Is This WiFi Organic?, Dave Farina
Is This WiFi Organic?, Dave Farina
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online

Author: Dave Farina

Narrator: Dave Farina

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/30/2021

Synopsis

Is This Wi-Fi Organic? is about science that affects us all. Science is the study of everything around us. But one impressive scientific breakthrough, the internet, has pervaded and encapsulated popular culture, and it is also making it harder and harder to know what is true—and what is not.

Learn how to separate internet fact from fiction. We live in the information age, giving us access to every datum ever collected and every opinion its originator thought fit to share. But with this newfound access to information comes a new challenge. Namely, how can you tell what information is true and what is false? In Is This Wi-Fi Organic? Dave Farina, author and science expert from the YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, is here to help you fight confirmation bias and logical fallacies. In this book of science essays, you will learn:

● The real science behind controversial health issues like medications and vaccines

● What energy actually is—and how we use it each and every day

● A core of scientific knowledge, from biochemistry and molecular biology to theoretical physics, that will help you pull truths from the weeds of misinformation and outright lies

About Dave Farina

Dave Farina has a BA in chemistry from Carleton College and an MA in science education from California State University, Northridge. After years of teaching chemistry in the classroom, he turned his attention to science communication in 2015, focusing primarily on his YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains.

Dave's channel serves as a database of nearly a thousand tutorials in a wide variety of scientific fields. These educational videos have just enough detail to help struggling high school and undergraduate students and are visually engaging and general enough for any viewer who just wants to learn a few things.

Although Dave is passionate about helping students all over the world reach their academic and career goals, he is even more passionate about bestowing the public with basic science literacy. Anti-science sentiment has been growing in recent years, and it has demonstrated itself to be harmful to society. Dave is devoted to diagnosing and disarming common anti-science narratives and exposing pseudoscience wherever it crops up.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on October 06, 2023

I liked this one, Farina was ruthless with the pseudo-scientists of the pandemic and “quantum” healing epidemic. He called out charlatans like Andrew Wakefield and Deepak Chopra and very easily dismantled how they are wrong about everything they talk about. There was also some basic cell biology and......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on August 30, 2022

In The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan warned readers: “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” Dave Farina has made it his life’s mission to remedy such wholesale ignorance, hosting a youtube channel i......more

Goodreads review by Gendou on April 11, 2021

Dave is the king of plain language debunking. This book eviscerates alternative medicine by teaching the tiniest bit of basic chemistry. Given the title, I wish he'd taken the Organic industry to task a little bit more. It was sort of a short book, there was room for more. Hopefully Dave will write......more

Goodreads review by Cav on August 08, 2024

"Science Let this word simmer in your mind for a moment. Examine every texture. Taste the nuance. What does this word make you think of? How does it make you feel?" Is This Wi-Fi Organic? was a decent book on science communication. I have watched a few videos by the author on his YouTube channel, and......more

Goodreads review by Megan on September 09, 2022

This book had a 5/5 first chapter and sunk to a 1/5 by it's final chapter. It's as if you took the most smug teenager from r/atheist who thinks he can write because he knows the word "elucidates" and asked him to write a book mansplaining to every girl he saw on Tinder that the rituals and beliefs t......more

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