How Far Away Is the Sun?

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"I don't want them to come out and just be more shiny, and somebody in that room get bamboozled by it. So i take them aside and im i say, so you believe in the platter," he said. "If they have a specific number, i can ask them, where did you get that number? In 99 % of a time they'll tell me exactly which you tober they heard it from."

In this episode we sit down with Joey Rodman (@okiespacequeen), a science educator in Oklahoma whose recent Twitter thread about using a portable planetarium to reach out to flat earthers went viral thanks to their counterintuitive advice about how to discuss science denial and conspiracy theories with people who may have never interacted with a scientist before.

After years of on-the-ground, one-on-one conversations, Joey has developed a technique similar to those we've discussed on the show, including street epistemology, motivational interviewing, deep canvassing, and even the socratic method. It shares elements with all of these, but was developed in-person through conversations with people who met with Joey in their communities and home towns.

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