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Hello everyone welcome to the Mindscape podcast I'm your host Sean Carroll. I don't know how many of you remember or have this recollection, but back in the early days of like blogging and social media, there was this question of whether or not there was still a place

for science journalism in the world, since after all you had scientists who could now just

start up their blog and talk about whatever it is they wanted to do.

And the answer is yes, you still do need science journalists and you need political

journalists and legal journalists and economic journalists, you need journalists who are experts in what they're doing.

If only because professional journalists have an obligation to be fair, to think about everything that is going on in the field they're covering and

explain it to the people who are reading or watching or listening in an unbiased,

overarchingly fair way.

Whereas the individual researchers, they're going to talk about what they personally think is cool.

So in fact, I think you need both.

It's great to have professional researchers being able to reach broad

audiences in whatever way they can. You also need professional journalists to set a wider stage and make sure that nothing falls between the cracks.

So I say this because I am a person who is a professional researcher, but I also have public outreach, public facing aspects of what I do, including this

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