Intended Audience
The Media Literacy, Civic Engagement, and Democracy Project, a partnership of the College's Center for the Study of Democracy and Hilda C. Landers Library, is pleased to welcome Dr. Jevin D. West to St. Mary's College of Maryland for a lecture on science and misinformation.
Co-author of the book "Calling Bullshit: the Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World," Jevin West is an associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. He co-founded the Center for an Informed Public. He studies the science of science and worries about the spread of misinformation. His laboratory consists of millions of scholarly papers and public posts about science. He develops knowledge discovery tools to facilitate and study science, with a particular interest in how sociological and economic factors drive and slow the evolution of science.