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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting February 28th.

I'm Steve Merski. This week on the podcast, who gets to speak for science? That was the subject

of a really interesting session at the recently concluded annual meeting of the American

Association for the Advancement of Science. Our own Wake Gibbs was one of the presenters,

and he'll tell us about the

session and his particular discussion. We'll also share some reader mail, and in honor of the

Oscars, we'll have a movie review. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science

in the news. First up, Wade Gibbs, Wait was a senior writer for a Scientific American for many

years. He's now a contributing editor for the magazine and is on staff at Intellectual Ventures in Seattle.

That's a company devoted to invention, founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Maven Nathan

Mirvald.

At the AAAS meeting, Wait was part of the session Who Speaks for Science, Scientific Authority,

in the 21st Century?

To find out what that was all about, I called Wait in Seattle.

Hi, Wade, how are you?

Just fine. Hi, Steve.

Hi, good to talk to you.

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