I'm Alan Alda, and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

Here we come with season 32, and it's a really good season. I'm so excited about these.

The shows we've recorded so far, aren't you, Graham?

It's a rich season of connecting and communicating, I think.

And even in this brief glimpse of some of our early shows,

the topics range from giggling babies to Ig Nobel Prizes,

which are awards for scientific research that makes you giggle,

and then think.

And then there's a reunion with Marlowe Thomas, who got you into one of your first movies almost 60 years ago, and a deep dive into what is truth in an age corrupted by deliberate

disinformation. And we begin with a man who's taking a witty and creative approach to just

their problem, with a steady stream of videos on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, which have garnered

millions of views. Millions, I'm so impressed with how many views he's got talking in such

a engaging way about something that a lot of people think is too complicated to get into.

He's PhD medical researcher Dr. Morgan McSweeney, better known to his fans as Dr. Knock,

who's found his own way to communicate about science and medicine.

First, I should say it is an uphill battle.

It's not the default outcome from science

communication, I should say. It's not the way that we're trained to present science in graduate

school. My PhDs in pharmaceutical sciences. In graduate school, you get a lot of training on

presenting mostly to scientists. And the assumptions are if the data are high enough know, the methods are good enough, that basically decisions will make themselves.

And often that is true if you're speaking to an audience of scientists or physicians or whatever it might be.

It's a totally different ballgame once you step into what I think of now as the real world.

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