Scott Hamilton Kennedy: Fighting Misinformation with Documentaries

October 5, 2020

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Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Our guest this week is director, writer and producer Scott Hamilton Kennedy. We met Scott at the 2019 NSTA conference in St. Louis where he hosted a screening of his recent documentary “Food Evolution” (2016). Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Food Evolution” investigates GMOs to showcase how misinformation and fear can drown out rational evidence and divide communities. Scott joins us to talk about the process of making science documentaries, how he works to understand and portray the science correctly, and describes an upcoming project on vaccines.

“…the film explores all the ways science has been used and abused in public discourse surrounding the genetic engineering of food. In a world of misinformation and disinformation, nothing can be more timely.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson

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