you have to recognize that if you take somebody like charles darwin but he started to see stuff. have you seen them like that any place else? mcfadyen evidence of evolution. >> those that survived had enough sense to break through the ceilings. see you have a career that has given its creatures the ability to adapt to the environment and i will give my creatures that ability. i don't know the answer. >> i heard people say weren't day would have been of billion but the senate -- the use a 6,000 years that it tells us how old theaters is. but also i have been police he killed and two staff we cannot do. but he could do that. >> absolutely. so you have a sense in making education? civic have never wed -- had been in since aa ability to create good nurse in diesters dash day this session. and fleur surgeons to have big egos. they will not become surgeons. so it does help to select people but i know a lot of people better incredibly carrying. >> i understand why they have a god complex they are the only one to solve a problem. matches our this comes from. >> it is unfortunate. >> host

. >> i look at the skeleton of a pigeon studied by charles darwin and i think why?>> no one really knows or takes in that darwin studied pigeons very seriously. after he got back from the galapagos. i just love the way the skeleton was in a little box and numbered. with his handwriting. >> and the lincoln's hat, the one he wore when he was assassinated. >> that's right, it had the black band for his child dying, todd dying. >> eleanor roosevelt. and valkill. >> i didn't quite get that. she had a sleeping porch. i went back three times trying to get that sleeping porch and i couldn't quite get it. the best i did was her bedroom going out to the sleeping porch. her family had to drag her in, it would be like 10° out or 0 out and she was sleeping out on that sleeping porch. >> the pictures about georgia oh keefe were powerful for you as well when you visited her home. >> i never had georgia oh keefe on my list. i felt like it would almost be too much of a stereotypical idea. i went out to abakue and walked into her studio and i was just so moved. and you know it was ju

how do we get from michael to charles darwin to a school board in america saying bill nye's a liar?. that we have the most technologically sophisticated in the world and that we have this pocket of people that doesn't accept the fundamental idea in all of life science is troubling. it and wouldn't matter except the same people work very hard to indoctrinate school kids. they spend millions of dollars. >> is it at the -- defense to the federal or tate level? >> it's on every level but every level. texas is really important. >> this is really a philosophical problem. there's a scientific method and not accepting the scientific method. >> ok, that could be a philosophical problem but it's a problem because we can't raise a generation of young people that doesn't understand critical thinking and science and how we all got here. everything here came out of some engineer's head, right? >> his name was bloomberg. >> yeah. [laughter] >> that was a shameless plug, by the way. >> put the icon up. thank you. >> and the same guys who deny evolution deny climate change. and you guys are in busin

i gather the term tankle bank was inspired by charles darwins on the origin of species and his tangle bank hypothesis. so we look to you, julia, michael and other experts on the panel to help us better understand the complicated echo systems of vaccines. thank you so much, again, for having this important discussion, this very important discussion at the national press club under the os miss sis of its journalism institute. i'm pleased to turn over the floor to julia court. >> thank you, myron. and thank you to the press club institute for hosting this briefing and thank you all for coming this morning. we're here to talk about reporting on vaccination and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and to share some insights we've gained while preparing our upcoming program "vaccines calling the shots." vaccination is a perfect topic for nova to cover because our primary mission is improving the public's understanding of science through accurate and engaging journalism. in fact, today nova and pbs are among a very small handful of places one can find good science journalism on televisi

[laughter] i think a better theory is inspired by one of my favorite things by charles darwin that manive tendency to speak as we see in the battle or young children wears no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew or right. speech is instinctive, writing is and always has been hard. the reader is a known invisible. they exist only in the writer's imagination. the reader can't break-in or reactor ask for clarification and so writing is an active act of pretense and writing is an act of craftsmanship. well classic prose gives the reader credit for knowing the concepts are hard to define and many controversies are hard to resolve. the reader is there to see what the writer is going to do about it. another corollary is to minimize the reflexive hedging that many scholars engage in, the drizzling of prose with fluffy modifiers like somewhat fairly, nearly seemingly and comparatively predominately to some extent so to speak and presumably which implies that they don't really mean what they are saying. similarly many academics tend to overuse shutter "backs. i will give an example of

i gather the term tankle bank was inspired by charles darwins on the origin of species and his tangleank hypothesis. so we look to you, julia, michael and other experts on the panel to help us better understand the complicated echo systems of vaccines. thank you so much, again, for having this important discussion, this very important discussion at the national press club under the os miss sis of its journalism institute. i'm pleased to turn over the floor to julia court. >> thank you, myron. and thank you to the press club institute for hosting this briefing and thank you all for coming this morning. we're here to talk about reporting on vaccination and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and to share some insights we've gained while preparing our upcoming program "vaccines calling the shots." vaccination is a perfect topic for nova to cover because our primary mission is improving the public's understanding of science through accurate and engaging journalism. in fact, today nova and pbs are among a very small handful of places one can find good science journalism on television