Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It's actually Tuesday

August 1st and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria. I apologize for not getting the

episode up on Monday.

We were wrapping up on season 2 of Bill Nye saves the world.

It was so much fun.

I can't wait for you guys to see it, but I was in the studio all day

and needed a bit more time to get this episode out.

It's going to be a really great one.

We're going to be talking to Ivan Orransky, the co-founder of Retraction Watch.

And we're going to talk a little bit of science dirt but before we dive into that I want to thank those of you who made talk nerdy

possible this week

Remember talk nerdyism will always remain 100% free to download and the only way I can do that is through the selling

of ads and through listener support like you guys and so many of you support the

show in so many ways you rate and review it on iTunes and Stitcher, you go shopping in the TalkNurdy

store which you can find at Kara Santa Maria.com and you share the podcast via social media which is just incredibly

incredibly helpful and a few if you go above and beyond and you support the

show financially if you're interested in doing so there are two ways to go about it

if you visit kara santa Maria dotcom you can find them both. The first is to use the

PayPal portal and that gives you the opportunity to do a one-time supportive payment.

So those of you who did that this week via PayPal are

Rob Schreck, Richard Mone, Mark Niles, and Diane Adams. I want to thank you guys so very much.

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