The Importance of Interviews in Vaccine Rhetoric

Joss Fong is a senior editorial producer at Vox. She produces science videos on a variety of topics, pushing the medium in ever more creative directions to convey interesting and important ideas.

We spend a lot of our time talking about her most recent video: "How American conservatives turned against the vaccine"

Here are some of the other videos we talked about in this episode:

• "Does Megalodon still exist? Shark Week debunked"
• “Are We Automating Racism?” (Glad You Asked series)
• "The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts"
• Why the James Webb Space Telescope looks like that

All of Joss’ videos for Vox are available in this YouTube playlist.

Also, Joss mentioned a great animation-based science channel on YouTube: Kurzgesagt

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