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• Teaching Critical Thinking and Scientific Skepticism to Different Age Groups

  • When
    04 Mar 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  March Member Meet-Up

  Teaching critical thinking is more important than ever. But how do you do it? There is no clear consensus about how to go about teaching students to “debunk” medical misinformation. Innovative approaches are needed to break through the noise of our current information ecosystem. With so many competing sources of entertainment, getting eyeballs on good medical information is harder than it sounds. We need to start infusing our science communication with story telling. Mixing narrative fiction with scientific fact is not an easy task, but outside the box can train students and the general public how to approach the tsunami of online content they find online, while being entertained along the way. There aren’t many epidemiology books debunking food myths that are also romantic comedies. But after this session, hopefully you will think there should be.

  Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET via Zoom

  Cost: Free to all members

  Hosted by: Christopher Labos (SWCC Board Member)

  

  Dr. Christopher Labos is a cardiologist, a course lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University and an affiliate member of the Department of Global and Public Health. He is a columnist with the Montreal Gazette and Medscape, featured on the Sunday Morning House Call on CJAD radio, and has a regular TV segment with CTV Montreal and CBC Morning Live. He blogs and produces a video series called “On Second Thought” for Medscape. He is an associate with the McGill Office of Science and Society and hosts the award-winning podcast “The Body of Evidence.” He is the author of “Does Coffee Cause Cancer?” a story about food epidemiology and why food headlines are usually wrong. He realizes that half of his research findings will be disproved in five years: he just doesn’t know which half. Occasionally, he finds time to practice as a cardiologist so he can buy groceries. To date no one has offered him his own primetime TV show.
  

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