us. >> great to see you. congratulations on another blockbuster. good night from new york. >> we're told that science creates monsters. >> man eating tomatoes. >> the leading fight against gmos. >> which brings this question from actors. >> how dopped do you think we are? . john: very. and so is your ex. >> antifreeze needs to be removed immediately. >> the good thing about scientists is it's true whether or not you believe in it . john: but what is true? i'm told men ask women are exactly equal. >> i'm a man. well, on anybody's perfect . john: i'm told i can eat more

chocolate and i should eat no wheat. >> all organic and dairy free. . john: the war with science. that's our show. tonight. . john: getting science right matters. sometimes our lives are on the line. that's why debates over vaccines, global warming stem cells and so on are important. the left says the right ignore good signs. they deny global warming some deny evolution they ban laws for stem cell that he never might save lives. the right said it's left that ignore science it's the right that over obsess about population and led campaigns against vaccines, plastics, artificial sweeteners. i can go on. the left's ignorance, if they

ban government financing of stem cell research, private semesters will continue the work. but when left this push science, they often get politicians to pass laws gazed on it, and those laws subject all of us to government force. they restrict our choices. matt welch has followed the debates as his position of editor of reason magazine. did i characteristic this correctly. >> i think so. i think the right is too passing laws that affect us basically on their preferences and bad preferences at any given time. and what's important for all of us is to separate what a politician says about science and what a politician says about policy, which is the actual job that we elect politicians to do. we have this fence here, a lot of people like to argue about science rather than argue about policy because it's easier to see, oh, he's an

interrogatorya he's a bad guy than it is to defend something like global warming and climate change . john: in general people on the right are skeptical about global warning, so the popular video portrays republicans as geezers who deny science. >> does your parent, grandparent, or political representative suffer from climate change denial disorder? it is a rapidly spreading disease that world health officials say if left untreated, could destroy the entire plant. >> there's nothing more relaxing than being out here in the water. >> going to wait until more. [clepe] happens to our plant and i'm a senator, i get to make these decisions for us . john: so this has been viewed millions of times and it has republicans as old guys who deny modern science. >> sure. and in some cases that's true. at the same time that doesn't mean that the people who believe in the proper science

of this have the best policy, and this is especially true when it comes to issues that involve environmentalism in some way or another. >> i don't mind when they say i'm not a scientist but i want to see really convincing evidence before we spend more of your money and turn our lives upside down for global warning. >> to say i'm not a scientist is a important reminder it's not always used this way i wish that andrew in new york said i'm not a scientist which might ban fracking in my state where there's an incredible north up state new york, and no one has showed that fracking does anything bad to groundwater. all the blue ribbon studies on this have basically said it's okay. we haven't seen any evidence for that . john: i wouldn't say they haven't shown anything -- >> not anything . john: because there are a few cases. >> sure. john: that caused the problem. but all energy is dirty. >> when you dig 30,000 logicals there's going to be some dirty . john: right. >> and once that science or the practice starts to become popular; right? it will

happen if solar ever gets very popular, there will be a lot of people talking about, you know desert wildlife that we're ruining in this process. . john: job, who is going to be running hillary's campaign in 2009 the natural gas produces less fuel than coal, he was all enthusiastic. >> yeah. he might be a little bit less now although hillary clinton is not as bad on this issue as interview and some other democrats are. . john: one thing the left is antiscience about is producing electricity by splitting atoms. >> nuclear power remains a dirty, dangerous and expensive form of energy. >> some of the worlds worst accidents happen at nuclear plants. . john: what? three mile island hurt on anybody. there was a tiny release of radioactivity. >> yeah. -- john: and these other -- i mean people think of you the real total is 60.

