Baloney Detection with Dr. K

Baloney Detection Episode 20 -  Stephanie Evenson Interview Stephanie Evenson is a veterinarian and a teaching professor for the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. Stephanie has a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Masters degree in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Stephanie has been a colleague of mine at the Sheboygan campus of UW-Green Bay for many years, teaching...

Baloney Detection Episode 19 - Jeff Bellomo Interview Jeff Bellomo is a successful lawyer in South Central Pennsylvania. He also happens to be, as I said, one of my oldest and best friends. In our senior year at Juniata, Jeff was kind of the odd man out. He was a future lawyer living with three chemists slash scientists, but he also provided so much support, which hopefully we'll get to talk about...

Baloney Detection Episode 18 - Dr. Brian Merkel Interview Dr. Brian Merkel has been with UW Green Bay for 20 years and teaches courses courses in immunology, advanced microbiology, microbiology, and human disease in society. He currently studies the effects of the herbal supplement echinacea on the immune system in cell models and in human subjects. He's a pre‐health advisor for human biology and...

Baloney Detection: Episode17 -- Interview with Jessica Warwick  Jessica Warwick is an instructor at UW-Green Bay who teaches a variety of General Education, introductory and majors level classes. She also does research where data analysis is incredibly important. Our conversation went from teaching styles to research data analysis and adjusting to the rapidly changing student population. It i...

Baloney Detection Podcast – Episode 16 – My Mental Health Journey Part 2   At the end of Part 1 of this story, I had just graduated college and was ready for my journey to graduate school. The transition was challenging, but I managed to get settled before the real intensity of graduate school began. I continued to struggle and struggle until I met someone who gave me the emotional and eventu...

Baloney Detection: Episode 15 - Chemical Names That You Can(not) Pronounce Chemophobia is not a new phenomenon, but with how easy the Internet makes the spread of information, chemophobia has become a much bigger problem in today’s society. The fear of what materials are in a certain product helps drive the sales and profits for many companies, which leads to chemophobia featuring in advertisement...

Baloney Detection Podcast – Episode 14 – Interview with Amanda Shaker  Amanda is a former student of mine going back to when the UW-Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus was known as UW-Sheboygan. Amanda has had a unique educational journey to get to her current position as a dietician in Albuquerque, NM. In this interview, we talk about her career path, diet misinformation and suggestions for current...

Baloney Detection - Podcast Episode 13- Much Ado About M*A*S*H There are very few TV shows that I come back to, watching the episodes over and over again. M*A*S*H is an absolute classic in many ways, but the show means more to me than just watching. The writing and the characters have informed much of my personality and my teaching style. It was not until I became a working adult that I realized t...

Baloney Detection - Podcast Episode 12 – My Mental Health Journey Part 1  As a university instructor, one of the hidden parts of my job is to listen to my students when they have more than just class related issues. I sometimes use my own experiences with mental health journal as examples to try and help students with their own struggles. I would like to share the first part of that journey w...

Baloney Detection Podcast Episode 11 – Social Media and Misinformation Part 2: Influencers   With our conversation about the social media platforms complete, we will move on to discussing specific aspects of the spread of misinformation on those platforms. Influencers are a growing subset of entrepreneurs online that sometimes associate with companies to sell products. Some influencers use mi...

Episode 10 – Developing a Pseudoscience Pedagogy I do not think that education about a particular subject should be limited to just one venue, particularly in the classroom. I began discussing current events and pseudoscience topics more than a decade ago in the classroom, but recently I have developed over avenues of education and research, including this podcast, academic research, and lab resea...

Episode 09 – About Mister Rogers Even now, there are few people that have affected my life as much as Mister Rogers. I grew up watching Mister Rogers Neighborhood and I took to heart all the lessons he taught. As an adult, I recognize the power of his ability to relate to others, not just children, and the kind and honest way he spoke about daily situations and important feelings. I find myself em...

Episode 08 – Interview with Amy Kabrhel  In this episode, I have the great honor of interviewing one of the most important people in my life, my wife Amy Kabrhel. As we have essentially the same job, we often share teaching ideas, philosophies on education, as well as views on sharing information. We discussed both Amy’s vast experience with scientific community outreach, as well as her views...

Episode Description This will be the first episode in a series that goes deeper into how social media platforms operate and how misinformation spreads so easily on them. This episode will focus on the major platforms of social media, what kind of media they share and other important aspects of online speech that have given rise to how we share information online in the 2020s.  Resources https...

Episode Description Celebrities have been selling their own products for ages. These celebrities are either the face of a particular product, or have developed their own lifestyle brands. We will dig into how some current celebrities are using their status and power for the sake of profit and how pseudoscience is inextricably linked with how celebrities sell products.  Resources from this epi...

This is the first of many interviews that I hope to have for this podcast journey. Amanda is a former student, graduate of UW-Green Bay and a passionate advocate for the health of rural Wisconsinites. She will share her journey and her plans on communicating health information to the local population. Send us an email, suggest a topic, or ask a question at baloneydetectionpodcast@gmail.com . Make...

Think about how many choices you have on where to shop and what products to buy. How do you choose where to go and how to spend your money? These can be very difficult questions to answer, and regardless of what your choice is, there will be consequences good or bad. We start a discussion in this episode about how to navigate through these issues.  Links :  https://www.security.org/digit...

I am incredibly passionate about science education and discussion pseudoscience. But I can be credibly accused of using my position and knowledge to create a bully pulpit in the classroom and in public presentations. In this episode, I discuss some self-analysis of that part of my personality and why I have completely change how I engage with my students and the public. Send us an email, suggest a...

In scientific communication, language is incredibly important. Specific science words and science-sounding words have become trigger points for a lot of what we see in the news and social media. This episode begins our conversation about scientific and pseudoscientific language.  View the transcript for this episode. Books Referenced:   Vitamins and Health Foods: The Great American Hustl...

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Ready to get started with a new podcast out of Phoenix Studios? Learn a little bit about how Baloney Detection got started and it's purpose for following episodes! Send us an email, suggest a topic, or ask a question at baloneydetectionpodcast@gmail.com . View the transcript for this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.