Trolling With Logic

James and Myles from the League of Nerds join us as we watch the AIDs denialist "documentary" House of Numbers

The League of Nerds (TLoN for short) came into existence around october 2013 when long time Youtubers Myles Power (powerm1985) and James Gurney (jimtheevo) decided to set up their own podcast.

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Myles and James The League of Nerds

About Myles.

For those of you who are just tuning in, my name is Myles Power and I run the educational YouTube channel powerm1985. I am originally from a small town in the North East of England called Middlesbrough, but have spend a large potion of my adult life living in Manchester. I am a chemist who is is currently working in industry, but what little free time I have I spend sharing my love of SCIENCE! through home experiments, visiting sites of scientific interest and angry rants at pseudoscience opponents. I studied chemistry specialising in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester and Toronto. Later in my career, I moved more towards bio-chemistry and worked on projects including the synthesising various nucleic acid analogues for non-enzymatic transcription and controlling gene expression using a mutant riboswitch. I have over 7 years of experience working in a research lab, which has given me the skills I need to research and debunk virus psuedoscience theories. Some of the theories I have discussed on my YouTube channel including AIDS denialists, 911 truthers, the anti-vaccination movement and homeopathy to name a few.

https://www.youtube.com/user/powerm1985

About James.

James is a microbiologist who specialises in evolutionary microbiology. He knows very little about anything else. Currently he is about to start a postdoc on bacterial co-evolution with Phage for therapeutic reasons in France. He has been doing stuff online since about 2008. His biggest annoyance is Antivaxers.

https://www.youtube.com/user/JimtheEvo

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New show for the new year! We speaks to Youtube content creator ColdHardLogic about bizarre conspiracy theories from Flat Earth and Geocentrism to everyone's favourite clickbait pseudoscience website, Spirit "Science".CHL began making videos in 2012 after encountering another Youtuber who was determined that the Earth was the center of the universe, inspiring him to make a series called "Testing Geocentrism", in which he uses the ridiculous notion of Geocentrism as a comedic backdrop to explore the history and science of astrophysics.His other series include:Testing Homeopathy - in which he explores where this pseudoscientific idea came from and how viable it is (spoiler alert: It isn't. At all);Testing Spirit Science - in which he explores some of the more outlandish claims made by Jordan and his gang (warning: be sure to have your face protecting oven gloves at the ready);World of Batshit - which looks at various different crazy ideas from flat Earth, space denialism (yes, that really is a thing), moon hologram, and planes actually being flying demons.His "Testing Geocentrism" series got so up the nose of Robert Sungenis, who wrote "Galileo was wrong" and made the pseudoscience propaganda-fest "The Principle", that he felt compelled to write a "rebuttal" to part of his series (you can guess how successful that wasn't).https://www.youtube.com/user/CoolHardLogic

In a change to our schedule, Dr Paul Offit will be our guest to discuss Vaccine myth and fact as well as the prevalence of the Anti-Vax movement.Paul A. Offit, MD is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of many awards including the J. Edmund Bradley Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics from the University of Maryland Medical School, the Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development from the Infectious Disease Society of America, and a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.Dr. Offit has published more than 150 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety. He is also the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC; for this achievement Dr. Offit received the Luigi Mastroianni and William Osler Awards from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Charles Mérieux Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases; and was honored by Bill and Melinda Gates during the launch of their Foundation’s Living Proof Project for global health.In 2009, Dr. Offit received the President’s Certificate for Outstanding Service from the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 2011, Dr. Offit received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Biologics Industry Organization (BIO), the David E. Rogers Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges, the Odyssey Award from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.In 2012, Dr. Offit received the Distinguished Medical Achievement Award from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Drexel Medicine Prize in Translational Medicine from the Drexel University College of Medicine.In 2013, Dr. Offit received the Maxwell Finland award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Distinguished Alumnus award from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the Innovators in Health Award from the Group Health Foundation.In 2015, Dr. Offit won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Dr Offit was a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is a founding advisory board member of the Autism Science Foundation and the Foundation for Vaccine Research.He is also the author of six medical narratives: The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to Today’s Growing Vaccine Crisis (Yale University Press, 2005), Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases (HarperCollins, 2007), for which he won an award from the American Medical Writers Association, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (Columbia University Press, 2008), Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Basic Books, 2011), which was selected by Kirkus Reviews and Booklist as one of the best non-fiction books of the year, Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (HarperCollins, 2013), which won the Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking from the Center for Skeptical Inquiry and was selected by National Public Radio as one of the best books of 2013, and Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine (Basic Books, 2015), selected by the New York Times Book Review as an “Editor’s Choice” book in April 2015.TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogicTWL facebook page : http://on.fb.me/1

