Science Facts & Fallacies
Cameron English
4.3from 43 ratings
- 116
- Episodes
- 105
- Transcribed
- 43
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Science Facts & Fallacies
From CRISPR gene-edited embryos to GMO crops, biotechnology is revolutionizing medicine and farming. Scientists are increasingly able to make targeted genetic tweaks to humans, plants and animals to combat our most urgent global challenges—including hunger, disease, aging and climate change. Sadly, scientific misinformation spreads like cancer through social media and partisan blogs. Where can you turn for trustworthy analysis of groundbreaking biotechnology innovations independent of ideological bias? Who can you trust? Join the Genetic Literacy Project and our world-renowned experts as we explore the brave new world of human genetics, biomedicine, farming and food.
- Publisher
- Cameron English
- Category
- education · news · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
105 of 116 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Facts & Fallacies podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it
20 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Facts & Fallacies podcast: ‘Regenerative farming’? RFK Jr.’s federal push romanticizes the past and risks food security
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Facts & Fallacies podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] His private practice in 2010 got to be so expensive that, not in 2010, this was later, but it, The requirements that the government had put on his private practice got so expensive that he netted $48,000 as his income in a year after all of his expenses were paid. And he was near retirement age. So it became, with all of the requirements that doctors had to live up to, it became cost prohibitive to be able to have your own private practice. Now, if you think about medical students graduating from medical school and incurring in the neighborhood of $350,000 to $400,000 worth of debt, They're, one, not going to go into a primary care residency often because the primary care residency, the income at the back end of that, three or four years, is not going to be able to offset the cost of those loans. […]
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- Kevin Folta
- Dr Elizabeth Weiss
- Cliff Douglas
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 26 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 17 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 89
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