Wendy Zukerman

Zukerman was born in the United States but raised in Melbourne, Australia. She attended Monash University and received a biomedical science and law degree.[1][2] Her brother is actor Ashley Zukerman, and they were raised Jewish.[3]

She has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on the documentary television program, Catalyst, and the consumer affairs television programThe Checkout.[4] Additionally, she has written for many different publications including New Scientist magazine,[5] Cosmos magazine,[6] The Age, The Australian, and Saturday Paper.[4][7]

In 2014 and 2015, she spoke at Storyology, an annual festival of journalism and media.[1] In March 2018, she spoke at a SXSW, in a panel event called, "What Podcasts Ate for Dinner".[8][9]

Since October 2015, her podcast Science Vs has been produced by Gimlet Media, a Brooklyn-based digital media company.[10][11][12] The show was previously produced and distributed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as part of ABC Radio's First Run podcast program.[13][14] The podcast works on communicating science to non-scientists. The show takes a myth-busting approach, and topics on the show generally come from controversial topics or current events. Episode topics have included immigration, gun control, ghosts, climate change, acne, and antidepressants, among others.[14][15][16][17] Zukerman has said that the idea for Science Vs came from news headlines about Gwyneth Paltrow wanting women to participate in a "health practice" of vaginal steaming, which she thought could combine science with humor.[18] Zukerman summarized her podcast's position against false equivalences, saying, "If there's a 95 percent consensus among scientists, you report the consensus."[15]

• Wendy Zukerman at IMDb
• "Gimlet | Science Vs - All Episodes". gimletmedia.com. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
• "People want facts - Wendy Zukerman at Storyology 2015 on Vimeo". vimeo.com. Retrieved 12 April 2018.