Dr Fred Perlak of Monsanto, developer of Bt cotton is out guest to address any questions you have regarding GMOs.Dr. Frederick J. Perlak is in the Pipeline, Strategic Partnerships and Sustainability Team working to identify ways that Monsanto can improve lives, increase agricultural efficiency and conserve resources in developing countries.  In this role Dr. Perlak will lead engagement with social partners to address global issues of the environment and food security. Dr. Perlak has been employed at Monsanto since 1981 and has held a number of positions in the technical organization.  Dr. Perlak was appointed to the Monsanto Fellow Program in 1993 in recognition of his scientific achievement and in 1994, Drs. Perlak and Fischhoff were awarded the Thomas and Hochwalt Science and Technology Award.  The award recognizes individuals who advance Monsanto’s technical leadership by contributing breakthrough fundamental or applied research to the scientific community.  Drs. Perlak and Fischhoff’s discoveries on the expression of Bt genes in plants has directly lead to the commercialization of insect resistant cotton, potato and corn.  Dr. Perlak was a co-recipient of the 2000 Edgar M. Queeny Award for Science and Technology for his contributions to Bollgard cotton.  Dr. Perlak received the First Annual Cotton Incorporated Biotechnology Achievement Award, 2001, presented by Cotton Incorporated for his groundbreaking work in the application of biotechnology to cotton.  Dr. Perlak was appointed Distinguished Science Fellow in 2003, Monsanto’s highest research honor.  Dr. Perlak was the Director of Cotton Technology at Monsanto (1995-2008) responsible for providing strategy and direction to Monsanto’s future cotton efforts.Most recently, Dr. Perlak led the Monsanto Hawaii organization (2008-2014) where he was  responsible for strategy and direction across the functional areas of Monsanto Hawaii including research, manufacturing, future planning and community affairs.Dr. Perlak has presented and published numerous papers and holds numerous patents for his work while at Monsanto.  He has also been elected as a Fellow in the St. Louis Academy of Science in 1998.Dr. Perlak earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Fairfield University and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts -Amherst. Dr. Perlak resides in St. Louis with his wife.

We talk about conspiracy theories with You-tube Vlogger Myles Power. Myles has made many video addressing conspiracy theorist claims, and at one point was on the receiving end of a false copyright claims for his videos addressing HIV/AIDS denial ism. Myles also hosts the League of Nerds podcast.Myles on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/powerm1985Myles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerm1985Myles on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powerm1985League of Nerds: https://www.youtube.com/user/LeagueOfNerdsPodcast

Cal & Ziller speak to political you-tuber, DLandonCole about UK politics and the upcoming UK general election. We give you the lowdown on all the major political parties and their chances at the ballot box.Check out DLandonCole: https://www.youtube.com/user/DLandonColeTwitter: https://twitter.com/dlandoncoleAbout DLandonCole from his about.me:I'm studying for a PhD in Politics at the University of York, looking at why some European far right parties do better than others.I'm also the co-chair of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Round table discussion on the "What the Bleep" 'documentary' that the team watched last week.

Load up your copy of "What the Bleep - Down the Rabbit Hole" and join the TwL team as we cast our eye over the new age tour de force and give our opinions.

In the news: NASA's new chief New Cancer Research Anti Vaxer Music Interview with Klngschor, host of Jinn & Tonic show.