what are they -- >> i think a lot of this is cultural memory; right? and then there's no technology that makes it even cleaner. but every big energy thing has tradeoffs, and those tradeoffs are always going to be messy . john: let's of people on the left are scared of gmos, genetically modified organisms, they play around to create better tasting foods or plants that resist insects but the left says don't feel with mother nature, and this week hollywood said that in the new jurassic world, which had the biggest global opening of any movie ever. >> a whole new frontier has opened up, we have our first genetically modified hybrid. >> you just went and made a new dinosaur? >> probably not a good idea. >> we've had these fears since

frankenstein, even the european commission when they looked at this, they said this has no adverse affects and pesticides are supposed to be bad, they actually are kind of bad, you don't want a lot of them. use less fertilizer, you can make a lot more wheat and corn on this patch of stuff so you can use the rest of your land for forests and happy things like that. so the environmental tradeoff is so clear. so people who are opposing gmos especially at the level of government are leading to preventable death . john: today in america some people get sick because other people fear vac séances. clearly it's often wealthy liberals who don't vaccinate their kids, here's the map that shows the biggest measle outbreaks in california, are often areas like hollywood and it was hollywood stars who

winston lots of people that there are bad people. >> like the freaking mercury the antifreeze need to be removed immediately. >> how stupid do you think we are? >> this is sad. a lot of this dates to a 1998 study that was eventually withdrawn. everyone who has studied this subsequent to this said it was wrong, linking back to autism, and because of that we see a lot of bad policy . john: i'm struck that it's this belief by antidote, i vaccinated by which i had and then the awe autism showed up. >> i just had a daughter recently, four months old now and you have to get the vaccine for hepatitis. and it's, like, i don't think she's being a drug user having unprotected sex. so i understand people's question about it it's just regrettable when it's based on junk science which it is too often .

john: thank you. well, reason magazine. let's debate just one issue that's in the news now. gender equality. today's politics are right with the claim that women are discriminated against. >> the average woman who works full-time in america earns less than a man. >> women earn 78 cents on the dollar. >> isn't it amazing that we're still debating women deserve equal pay for equal work? . john: and the institute for women's policy research agrees with that. >> women work, and they still make less, and particularly they make less when they have college degrees . john: and there's not a difference in how hard they work or how much time off they took or what they study in college, there's no reason for it? just sexism. >> they get paid differently when they study the same and actually it's biggest for people who work the longest

hours, the wage gap gets larger . john: so if women are so under paid but they're just as skilled for the exact same job, why don't you open a business and become a billionaire because hire only women, and you'll have so much more room to under price everybody else, you'll cleanup. why don't people do that? >> because economics is not as rational as you think, and they can get women cheaper . john: i think it's because women make different choices. maybe you have healthier attitudes about taking time off. women when they really research this, labor department it says the difference is almost entirely the result of individual choices made by men and women. >> we do do different jobs. sometimes, you know, women are much more likely to be nurses and men are much more likely to be engineers. . john: okay. >> why do we pay nurses less than engineers? and a lot of it inspires prejudice .

john: there aren't just basic differences between men and women? boys and girls? aptitudes? interests? don't boys prefer to play sports girls prefer dance. isn't that biological? >> if you look at the world cup in soccer for women . john: yeah. great. it's not a lot. it's fewer. >> incredibly good at landing into their environment and when they're that little, they want to copy what's going on, not their parents necessarily but they're incredible good antenna for figuring out . john: so it's the social influence of society. >> but then when they grow up, just because you play wabashy doesn't mean that you less good at math or that you are . john: no. nobody's saying that. >> but you were saying that, no? you were saying that they play with barbies, and that means we go into fields .

john: even baby monkeys play with trucks, boy monkeys prefer them. >> right. but that's when they're babies and then they grow up, and it doesn't help you predict really whether they're going to be good at science or at social studies . john: you look at college majors the ones that bring high pay on average me patrolium engineers math, computer science aerospace engineering, they're almost -- they're dominated by males. >> you know, math it's 40% women now . john: well that means it's 60% men and they get paid month of. >> but some of them is keeping women out . john: sexism and government should take steps to prevent that? fix it? >> yes. they should be but you know, laws come to everything. people have a right to be treated equally but, you know employers need to realize that those things aren't happening by themself.

you need to take some extra steps . john: well, i say if what you say were true, somebody would take active steps and hire women and get rich. i keep waiting for it to happen, it doesn't happen. >> you need a little pushing. a lot of them . john: thank you to join this argument, please follow me on twitter at fbn, use that hashtag science wars or like the facebook page and then i get to find out what you think. coming up do you know that eating chocolate is good for you? >> get your chocolate out and let's lose some weight. it's part adrenaline and part adventure. it's part geek and part chic. it's part relaxation and part exhilaration.

