Backchat March 2019: Calls for a research moratorium, and the evolution of science reporting

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🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this month’s roundtable, our reporters discuss calls to pause heritable genome-editing research, and how science journalism has changed in the past 20 years.

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0:00.0	On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me
0:03.9	Rip up the chariot
0:05.6	Forget about the telly
0:07.6	Let's play scratch cards
0:11.1	Coins out to scratching
0:12.6	Everybody laughing better not be cheating
0:15.3	And the chance to win a pound or three
0:18.2	Add some play to Christmas
0:20.1	With scratch cards from the National Lottery. Please gift
0:23.1	responsibly rules and procedures apply. Players and gifters must be 18 or over. And they're just to win a pound
0:28.0	or three. Hello and welcome to Backchat. If the regular nature podcast is a fresh-faced young
0:36.6	journalism student, then Backchat is very
0:39.1	much a grizzled hack.
0:41.1	This week on the show, we've got a panel of guests from across the globe, and we'll be talking
0:45.2	about genome editing and the role of science reporting in the 21st century.
0:50.4	I'm Benjamin Thompson, and joining me in the studio are David Sironoski.
0:54.1	Hi, Ben. I am the Asia-Pacific correspondent for Nature based in Shanghai.
0:58.9	Alison Abbott.
0:59.9	Hi Ben, I report for nature from Munich in Germany.
1:03.6	And Heidi Ledford.
1:04.6	Hi, I'm Heidi Ledford.
1:05.6	I'm a biomedical reporter in London.
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