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Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 94 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

Scientific American (SciAm) set social media on fire this week by endorsing Kam

Why are so many Americans unwilling to get a COVID-19 vaccine?

If you wanted to convince someone to skip their COVID vaccine, how would you do it? You would first insult them, emphasizing how stupid their political opinions are.

One of the biggest problems of our hyperpartisan culture is that everything has been turned into a morbid game show.

Midterm elections are often tough for the party in power. 1994 and 2010 were disastrous years for Democrats, and some political pundits think the Republicans may be facing a similar punishment in 2018.

I met a friend at a coffee shop in Seattle today. We covered a lot of ground in the short time we had together -- politics, the state of our nation, the state of our city.

Today, it seems that honest disagreement just isn't possible. Social media, which has become a sewage pipe of political hyper-partisanship and unscientific propaganda, magnifies this disturbing trend.

Nate Silver, statistician and election forecaster, said on ABC News that election

Recently, Bill Maher instructed America on the importance of knowledge.