We like being a little skeptical whenever reading anything. It's pretty healthy. So on today's show, we're discussing how (sometimes) Science can get muddled in the media. We've got a special guest for today's show! Popular Science magazine's contributing editor, Brooke Borel, is chatting with us today about her career as a science journalist and finding the right balance between engaging the audience AND getting the science right. Follow our guest on twitter @BrookeBorel and check out her website BrookeBorel.com.

(Ep. 04) Mercury Man: An 18th Century Lymphatic Study

This is a podcast where people can see the different sides of Science that most laypersons aren’t exposed to. With Science did WHAT?!, I want to show you how science permeates everything we do, how it can cover the study of anything and everything, how it can be both tedious and exciting, how muddled and filled with mistakes it can be, how nonlinear the pursuit of knowledge this path is, and how the path to a career in the scientific world isn’t the same for everyone.
In all that I can remember experiencing and in what I’ve seen with other scientists, it’s not just the wonder of the final product (i.e., knowledge and facts found in textbooks) that inspired us to dabble in science; it was having seen a window into the scientific process. That was the gateway into falling in love with science — at least for me it was. Science did WHAT?! is my attempt at paying that forward.