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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Many of us are still cookin’ with gas, but should we? On this week’s On the Media, a look at why gas stoves, and the political flame-war over appliances, are back in the news. Plus, why new research says we’ve left the golden age of science and technology.

1. Paris Marx [@parismarx], the host of the podcast ‘Tech Won’t Save Us,’ and the author of ‘Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation,' on the longstanding debate on electric cars in the US, and whether they really do enough to lower carbon emissions. Listen.

2. Rebecca Leber [@rebleber], a senior reporter covering climate at Vox, on how the controversy surrounding gas stoves is nothing new, and the gas industry's long PR campaign to convince the public that "cooking was gas" is just better. Listen.

3. William Broad [@WilliamJBroad], a science journalist and senior writer at The New York Times, on new research published in Nature that suggests that our mad sprint for scientific breakthroughs has slowed significantly, and what this might mean for science. Listen.

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0:00.0	You're not taking our gas stoves away from us.
0:05.0	Coming up on this week's on the media,
0:07.0	fights over the future of fossil fuel powered, durable goods,
0:11.0	generates a whole lot of hot air all the way to the state house.
0:16.0	Get this Wyoming is proposing a bill to ban new sales of electric vehicles.
0:22.0	EVs may be making the news, but they're far from a new idea.
0:26.0	There have been a few other moments through the 20th century where it looked like electric vehicles were going to take off,
0:33.0	you know, in the 1970s in particular in the oil shop then.
0:36.0	Plus, disruptive leaps in science have given way to small incremental steps.
0:42.0	Why?
0:43.0	The media are complicit.
0:45.0	We've conditioned the public to see science as an accumulation of facts and discoveries,
0:50.0	but real science, it's mostly ideas and concepts.
0:54.0	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:06.0	Now when you think of electric cars,
1:08.0	you might think of the long-towarded benefits to the environment.
1:11.0	And likely Tesla, whose famous CEO, continued to make headlines this week for not Twitter.
1:19.0	Opening arguments kicked off today in the securities fraud trial of Tesla, CEO Elon Musk.
1:24.0	Well, actually for Twitter.
1:26.0	It's over tweets from 2018 where Musk claimed he secured funding to take Tesla private.
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