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calories. so why would the news media write headlines like that? because john suckered him into it. he's a science writer who works with students at harvard. how did you sell chocolate as a weight loss product. >> well, i did it how all science gets done, i did a study, a bad one . john: it was a real stud. >> it was. we only used 15 people . john: you give some chocolate some precedent, and you look at differences over time, and here's something probably statistical noise but some of them lost weight. >> you've got it. if you were to repeat the experiment, you would get something else . john: so no one would publish this. >> well, there's a grow industry of fake science but there's no peer review. if you don't have any peer review, you're just publishing

your stuff in the haven't press . john: which you did and the media picked it up because of a good press release. >> and you have to brows through these things no one else e-mail in-box every day and i have to admit that we're lazy. if a good press release comes across our way with, you know, a sexy hook up front something that taps into the eye, in our case it was easter's coming and we've got good news about chocolate. it had great quotes from scientists and punchy kick iter at the end . john: and we want to believe that we can eat chocolate. >> and also the story that everyone wanted to hear. it's true . john: another scary story pushed on tv. do you eat potato chips? you better not. these are full of chemicals that causing cancer. >> if you're eating these as showed in the piece in essence you're given the same check that could be found in

these. these could cost cancer . john: so these do have that chemical in it. >> but what they detected in potato chips is just vanishingly amounts of it . john: right. and here's the tv program on cbs, and they're just throwing this stuff out. >> this has been translated really badly for the public. because while it is technically true that it is a substance that's been linked to cancer, that's also true of a million substances . john: there's just as much or more in anything you cook at high temperatures, also prune juice, coffee, cornflakes. >> it's gotten way more attention than it deserves . john: so why do they do this? >> well, i think for good reasons. cancer's scary. it's killing people we love, so it's something you should care about. willing it's just that people lose sight of the relative risk. if you care that much about

it, you should never across the street . john: you don't believe in scientists, they're just looking for fame. >> and also the truth at some level, and we journalists are also looking for the truth it's just that so out of whack when it comes to what you should eat. we borrow up these minor results into headlines, what you should eat or what you should eat, and i think that's usually research . john: so go ahead and eat chips, but in moderation. coming up how bad science and poppy tricked my mom into eating horrible stuff. and next the formula for creating a climate since expert. our next guest says if you mix fear with a lot of personality, you get these three. science superstar

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john: the most toply debated science issue these days is global warming of course.

i mean climate change. three science superstars stand the case that we must act now. subsidies solar power buy an electronic car and who are these three superstars? >> bill nie the science guy. . john: bill is one he hosted a tv series that taught kids about science and to his credit he's willing to come on programs like mine and debate us so-called deniers. neil won't debate. the planetarium director was host of the tv series cosmos. and of course let's not forget nobel prize winner al gore. >> our ability to live is what is at stake.

. john: if you listen only to gore tyson and nei, you know we're on a path to disaster, and we better do something about it now. but do they really know what they're talking about let's bring on a real research scientist at the university of alabama. so what makes you more knowledgeable than these guys. >> well, i've actually been doing climate science for the last 25 years, and these guys haven't . john: bill n ie when it comes to client change, bill is still the science guy. >> yeah. unfortunately bill has settled some things that are just down right deceptive . john: he's a mechanical engineer. >> yeah. he's a mechanical engineer, but he could learn about this stuff and i'm afraid he hasn't. john: and tyson so worshiped by the left. all around awesome guy. and neil is with it. >> well, there's no question these guys have personality

which most of us scientists don't. . john: okay. let's look more closely at our three superstars starting with bill nei, he's picked up the idea that they're deniers. >> people are going to have to leave florida leave louisiana, when people say i'm a climate skeptic no, you're a climate denier, you're a climate change denier. . john: he gets an applause. you're a denier, denying obviously truth. >> i really resent the term, as do other skeptics, because we don't deny climate change, it has always occurred, most of us humans have some role in that but again this plays well on tv and to certain audiences . john: yeah deny is that it's a big crisis, and it has us spending billions pretending to solve it. >> yeah. and we should actually be killing millions of people to solve it, because that's what the current

