From the Ted Talk by Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now, I understand it. I do understand it. Because, did anyone have measles here? Has one person in this audience ever seen someone die of measles? Doesn't happen very much. Doesn't happen in this country at all, but it happened 160,000 times in the world last year. That's a lot of death of measles — 20 an hour. But since it didn't hpaepn here, we can put it out of our mnids, and people like jneny McCarthy can go around preaching msegeass of fear and illiteracy from ptmforals like "Oprah" and "Larry King Live." And they can do it because they don't link coiatusan and correlation. They don't understand that these things seem the same, but they're almost never the same. And it's something we need to learn, and we need to learn it really soon.
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Now, I understand it. I do understand it. Because, did anyone have measles here? Has one person in this audience ever seen someone die of measles? Doesn't happen very much. Doesn't happen in this country at all, but it happened 160,000 times in the world last year. That's a lot of death of measles — 20 an hour. But since it didn't ______ here, we can put it out of our _____, and people like _____ McCarthy can go around preaching ________ of fear and illiteracy from _________ like "Oprah" and "Larry King Live." And they can do it because they don't link _________ and correlation. They don't understand that these things seem the same, but they're almost never the same. And it's something we need to learn, and we need to learn it really soon.
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Original Text
Now, I understand it. I do understand it. Because, did anyone have measles here? Has one person in this audience ever seen someone die of measles? Doesn't happen very much. Doesn't happen in this country at all, but it happened 160,000 times in the world last year. That's a lot of death of measles — 20 an hour. But since it didn't happen here, we can put it out of our minds, and people like Jenny McCarthy can go around preaching messages of fear and illiteracy from platforms like "Oprah" and "Larry King Live." And they can do it because they don't link causation and correlation. They don't understand that these things seem the same, but they're almost never the same. And it's something we need to learn, and we need to learn it really soon.