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These days, it seems that everyone from lawyers to performing artists to politicians have caught the brain bug. Journalists have mastered the ability to take a lackluster finding from the lab and make it a life changing revelation about the inner workings of your mind. Third parties are building misleading products and cashing in on people's curiosity and their faith in all things "neuro". Even the occasional neuroscientist trades in their credibility to make an extra buck.
So whose job is it to keep neuroscience in it's place? A good, balanced place where its role in society is appreciated but not exploited. The researchers are too busy with the research. The journalists are pressured to write the story that sells. The educators are so overwhelmed with the demands on their time, that there's no way they're about to start a revolution in someone else's field. We've thought long and hard about this predicament, and until there's a career dedicated to monitoring the mess, we see only one solution: everyone is responsible. And we all have work to do.
We admit, there's already a lot of complaining out there about the misapplication of neuroscience, but the culprits don't seem to be going away. That's where you come in. We think the best weapon to keep bad science at bay is a population empowered with the skills and knowledge to catch a myth unfolding or stop an inflated claim before it spreads.
How do we do this? Simple. Everyone does just a little bit, and the result is enormous.
We asked the designers to make something beautiful and easy to interact with. We asked the researchers to lend their voice and tell us the truth behind the most popular and questionable claims in their field. We asked the educators to help us build cutting edge curriculum, and we asked the programmers to make it all work. Together, we’re putting together a free, fun program that gives people the opportunity to learn how to be a responsible consumer of new science. We've done our part, and we hope you'll be excited to do yours.
This is a program for people who want to learn about the brain and who have no interest in being taken advantage of by for-profit corporations. It's for people who are curious and just never knew where to start. It's for readers who want to know what neuroscientists will and won't claim, straight from the horse's mouth. It's for teachers who don't want to see good classes cut in favor of misinformed curricula. It's for anyone who wants to see a difference in how science and the public interact, and who wants that difference to start with them.
If we all do our part, the bad stuff will be forced to get out of the way, and let the good science get to work.
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