proposed solutions . john: do you do killing because it would make it harder for fossil fuels. >> yeah. everything humans do requires energy. this past winter, thousands of people in the uk died just because energy had gotten so expensive due to the forces, you know, in the government that want people to buy wind energy, which is extremely expensive . john: but nei gets all the good publicity, you don't. he gets attention for things, like bill floods texas. >> yeah. right now bill can say-like our recent tropical storm bill, which occurred, by the way during hurricane season, we do get tropical storms in hurricane season. everything gets blamed on global warming now it's just ridiculous and i don't know how these things relevant people can say things with a straight face. . john: and onto tyson, because

of him it's tough because of climate. >> increasingly in retreat and it's all thanks to part of neil tyson. >> nor missouri relevant people begin to lose their wealth, if they lose their wealth they change their mind very fast, enabling capitalist culture . john: capitalist culture. he worked that in. >> it's capitalism, and the generation of wealth brought about through access to abundant of affordable energy that has allowed us to be resilient against weather. . john: finally our former superstar, al gore. i thought he was old news by now. he first embarrassed when he first caught in his giant house burning 12 times the amount of fuel that other americans burn. also a judge pointed out that his film has nine big errors, at least and i thought on anybody much cared about

inconvenient truth anymore. film's nine years old after all, but it turned out that children today watch in school sometimes several times. and, well, al gore won't debate any skeptics in the media, he does wow clinton foundation audience. >> look at my hometown nashville three years ago. they called it a once in a thousand year flood. look at the fires in the west. look at the pakistan flood. look at the russian drought and put food prices at a all-time high. these events are 100 times more common than they were in the mid-20th century . john: 100 times more common. >> which is bull. [bleep] severe weather has not increased, even the united nations admits this. there has not been any increase -- john: that's what i'm understanding too. so we and al gore and bill and neil what makes you qualified to talk about climate change?

gore and tyson did not respond, but bill did. he says as an engineer, i studied physics classical physics. i took courses in heat transfer and mechanics. the physics in the atmosphere require both. >> that's true. but you need a lot more than that. and i've learned in 25 years that what we think we know about the climate system, it seems like the more we learn the more we realize we don't know . john: but our government will spend lots of our money based on what we don't know. thank you roy spencer. coming up a debate over an invisible chemical that the government puts in our tap water.

john: it sounds like a libertarian nightmare. government quietly puts a chemical in our drinking water. most of us don't even know

about it. but the chemical even in small amounts has a powerful effect. a good one actually, it reduces tooth decay i'm talking about fluoride, and my kids have fewer cavities than i had growing up, probably because of this added fluoride. but that's no reason to add it say many activists. >> i have a problem with any sort of medication to our water supply. there's no control over the dose, some people drinking a lot, some people don't drink enough water . john: that's right paul. he's the author of the case against fluoride. he wants fluoridation stopped now. but some say fluoridation is good for public health. so why? it's in toothpaste now. >> it's in their toothpaste, however, we found that floor

i'd on a daily basis is absorbed into the enamel, making it very restent to decay so they get the benefit. john: sounds good. what's your problem. >> you don't need swallow it. you can buy fluoride toothpaste and put it on your teeth . john: but some parents aren't responsible, this gets them all. >> yeah. but possibly in a harmful way. we now have 43 studies out of 50 associated with fairly modest exposure to fluoride . john: a lowering of iq. i'm just surprised because i see that the american dental association, the u.s. public health service the american academy of pediatrics they all endorse it, they wouldn't endorse it if it lowered your iq. >> those endorsements go back to the 1950s, and they haven't changed much then .

