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Evaluating Sources & Fact Checking: Crash Course Scientific Thinking #6

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00:00

Are you eating a credit card’s worth of plastic every week?

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Uhh…Probably not.

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But if you saw headlines like this, you might worry that you are.

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These days, trying to piece together what to believe can feel impossible.

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But we can still find reliable, trustworthy answers

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as long as we know how to look for them.

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Hi, I’m Hank Green, and welcome to Crash Course Scientific Thinking.

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You probably already know that you shouldn’t

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believe everything you read, watch, or hear.

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On an internet where everyone is competing both for attention

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and to control narratives,

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it’s no surprise that there are plenty of distortions,

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exaggerations, baseless claims, propaganda, and whatever this is.

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But it’s also home to lots of good scientific information too!

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So when it comes to something as important as science,

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how do we figure out what’s reliable?

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Well, it helps to understand how a science story like this

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becomes news in the first place.

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See, that CNN article isn’t the whole story.

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It’s just the part we see, as consumers of science news.

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*chomp*

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That science news tastes bad!

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Think of it like the tip of the iceberg:

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there’s a lot more going on below the surface.

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CNN got the details from this report by the WWF.

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No, not the wrestling group from the 90s,

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the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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And they got it from a study they commissioned from researchers

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at Australia’s University of Newcastle.

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Which reported a range of possible amounts of plastic that people might consume in a week –

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from a high of 5 grams, all the way down to 0.1 grams.

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But the WWF only reported the high end of the range,

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saying “An average person could be

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ingesting approximately 5 grams of plastic per week.”

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About the size of a credit card.

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And that technically could be true.

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It could be that much.

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There's a lot of things that could be true.

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It's like when the insurance company says,

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“I could save you up to 15 percent or more on your car insurance.”

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