timothy caulfield

À l’ère des médias sociaux, de l’IA et de l’hypertrucage, il est primordial de savoir discerner les faits des faux renseignements. Aujourd’hui, nous n’avons plus nécessairement pour principale source d’information le bulletin de nouvelles télévisé de 18 h. Amis, famille, chercheurs, influenceurs, artistes, chefs d’antenne, annonceurs… Qui croire? 

Timothy Caulfield, expert en mésinformation/ désinformation, auteur, professeur à l’Université de l’Alberta et membre de l’Ordre du Canada, ainsi qu'Éric Rancourt, statisticien en chef adjoint à Statistique Canada, se joignent à nous pour aborder les défis liés à notre environnement de l’information et les mesures à prendre pour lutter contre la mésinformation. 

Saying "I'm busy" busy has become a negative admission. You should be more chill! You should set better boundaries!! But… if you can't avoid how busy you are there are some upsides to being booked out. Using advice from Timothy Caulfield, author of Relax: A User’s Guide To Life In The Age Of Anxiety we’re going to teach you how to be busy without having a mental breakdown.

LINKS

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Host: Casey Donovan @caseydonovan88
Writer: Amy Molloy @amymolloy 
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Editor: Adrian Walton

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Saying you’re busy has become a bad admission. But we are! A it turns out, we probably shouldn’t banish busy-ness too quickly. Feeling busy can have both good and bad consequences for our personal and work lives.

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Credits  
Host: Casey Donovan @caseydonovan88
Content: Amy Molloy @amy_molloy
Executive Producer: Elise Cooper
Editor: Adrian Walton

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On this episode we speak with Timothy Caulfield about the battle against science misinformation, specifically information related to covid and the vaccines that are coming out.

This is a follow-up conversation with Tim as he appeared in our seventh-ever episode. Always engaging and ever-informative, we had a blast talking with Tim learning about his work and the new initiative #ScienceUpFirst that he's helping to co-lead.

Make sure to listen until the end when he reads excerpts of some of the mail he's received from "fans." (Please note the sarcasm...he tells us he receives plenty of hate mail...)

Enjoy!

Jon and Katie, your Shift buddies 

BIO
Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science and public health policy has allowed him to publish over 350 academic articles. 

He has won numerous academic and writing awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. 

He contributes frequently to the popular press and is the author of two national bestsellers: 

• The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) and
• Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash (Penguin 2015). 

His most recent book is Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety (Penguin Random House, 2020).

Caulfield is also the host and co-producer of the award winning documentary TV show, A User's Guide to Cheating Death, which has been shown in over 60 countries, including streaming on Netflix in North America.

Shift by Alberta Innovates focuses on the people, businesses and organizations that are contributing to Alberta's strong tech ecosystem.

Before the pandemic, we were the show that invited scholars, makers, and professionals out to brunch for informal conversations about their work, and we look forward to being that show again one day. But for now, we’re recording remotely to maintain physical distancing.

It’s still a pretty fantastic job.

Timothy Caulfield is a faculty member at the University of Alberta, where he is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and research director of the university’s Health Law Institute.

Timothy has published more than 350 academic articles on topics such as research ethics, public representations of science, and public health policy. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, he is also the host and co-producer of the award-winning documentary TV series A User's Guide to Cheating Death and the author of two bestselling books, including Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash.

Timothy joined host Ted Fox and Notre Dame student Lynnette Wukie, our intern during the University’s Winter Session, to talk about his latest book, Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions. It takes on questions like: Is there a scientific reason not to drink so much coffee? And: Is the coworker proselytizing about the benefits of their standing desk going a little overboard?

Related: This episode may or may not have been produced entirely at a standing desk.

The conversation also covered what Timothy describes as three social paradoxes complicating what would otherwise be routine decisions; implications of our chaotic information environment, particularly during the pandemic; and the natural uncertainty that comes with doing good science.

LINKS:

• Timothy’s New Book: Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions
• Episode Transcript