This week we talk to Terry Devitt from WhyFiles.org.
Preview from the Show:
Our primary mission is to look at what is going on in the world every
week and find some corner of the scientific enterprise that lends
itself to a public conversation about science, and then we drill down
into that, to contact the best experts that we can find to try to shed
light on those dark corners of science - the places and things that
people don't know about, and to provide more than what you're going to
get in a straight-up treatment of science than one routinely encounters
in popular media. I think it's safe to say that after we complete
our formal educations, most people only encounter science through
popular media, and so a big part of the Why Files mission is to help
people come to grips with science - what it is, why it's
important, why it makes a difference in our lives on a daily basis.
It's really essential that people in
a democracy have some understanding of how we generate knowledge,
because it impacts our lives in important ways every day.
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