Episode 1 - Science Alone Can't Save Us

Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric) Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones. About the episode: This first episode of the new, third series of LitSciPod sees the co-hosts reflecting on what the pandemic has taught us about the indivisible connection between the humanities and the sciences. We cover vaccine communications and vaccine hesitancy, Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s reflections on scientific truth, and books which have got us thinking. Materials discussed: Sally Frampton, ‘Vaccine scepticism is as old as vaccines themselves. Here's how to tackle it’ The Guardian (23 Feb 2021): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/23/vaccine-scepticism-how-to-tackle-it Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (Faber, 2021) Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (2021) Charlotte Sleigh, “The abuses of Popper,” Aeon (16 Feb 2021): https://aeon.co/essays/how-popperian-falsification-enabled-the-rise-of-neoliberalism What Laura & Catherine have been reading: Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (2020) Daisy Johnson, Sisters (2020) Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Fabulous (2019) Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1899) Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918) Kevin N. Laland, Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (2017)