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Token Skeptic #64 - On Tribal Science – Interview With Michael McRae
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:40:07
Publish Date: 2011-04-03 23:00:00
Description: Thanks to everyone who has continued to subscribe and check out the show during the technical-issues hiatus! Here's to getting more content out and I'm looking forward to your continued feedback. :) Science is a tribal endeavor. It’s a social behavior humans engage in, one that is based on shared values of logic, reason, empiricism and the right to debate the merits of belief. What are the ideals of the science methodology and what is the reality of how people actually use (or don’t use) their brains? Michael McRae is an Australian science writer working for the CSIRO’s education department. He graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science from QUT and followed this with several years as a medical scientist working for a Queensland pathology laboratory. With a Bachelor of Education in science and mathematics, Michael taught in Brisbane and then London. In 2006 he earned a Diploma of Science Communication via the joint ANU/Questacon ‘Science Circus’ program, and he is currently reading for his Masters in Culture, Health and Medicine at ANU. In addition to all of that, he’s presented public talks on science history and philosophy, optical illusions, skepticism, communication and the nature of epistemology. He’s appeared twice before on the Token Skeptic podcast and his first book, ‘Tribal Science – Brains, Beliefs and Bad Ideas‘ is due for release in early 2011 through University Of Queensland Press. The site for Michael's blog is www.tribalscience.wordpress.com. This show is available on Zune, mp3 via Libsyn or iTunes. Visit www.tokenskeptic.org – and I’d love to get your feedback at tokenskeptic@gmail.com. Theme songs are 'P&P' by Derek K Miller of www.penmachine.com and '365' by Milton Mermikides, of www.miltonmermikides.com.
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