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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TWiV 442: The New York Tim