Crowdsourcing a movie about media dishonesty regarding science


Brian Dunning’s done some sketchy shit, and he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for it. If you want to know more about that, Rebecca Watson’s scathing rebuke (and links within) is a good starting point. Nevertheless, I still listen to Skeptoid, and I think this new project sounds promising enough that I chipped in ten bucks:

I have a passing familiarity with some of these cases, and they can be egregious. If the movie makes good on its promise to

…expose these faux documentaries by name,

and to

give the scientists a chance to clear the record,

I’ll consider it money well spent.

Science Friction funding

It will probably also be the first time I’ll have had my name in film credits:

Science Friction rewards

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