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Facts vs. Feelings
Fear and Loathing and Science
Season 3 | Episode 1
Facts vs. Feelings
In this episode, we’ll hear from a particle cosmologist, along with a scholar of religion and science, on what makes people feel the way they do about scientific information and why it’s so hard to communicate about science.
Facts vs. Feelings • Season 3, Episode 1
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One of the more unexpected side effects of COVID has been the rise of a new strain of resistance to scientific information. But science denial didn’t start with COVID The rejection of scientific evidence is part of the history of science itself. How did the search for understanding and truth find itself in the crosshairs of U.S. politics?
Guests
Mark Trodden, Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics, Co-Director of the Center for Particle Cosmology, and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Donovan Schaefer, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
BONUS CONTENT
Mark Trodden discusses what research from the past 20 years has to say about the Big Bang, gravitational waves, and the expanding universe.
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Host
Alex Schein
Producer
Loraine Terrell
Editors
Alex Schein and Loraine Terrell
Interviewer
Loraine Terrell
Illustration
Dan Lee
Music
Theme music by Nicholas Escobar, C’18
Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions
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