The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey
In which the dinosaurs go extinct and 66 million years later people get angry about it.
What killed the dinosaurs? Maybe you think you know.
Many others thought they knew. They saw hundreds of years of scientific progress, shifting paradigms, and explosive arguments behind them, and decided they were at the end. The K-Pg extinction was settled. Then it exploded again. And again. And it kept exploding way more than any layperson today really appreciates, revealing more about science and its communication than you ever imagined.
This is the story of the mass extinction debates.
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0:00 - Intro
5:17 - Part I: The End
28:40 - Part II: The Record of the Rocks
47:46 - Part III: A Sudden Violent and Unusual Event
1:18:29 - Part IV: Exterminate All Dinosaurs With This One Weird Trick!
1:46:42 - Part V: Confessions of a YouTuber
2:10:05 - Credits
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LINKS MENTIONED
Recent review about the dinosaurs’ extinction:
Jefferson’s mammoth cheese:
Darren Naish on another palaeontological paradigm dust-up:
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Michael J. Benton on the history of the dinosaurs’ extinction:
The Alvarez paper on asteroids:
The Vogt paper on volcanoes:
My Pythagoras video:
Neil Halloran’s video on nuclear winter:
Kyle Hill’s video on YouTube science spam:
Elisabeth S. Clemens on the debates:
Interview with William Glen:
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Raw data from my survey is available here:
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