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My comedic co is Eugene Merman, Eugene.

Hello.

Star Talk veteran. Yes. Yes. Welcome back.

And Jeff Jarvis. Jeff.

You're a professor of journalism at the City University of New York.

At CUNY Graduate School. Yes. Yes.

And this is not the first time I've ever seen a professor in the world.

And this is not your first rodeo with us. I am honored to be back.

Well, no, we love having you because journalism is such a big part of what we think of as today's culture and society.

And we're going to be relying on your expertise tonight because, of course, my interview is with Katie Korrick.

And let me ask you something. I speak as a scientist that our goal is the search for what is objectively true.

And it seems to me that would be what a journalist seeks. Would you agree?

It should be in theory, but life's too complicated, I think. And we're not as smart as you.

Well, so, but clearly there's resonance between the two, at least in principle.

What hopes that we become more fact-based than we are today?

So I asked Katie whether her early life experience in school, whether her classes in science might have knowing that science is trying to find out what is real in the world,

whether that had any effect on her becoming a journalist. So let's check it out.

Were there any memories good or bad with science teachers, math teachers?

Oh, yeah, actually a bad memory because Miss Poland was my eighth grade science teacher.

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