john: is my iq lower? >> the study they talked about is all plants and animals. not human beings. in addition the studies in his book for the majority of him have been refuted as not been founded on good science . john: they're all plants on animals. >> no. there were 43 human studies -- john: 43 human studies. you're wrong. >> the humans were eating the plants and animals. if the c.d.c., the world health organization and canada proved -- john: but on his side, they're bureaucracies. >> yeah. but okays . john: what did she but portland, oregon says no. >> lots of places say no in direct response to political positioning, which makes the vote go to direct, however, it is absolute. and this science has been proven over and over again to have massive health care benefits. otherwise c.d.c. would not announce that water fluoridation is one of the top

ten greatest achievements in health care. >> it was by two people, they were six years out of date with the health studies, and there is evidence that fluoridation reduces tooth decay is pathetic, you have there the graphs that show how ludicrous the claim was . john: let's talk about that. let's show this graph and doctor comment on this because it shows how tooth decay trends, good news, dropping sharply in all these countries, but it's dropping in countries that fluorideate and also those that don't. >> i think it's outstanding and i'm really pleased to see that paul has brought this to our attention. >> in most places that don't have central water. >> absolutely. they substitute other vehicles .

john: in salt. >> it's in certain candy and most importantly in these countries in europe, they have a very advanced dental health care programs for children. >> but also you throw in there the availability of topical fluoride fluoride toothpaste. and when you have the c.d.c. admitting that fluoride works topically and not systemically then it makes sense to brush it on your teeth and spit it out this way you protect the other tissues on your body and you're not forcing it on people that don't want it. you're allowing government to do to everyone -- john: i don't know what who don't know this. you point out -- once they start doing it, the politics are such they can never undo it. >> tell me about another needs a we put in the drinking water. >> we have lots of examples where we eye io dies salt. . john: everybody getting the drinking water we're out of time here.

thank you paul. next will you look as good as this woman? if you just avoid certain foods, she says it worked for her.

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john: you want to look like beyoncé? she's lost weight and she says what allowed her to do that is her all vegan diet, and now you too can eat what she eats thanks to her diet plan, which good morning, america plugs shamelessly here. >> and while we all can't be that flawless, now we can eat like her with the launch of the launch with her new very good an nutrition plan. >> it's healthy, it has beyoncé, and then the price point is good . john: it costs 9- $16 a meal. and agriculture economist jason tries to keep track of the games, and he keeps finding things like vegetarian and vegan diets. >> i don't care what you give up eating, you and i are not going to look like beyoncé.

so, unfortunately, the trouble with diets like that is we can probably go on them and lose a little bit of weight, but they're really hard to stick to. so what you see often is people will go on them, lose some weight, and then gain it all back really quickly . john: a lot of vegetarians stay on their diets and have all kinds of arguments for the vegan diet, which is vegetarian bill also no animal products, no eggs, no dairy no honey even, because it comes from bees. >> that's right. and the trouble is when you look at science is that -- it's hard to separate out whether people that are eating vegetarian diets are just healthier in and of themselves or the diet is causing that . john: so they are healthier. >> there is evidence that yes, some vegetable trainers healthier, but they also often to be female, drink and smoke less . john: they tend to be -- if they're food obsessed enough to be vegetarians they're the kind of people who obsess about good health. >> they are. and actually the research does show that most people that

become vegetarians often revert back to eating meat at some point . john: for those who don't want to go completely vegetarian, the humane society says at least try meatless monday. >> health support the idea of kicking off each week, sandwiches and fish sticks, with my for one oprah is onboard. . john: if oprah's on board it must be true. >> everything oprah says is true of course. we know that. there's nothing wrong with going meatless monday, you might be a little bit healthier and create an environmental benefit by cutting back on your meat, but we like to eat meat, mother nature has allowed us with the meat it brings us a healthy pack of vitamins that we naturallily enjoy. so we might be welling to exchange a little bit of health or consequences to get something that we like, and indeed if you look it had meat is expensive than

vegetarian diets and we are often willing to pay that because it taste great . john: and gluten free is the big fad now. bill o'reilly says he feels great. >> i think the trouble here is we picked a particular agreement and it's been in wheat since the beginning for over 10,000 years and we have vilified that. so when you look at what science we have available for it gives us -- we don't have much scientific evidence that would suggest going off glute inis going to improve your health . john: you would think by now we would with all these people talking about it. >> you will think but if you go into a grocery store there's gluten free everywhere, and it will cater to our every if we're willing to do it . john: finally more people pay more for organic food. >> there's nothing wrong with organic, but there's a lot of

things wrong with the arguments. a very common myth is somehow organic does not use pesticides, and that's just false. organic farmers can use natural pesticides, and a lot of that like copper and sulfur, is just as toxic we humans have made. so a lot of people that believe about organic are not necessarily true. . john: there's no evidence that it's healthier. >> that's exactly right. so there have been several large-scale studies that have compared new transitional content of organic and nonorganic, and there's essentially no difference and the trouble is, though, people believe there is, they believe if they bought organic they lose wait. >> organic gummy bears is not healthy . john: coming up. why i'm proud to call myself a skeptic. if you're an adult with type 2 diabetes and your a1c is not at goal with certain diabetes pills or daily insulin your doctor may be talking about adding medication to help lower your a1c.

