TED Talks

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TED Talks are a venue for speakers to give short academic or semi-academic talks about subjects they feel need public attention in fields like medicine, design, science, art, or society. Its tagline is "ideas worth spreading". Unfortunately, this doesn't come with very good quality control, and often pseudoscientific ideas get presented totally seriously.[1] Even ignoring these failings, the general tone for TED conferences can seem a lot like slacktivism, drawing attention to a problem, and discussing it, without doing anything about.

On the plus side, Natural News hates them for having a presentation correctly describing the (lack of) risks from GMOs.[2]

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  1. TED under fire for pseudoscience AGAIN (UPDATE) Doubtful news
  2. boo hoo, scientists are so unfair
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