Not a Perfect Science

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guest host Roxanne Khamsi on scientific journalism during the pandemic and beyond. Plus, naming — and soothing — our pandemic mental health crises.

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0:00.0	Every single person eventually is going to be a patient.
0:03.2	Like none of us escapes disease.
0:05.1	And so it moves all of us to get the rapid flow of information in research right.
0:10.2	The coronavirus opened the floodgates by bringing down paywalls.
0:14.3	What will happen next?
0:16.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
0:19.4	I'm Roxanne Kamsi.
0:24.2	Also on this week's show, how one unconventional database is taking on the traditional science world. Here you have this one man
0:29.7	controlling access to what's just become a vital database for researchers the world over. Plus,
0:36.0	the language of mental health.
0:37.8	Are you burnt out?
0:39.1	Breaking down?
0:40.4	Perhaps you're languishing.
0:42.2	When you're languishing, it's not depression because you still have a sense of hope.
0:46.7	It's not burnout.
0:47.6	You still have energy.
0:48.9	You just feel a little bit joyless and aimless.
0:52.0	How to describe a pandemic state of mind. Coming up after this.
0:59.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. So the show's finding a new rhythm
1:08.1	this summer. And that begins this week for two pressing reasons.
1:13.6	The first, of course, is Bob's departure. The second, less dramatic, is that I long ago made
1:19.4	plans to see my daughter in L.A. after 15 long months, and I'm going. So I'm handing off the
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