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. john: when i started reporting, i thought of science as passionate observers, in other words in laboratories who just care about the truth. they conduct research, and report the results and science journals which provide an extra layer of fact checking. they submit the research to other scientists, peer review it's called. and only if those scientific peers are convinced the research is accurate will the study be published. the journals reject most studies submitted, so i figured what they do publish must be true.

wrong. despite the so-called requiringous peer review, my scientist brother tom explained to me that half of what gets published turns out a few years later to be wrong. science is not as precise as i thought. sometimes the peer reviewer doesn't review very carefully and they rarely look at the original data. or they have a bias or the journal editors are just as excited about something new that fits their bias. that's probably what happened recently when that study came out showing that many opponents of gay marriage changed their minds after just talking to a gay person for 15 minutes. turns out that the researcher probably faked the study. he now says the original data has been deleted. i assume the general editors weren't that eager to double-check because the research fit their own views. scientists are just as fallible as everybody else.

and ambitious too. my brother says medical researchers will run over their grandmothers to get a appropriately ocean. still scientific conconsistencies matters saying smoking can cause heart disease, then i believe it. if a majority of climate experts say greenhouse gases are killing people and there's something we can do to fix it, something practical then i'll stop being a skeptic. until then, i'll keep asking questions. heck when i was a kid i suffered from bad science reporting, i was forced to eat spinach. my mother told me she knew it was healthy because experts said so. actually the experts said that spinach was unique in getting enough iron. and iron was a big deal back then because we didn't have iron fortified bread.

popeye's supported it for years. ♪ . john: however, it turns out that it's no better than pizza, dried peaches the extra iron claims spread off a researcher accidentally moved the decimal place one space. the media on that, and i had to eat spinach. now, moving the decimal point was an honest mistake. but errors are seldom that simple. if it would happen today i suspect the spinach lobby. businesses often twist science to get money or political activist, they do it to fit their agenda. or bureaucrats they'll do it to protect their turf or pretend they weren't wrong before. and the media, you would think we'd check we're supposed to

be skeptics, but when it comes to scares, we're really skeptical. after all the people who bring us the scares are alarmed and we're apolice department eager to rush that news to you. also we know the scarier the story, the more likely our bosses will give us more airtime. fear self, and it makes us feel important. we're saving the people from some very scary things. and that brings me back to today's obsession with global warming. >> we're going to see more floods more droughts, more wildfires . john: in 2018, abc news predicted our future. >> how much warmer is is it going to get? we don't know where the end is. >> temperatures are at a dangerous level. >> these temperatures are rising. >> there's about one billion people who are malnourished. that number just continually grows . john: but the opposite is true. fewer people are malnourished.

yes, the world is a little bit warmer but agriculturallal production is up. there are not more floods wildfires, hurricanes or droughts. yes, california has a bad drought now but they've always had them and today's is not nearly as bad as the dust bowl in the 30s. and, no, scarers never do. even though their news special got very specific, the writers predicted what life would be like now. this month. >> june 8th, 2015. >> one carton of milk is 12.99. >> gas has reached over $9 a gallon. . john: both gas and milk still cost less than $3, i asked an abc reporter if he wanted to comment. he didn't call me back. i'm gladio i would be glad to

i don't really care there anymore, and they say give us your freedom so we can protect you. that's our show. see you next >> it tonight my money and your money it has to be the root of nonsense says a treasury department suffer is a self-inflicted maliki and is because there is the shortage of of the currency. my daughter became intrigued by paper bill sky-high she would count and stack it up in one day she asked me why aren't there any girls? i said because americans hate women and.