Reposting here from my SCIENCE! Facebook edition, because this is fascinating. The guest is Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science, the best damn science journalist out there.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/06/yong_on_science.html (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/06/yong_on_science.html)
Blocked. :argh!:
Will read when I get home.
Note: you can read the transcript, or you can listen to the hour long broadcast recording. I suggest the latter.