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Welcome to Science Counterpunch, a short, punchy brand for a YouTube‑first podcast that combines hard evidence, frontline scientist testimony, and rapid rebuttal clips to expose anti‑science influencers and actors while centering science and experts who’ve been targeted.
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Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
68 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
26 episodes
since March 15, 2024
episodic
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Biosafety rarely ends at the lab door, and biosecurity coverage gives us scary headlines but wrong perceptions. Right now, bird flu is spreading through a Utah mink farm, while officials scramble without a response plan. Meanwhile, Washington is busy fighting boogeyman of the last pandemic’s origin…
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I´m not going to lie. It often feels impossible to keep on top of things these days, between career, raising two young kids, health challenges and just trying to function, the day has few hours left to think about what I can do to make a difference in public discourse, or just as a citizen with a d…
Is a cosmic rock truly an alien spaceship that the government does not want you to know about? Misrepresentations of scientific inquiry or hypotheses often aren’t an accident, but a structural by‑product of how curiosity, media incentives, and speculation collide. Space science, especially the sear…
Anti-science isn’t a bug in the modern information ecosystem—it’s the feature. Today’s secular gurus don’t need robes or rituals; they wield academic credentials, technical jargon, and a galaxy-brained confidence that turns YouTube, Twitter, and podcasts into pulpits. Their gospel? That institution…
Modern authoritarianism doesn’t arrive with tanks. It announces itself with spreadsheets, budget cuts, accreditation fights, and the quiet capture of institutions most people barely notice—until they’re gone.
This week on Science Counterpunch, we’re joined by Professor Christina Pagel, Professor of…
What happens when fringe anti-vaxxers move from fleecing online communities to the highest halls of power?
This week on Science Counterpunch, we’re joined by Dr. Dan Wilson, molecular biologist and creator of the Debunk the Funk YouTube Channel, to dissect how anti‑vaccine narratives became mainstr…
In this episode of Science Counterpunch, we welcome epidemiologist, MacArthur Fellow, and lifelong AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves to talk about what happens when politics is at odds with public health.
Gregg was on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic with ACT UP in the 1990s, helping force institut…
Ancient aliens. Lost Ice Age civilizations. Atlantis hidden under the pyramids.
Pseudo-archaeology is having a moment—and it’s not just harmless fun.
In this episode of Science Counterpunch, we step into the ring with archaeologist Flint Dibble and science YouTuber Kayleigh Dunning to break down ho…
You can’t fact-check your way out of a system designed to amplify lies.
This week on Science Counterpunch, we’re joined by cognitive psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky to dissect the machinery of modern disinformation. We explore why falsehoods leave a cognitive footprint — and why even highly educat…
Protest isn’t radical. Silence is.
This week on Science Counterpunch, we’re joined by Colette Delawalla, clinical psychology PhD candidate and founder of Stand Up for Science, for a furious, clear-eyed breakdown of how American science is being dismantled in real time—and why scientists can’t affor…
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