Last week I participated in a panel discussion on 'The Agenda with Steve Paikin.' The evening's show was called The Assault On Science so obviously it wasn't complete sansChris. Topics included climate change, the theory of evolution, science in the media, and religion (complete with a clip from 'Expelled'). My co-panelists were nice enough fellows, though I disagreed with climate change denier Lawrence Solomon, and philosphy professor James Robert Brown who believes science and religion are always incompatible. The other guests were science reporter Arthur Allen, author of Vaccine: the Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver and Jason Wiles of the Evolution Education Research Centre. Our discussion was fun and a good opportunity for me to experience what it's like to be beamed in via satellite. Turns out you can't actually see anyone you're speaking with and voices come in through a little ear mic... altogether an extremely different experience than radio. (
I felt like Guy Montag with Faber's green bullet-shaped ear-piece
). It was a little strange at the start, but by the end I was more comfortable which is reflected in the video. Overall, it was a great premise, but the show tried to touch on too many topics from different perspectives in the time we had. Take a look...
