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“Pulling
the Pins on Voodoo Science” will be topic of November’s forum
at Brigham Young University-Idaho by Dr. John D. Lamb, a professor of
chemistry at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Lamb
will address the scientific method and how it can help distinguish between
valid and invalid scientific claims.
The
forum will be held Thursday, Nov. 20, at 2
p.m. in the Taylor Chapel and broadcast over KBYI, 100.5 FM.
Lamb
also serves as the associate dean of General Education and Honors and is
the Eliot A. Butler Professor of Chemistry at BYU. He has published more
than 150 original research publications in peer-reviewed scientific
literature and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry and
the chair of the organizing committee of the International Symposium on Macrocyclic Chemistry. As an early innovator in the use
of computer technology in teaching chemistry, he developed Chem Tutor, a multimedia computer tutorial for general
chemistry.
Fluent
in Italian, Lamb has given several chemistry seminars and lectures while
teaching as a visiting professor at the University
of Catania,
the University of Parma,
and the University of Pavia in Italy.
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