As members of society, students must be able to evaluate scientific claims across a wide variety of media to make sound decisions about health and wellness. However, students - and most members of society - struggle to evaluate the quality of evidence supporting a scientific claim. The goal of this lesson is to empower students to recognize unethical and/or overstated scientific claims. Towards this end, the lesson plan contains a combination of pre-class work, analysis of a TED video, group dis…