Denialism: The Video

Last April I participated in a panel at MIT with The New Yorker'sMichael Specter (the author of Denialism; on Point of Inquiry here), The Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam, and the New America Foundation's Shannon Brownlee. We were discussing why America has such problems with science--and whether we can ever be more rational. Well, the video's now up, I see, so I thought I'd link and paste it in--I thought it was a pretty good discussion: