How Bad Does It Have to Get?

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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“Climate change at warp speed” is the way one scientist described the coronavirus outbreak. In a show recorded before a live audience at the Seattle AAAS meeting, and co-presented with the BBC World Service, we discuss out how politics and psychology lead people to tune out inconvenient scientific findings even when the stakes are high – as well as what we can do about it. Guests: Roland Pease – BBC reporter, presenter of “Science in Action.” Lee McIntyre – Philosopher and Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and author of “The Scientific Attitude” and “Post-Truth” Reyhaneh Maktoufi – Civic Science Fellow with NOVA PBS at station WGBH, with a focus on science communication Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.2	Shostak. I'm Molly Bentley and if Seth and I sound different you know why. We cannot
1:21.0	get to our studio. So hello from my home where I swear that I'm not
1:25.5	wearing daytime pajamas and now you're listening to the acoustics of my den
1:29.9	Molly and I have decided to practice some extra safe social distancing and keep not six feet,
1:36.3	but 60 miles apart. Our producers, Gary Niederhoff and Sarah Derwin, are similarly distant, and by that I don't mean that they're aloof, but we are all still here creatively, if not physically, and committed to putting out new episodes of Bicketer Science for you as best we can, when we can,
1:55.2	and getting innovative if we have to, which we've already begun to do as you're about to hear.
2:00.3	We are committed to stay nimble in this changing situation.
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