BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ed6c24e2-652c-4eac-8221-c0b74b724840.198524@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20190603T210637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T210637Z LOCATION:Plaster Student Union\, Robert W. Ballroom West SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference - “Just the facts\, ma’am”: Fighting den ialism DESCRIPTION:Panel Session - “Just the facts\, ma’am”: Fighting denialism\n \n\nDisinformation\, misinterpretation and outright lies about scientific information flourish and proliferate on the internet and social media\, directly impacting scientific literacy.  How can society leverage technol ogical advances to promote accurate evaluation of data\, rather than devo lving into denialism and cries of “fake news” or promotion of “alternativ e facts?”  What are the best and most innovative ways to counteract these phenomena?  Is it primarily the domain and responsibility of scientists to fact-check and police the accuracy of scientific information online an d to be the primary communicators thereof?  Or do consumers bear the burd en of responsibility to “figure it out” themselves? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><a href="https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference/schedule/614/-j ust-the-facts-ma-am-fighting-denialism">Panel Session -&nbsp\;“Just the f acts\, ma’am”: Fighting denialism</a></p>\n<p>Disinformation\, misinterpr etation and outright lies about scientific information flourish and proli ferate on the internet and social media\, directly impacting scientific l iteracy.&nbsp\; How can society leverage technological advances to promot e accurate evaluation of data\, rather than devolving into denialism and cries of “fake news” or promotion of “alternative facts?”&nbsp\; What are the best and most innovative ways to counteract these phenomena?&nbsp\; Is it primarily the domain and responsibility of scientists to fact-check and police the accuracy of scientific information online and to be the p rimary communicators thereof?&nbsp\; Or do consumers bear the burden of r esponsibility to “figure it out” themselves?</p>\n<p></p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T144500 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR