Sunday, March 21, 2010

An Updated "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Tale

Vaughan Bell a clinical and research psychologist has a wonderful presentation given to the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education. Click here to view it.

I enjoy it because it shows that the tale of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is still on-going. Fear-mongering and doomsday gloominess will always be with us. Science is a wonderful "voice of reason" that helps counter these fears. But that voice is drowned out by media-spread fears and the urban myths that take hold of the popular imagination.

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