Fact and Science Fiction

Who am I? Why am I creating this podcast? This episode gives a quick background on the host and previews future topics on the show. Learn more about the real story behind sci-fi TV, books, and movies.Music: 'Heart Strings' by Coyote HearingTranscriptionWelcome to Fact and Science fiction. My name is Karly and each episode I discuss a topic or two in the real scientific field, and then discuss how my favorite science fiction portrays it, accurately or not. I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about who I am and why I decided to make this podcast, instead of maybe just a podcast discussing scifi in general. So first of all, I’m not a scientist. I went to grad school for communication, with an emphasis in health communication. And one of my main research interests was how creators or communicators explain complicated, confusing, or maybe scary science or health topics to the general public... Communicating science is messy: either you communicate all the statistics and figures and you bore everyone except ex