“The Mistrust of Science” by Atul Gawande is a commencement address at the California Institute of Technology. Atul Gawande calls upon the institutes graduates to take a stance and defend the common misconceptions and myths about scientific issues concerning today’s society. The commencement’s main goal was to use a logical thought process to defend the scientific evidence against common misconception. For example, Atul Gawande says “They deploy false analogies and other logical fallacies… when scientists produce one level of certainty; the pseudoscientists insist they achieve another.” Atul claims that pseudoscientists deploy a poor sense of logical reasoning to mislead the public, which cannot be backed up by hard scientific evidence. Furthermore,
