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BeckyKleitz t1_jdj6kao wrote

Oh now see...I like Science Friday. I hate it that I've missed it again today. :(

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headgasketidiot OP t1_jdj7khe wrote

It's not a bad show per se. I like listening to the cool shit people are doing. I myself do R&D at private companies for a living, and I think some of the stuff I've made is pretty cool. But it does very uncritically report on the R&D of private companies while avoiding the greater context in which they're being made, and clearly views private companies in the market as the vessel through which technology progresses, and humanity with it.

I think they could do with a dose of critical theory every now and then, especially when they start talking about medical technologies. Those can get pretty hard to listen to.

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