STAT News – Biotech
What growing up in an end-times church taught a science communicator about dispelling misinformation
Belief systems, turns out, can be like dams. However established, they can’t survive even the smallest crack: slowly, but inexorably, if somehow a small seed of doubt makes its way through, one drop becomes a trickle that becomes a jet and takes the whole thing down.
For Paul Martin Jensen, a health and science communications specialist, the first crack were snakes. “I love snakes. For whatever reason, snakes are my favorite animal,” he told STAT last week during the Breakthrough Summit East in New York City. “When I was really little it was one of the first words I learned how to write. I just really loved them as an animal, I thought they were fascinating.”