Evidence Squared
Summary: Evidence Squared explores the science of science communication, the evidence into talking about evidence. Co-hosts are John Cook, a cognitive scientist at the Center for Climate Change Communication and Peter Jacobs, a PhD student studying climate and its impacts at George Mason University.
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Emily Vraga has researched how advocacy affects a scientists’ credibility (spoiler alert: it doesn’t necessarily). She joins us as co-host to discuss her research and it’s implications for the upcoming March on Science. Links from this episode 2017 paper by John
We preview the upcoming hearing on Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications, and the Scientific Method. We also discuss Lamar Smith’s speech at the Heartland Institute conference, previewing the hearing. Techniques used to cast doubt on climate science Lamar Smith vouches for Trump’s climate
We examine the topic of consensus messaging – communicating the expert agreement on climate change. We interview Tony Leiserowitz from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication who has conducted leading research into the psychology of consensus and how to communicate it. Links
We examine Scott Pruitt’s denial of the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, both in a CNBC interview and in his hearing for head of the EPA. We also turn our gaze on Bernie Sander’s characterization of the consensus and
In our inaugural episode of Evidence Squared, we explore both co-hosts’ journey from a physical science background to an interest in the social science of science communication. Then we talk to cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky, whose fateful email introduced John
