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But it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool, because real science is about critically appraising the
evidence
for somebody else's position.
We'll start with the absolute weakest form of
evidence
known to man, and that is authority.
Next, we need proper science, proper
evidence.
What I've just shown you are examples of the very simple and straightforward ways that journalists and food supplement pill peddlers and naturopaths can distort
evidence
for their own purposes.
What I find really fascinating is that the pharmaceutical industry uses exactly the same kinds of tricks and devices, but slightly more sophisticated versions of them, in order to distort the
evidence
they give to doctors and patients, and which we use to make vitally important decisions.
It's at the top of the pyramid of
evidence.
There's some
evidence
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, and then it most likely traveled to North America with Dutch settlers.
They go out and test it against the
evidence.
The
evidence
makes them change that hypothesis.
So the unlikely hypothesis actually has stronger
evidence.
So we did just this; we gave four year-olds this pattern of evidence, and we just asked them to make it go.
And sure enough, the four year-olds used the
evidence
to wave the object on top of the detector.
And the other interesting thing is that they're using that
evidence
to get to an idea, get to a hypothesis about the world, that seems very unlikely to begin with.
And again, through social media, we started encountering individuals with material like this: photographs,
evidence.
And there's really no evidence, other than that people just disbelieve that cells can do what they do.
What's changed is we now can look at the evidence, we can compare societies, more and less equal societies, and see what inequality does.
We were a little bit worried that people might think we'd been choosing problems to suit our argument and just manufactured this evidence, so we also did a paper in the British Medical Journal on the UNICEF index of child well-being.
And the point about Bayesian decision theory is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with your sensory
evidence
to generate new beliefs.
What
evidence
is there for this?
The
evidence
is found in the games they play.
And when they brought her case to the judge, for the first time he stood up and he said, "Yes, there's no
evidence
except for your torture confession and you will be released."
Well today I want to present to you an idea that may be surprising and may even seem implausible, but which is supported by the latest
evidence
from psychology and biology.
You see, I'm a lawyer and I needed some
evidence.
Why do we ignore countless personal stories and overwhelming scientific
evidence
that harm reduction works?
We have scientific
evidence
and successes from needle exchanges methadone and supervised injection sites.
Because the whole business of actually suggesting that someone is breaking the law and then gathering
evidence
and proving that, that turns out to be really inconvenient.
Because until we convince Congress that the way to deal with copyright violation is the way copyright violation was dealt with with Napster, with YouTube, which is to have a trial with all the presentation of
evidence
and the hashing out of facts and the assessment of remedies that goes on in democratic societies.
Theory and empirical
evidence
Have already taught us.
But the perhaps surprising but overwhelming and compelling
evidence
from all these modern examples is that it does work.
The
evidence
of that is that studies in rats, again with atrazine, show that the hormone imbalance atrazine generates causes abortion.
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