Issues in science are often misrepresented by the mainstream media, to the despair of scientists and educators. NICHOLAS KAMENIAR-SANDERY spoke to two people who have been at the forefront of educating the public to think scientifically and combat propaganda for anti-science views, which includes climate change and vaccination. Professor Peter Doherty is an Australia Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has written a series of books on how to think scientifically, including The Knowledge Wars. James Hoggan is the founder of DeSmogBlog, a website dedicated to combating anti-science propaganda on the issue of climate change. 

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Producer/presenter: Nicholas Kameniar-Sandery is a third-year arts/science student at Monash. He has a passion for public education and science communication. He recommends The Health Report and The Science Show as the most interesting Australian science podcasts.
@n_kameniar_s

Interviewee: Professor Peter Doherty shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells. He was Australian of the Year in 1997. He is also a National Trust Australian Living Treasure.
@ProfPCDoherty

Interviewee: Jim Hoggan is an author and co-founder of the website DeSmogBlog. He is also president of Vancouver-based public relations firm Hoggan and Associates, the chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, has served as a trustee of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education and is the former chair of Climate Project Canada.
desmogblog.com, @james_hoggan