Episode Details

Freelance science journalist Tim Requarth joins the TWiVers to explain why scientists should stop thinking that explaining science will fix  information illiteracy.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Tim Requarth

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Links for this episode

• Neuwrite
• JMBE science communication issue
• Smallpox vaccination day
• The problem with facts (Fin Times)
• Countering antivaccination attitudes (PNAS)
• Effective messages in vaccine promotion (Pediatrics)
• Science curiosity and political information processing (Political Psychol)
• Teaching science using pseudoscience (D. Duncan)
• Letters read on TWiV 442

Weekly Science Picks

Kathy - Life Saver Lightning
Alan - Model rocket engine burning in slow-mo
Rich - scistarter
Vincent - The quest to wipe out a virus and FCC Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality

Listener Pick

Robert - Zika presentation

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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