprising real life examples, weird mathematical paradoxes, irrefutable logic, counterintuitive experiments and specially made animations.