the only one to find this ridiculous, one of my favorite lines, gop consultant and strategist, mike mckennaonce called that line, i'm not a scientist line, the dumbest talking point in the history of mankind. i feel pretty good about that being the title. i will stop there and say the techniques i'm talking about, most of what i wrote about, i go back in history for some of them but a lot is semi-recent examples. these techniques are very relevant. i'm not breaking any ground to say the current government is not science friendly and it is more important for all of us to hear when they are trying to get things passed. that is the point. [applause] >> i picked up your book today and it is like a field guy, let's look at cherry picking. thank you for coming. i will start my conversation with henrietta lacks because this is a story about scientists getting things wrong they don't need to get wrong which is a recurrent theme in my book and when i was a young reporter in san francisco in the 1980s there was a scientific paper published saying there i many experiments in research laboratories invo

there is a gop consultant and strategist named mike mckenna. he once called that line, the i'm not a scientist line the dumbest talking point in the history of mankind. i feel pretty good about that being the title. anyway, i will stop there and say obviously these techniques that i'm talking about most of what i wrote about, i go back into history for some of them but a lot of it is semi- recent examples. honestly these types of techniques are very relevant today. i'm not breaking any new ground to say the current government is not exactly science friendly and i think it has become ever more important for all of us to be able to hear when they are trying to get things passed us. that's kind of the point i guess. [applause] >> i just picked up your book today and it's like a field guide to political rhetoric. it's very handy. it's a good read. thank you all for coming. i will actually start my conversation as well with henrietta lacks because this is a story about scientist getting things wrong they don't need to get wrong which is a recurrent