November 12, 2003

BYU-Idaho Forum speaker

to ‘pull the pins on voodoo science’

 

 

            “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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