Baloney Detection with Dr. K

Episode 22 – On Politics and Chicken Soup When you are deeply angry about a certain subject, but you know that getting into conversations with others could be controversial and acrimonious, what do you do? I have been struggling with this very thing for a long time now, and I am just realizing that I have to engage with that anger, with those controversies, rather than just shy away and stay away from the difficult conversations. Taking a break from interviews, in this episode I spend a bit of time going through some recent thoughts, trying to convince myself I am going in the right direction with how I deal with misinformation and pseudoscience. Do not worry: this is not an existential crisis, just more of an important level of pondering. View the transcript for this episode.

Baloney Detection Episode 21 - Jodi Pierre InterviewJodi Pierre is a research and instruction librarian at the University of Wisconsin‐Green Bay, where she specializes in information literacy, instruction, research assistance, and web and digital content design. She earned a Master of Library and Information Science from UW Milwaukee and a Bachelor of Arts from Beloit College. Jody has been with the University of Wisconsin‐Green Bay since 2016. Jodi shares some interesting and important information about the use of AI and how it is changing rapidly. This is a very important conversation and one that we will be continuing into the future as AI evolves. View the transcript for this episode.

Baloney Detection Episode 20 -  Stephanie Evenson InterviewStephanie Evenson is a veterinarian and a teaching professor for the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. Stephanie has a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Masters degree in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Stephanie has been a colleague of mine at the Sheboygan campus of UW-Green Bay for many years, teaching a variety of biology, human biology, first-year seminar and general education courses. I have had many students tell me how much they love Stephanie as a teacher and I can think of no higher praise for an educator. Stephanie has a unique perspective to her teaching as a vet and brings that perspective to today’s episode. View the transcript for this episode.

Baloney Detection Episode 19 - Jeff Bellomo InterviewJeff Bellomo is a successful lawyer in South Central Pennsylvania. He also happens to be, as I said, one of my oldest and best friends. In our senior year at Juniata, Jeff was kind of the odd man out. He was a future lawyer living with three chemists slash scientists, but he also provided so much support, which hopefully we'll get to talk about. Jeff's expertise as a lawyer is an elder law, which we can all agree is incredibly important for families with older members and families in general. Jeff has created his own podcast, the Red Wagon Estate Planning and Elder Law Show, with the intent of having another platform for educating people about the right way to get legal help, especially for elder law. On top of being an outstanding lawyer and friend and parent, it is Jeff's desire to educate a variety of people about elder law and has given me so much respect for him and inspiration for this podcast. View the transcript for this episode.

Baloney Detection Episode 18 - Dr. Brian Merkel InterviewDr. Brian Merkel has been with UW Green Bay for 20 years and teaches courses courses in immunology, advanced microbiology, microbiology, and human disease in society. He currently studies the effects of the herbal supplement echinacea on the immune system in cell models and in human subjects. He's a pre‐health advisor for human biology and biology students and the advisor for UW Green Bay's chapter of the National Biological Honor Society, TriBeta. He also teaches medical students for the Medical College of Wisconsin in Green Bay. Dr. Merkel says that this experience has helped him become a better mentor, advisor, and teacher for all of the students he works with at UW Green Bay. I'd like to also add that Brian has recently won the UW Green Bay Founders Award for Excellence in Teaching for Faculty. Personally, Dr. Merkel is part of a couple of groups that I'm involved with, including a misinformation research group with several of our other colleagues, and also a set of rural health forums that we are a part of led by a friend of the podcast and former interviewee Amanda Hartlaub. View the transcript for this episode.

Baloney Detection: Episode17 -- Interview with Jessica Warwick Jessica Warwick is an instructor at UW-Green Bay who teaches a variety of General Education, introductory and majors level classes. She also does research where data analysis is incredibly important. Our conversation went from teaching styles to research data analysis and adjusting to the rapidly changing student population. It is always a joy to have such an incredibly conversation with one of my colleagues. View this episode's transcript.