Safeguarding Sound Science
Episodes
Star Trek Meets Evolutionary Biology (And Good Things Happen)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Star Trek is one of the greatest science fiction universes ever created, spawning 12 main television series and 13 movies over the last 60 years. Who ...
Teaching Evolution: Challenges, Progress, and the Road Ahead
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The understanding of evolution has had a profound positive effect on human existence, from medical advancements to conservation biology, as we have he...
Darwin's Reach: How Evolution Shapes Our World Today
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Invasive cancers. Antibiotic resistance. Agricultural biodiversity. To better understand these and many other pressing issues of our times, we need t...
Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe not, according to Todd Disotell, a biological anthropologist and science communicator from the University of Massachusetts. Among his many resea...
Let's Talk About Sex (Scientifically)
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything in our lives is related to sex, in one way or another. So says Carin Bondar, one of today's guests. Bondar, a biologist, author, and philos...
Baked, Steamed, and Frozen: Human Body Evolution in Changing Environments
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the flop of a movie, Waterworld, Kevin Costner's character (spoiler alert!) develops gills as an adaptation to a flooded planet altered by climate...
What Darwin Got Wrong ... and Very Right!
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Darwin is one of the most recognizable names in science. His On the Origin of Species is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary bi...
Human Evolution: Uncovering our Origins
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know the t-shirt, right? The one that shows the progression from a monkey to a human? In this episode of Safeguarding Sound Science, we talk with ...
Peter Hotez on Vaccines, Evolution, and Your Health
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccine skepticism and efforts to curb vaccine access are in the news almost daily. This despite the fact that for decades, vaccines have saved millio...
Safeguarding Sound Science Season 2: Evolution Edition
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The second season of Safeguarding Sound Science from The National Center for Science Education examines the everyday impacts of evolution, the grand t...
The New Face of Climate Denial: Online Influencers
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like nearly everything ever created by humans, social media can be used for good or evil. The same goes for podcasting and other streaming media sho...
Hope in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Youth Activism and Leadership
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Though climate change represents a clear and present danger for all of us, it is young people who will suffer the most if we don't mitigate global war...
Making Every Classroom a Climate Classroom
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do teachers want and need to know about teaching climate change? And how can they best be prepared to tackle this critical topic, even in places ...
Today's Forecast: Climate Change, Trusted Sources, and a Sprinkling of Local Relevance
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a warming world, poison ivy is becoming bigger and itchier. That's the kind of personally relevant message that resonates with everyone, and helps ...
Zombie Theories Must Die! A Conversation with Climate Communicator Marshall Shepherd
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nationally recognized meteorologist, scientist, and author J. Marshall Shepherd describes zombie climate theories as those that live on, no matter how...
Miseducation in the USA: How Our Kids Are Too Often Denied Climate Facts
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning journalist Katie Worth spent time in schools around the country talking to teachers and students as she attempted to understand the land...
A Century of Disinformation: Naomi Oreskes and the Merchants of Doubt
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her critically acclaimed books, Merchants of Doubt and The Big Myth, Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes argues that well-funded interest groups have ...
What Climate Change? Michael Mann and Glenn Branch on the Climate Deniers
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists nearly unanimously agree that the planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and that humans are the cause. We see evidence of climate cha...