General Summary: Dr. Scott Graham talks about his article written in collaboration with Dr. Linda Walsh, “There’s No Such Thing as Scientific Controversy.” Two students from Dr. Mark Longaker’s Principles of Rhetoric course at The University of Texas at Austin ask Dr. Graham questions about the article, attempting to gain a better understanding of the intricacies of scientific controversy.

Detailed Summary: Episode introduction (00.00-0.25) Dr. Graham's work at the University of Texas at Austin with computational rhetoric (01.16-04.31); Other courses taught by Dr. Graham at UT (04.32-05.50); Overview of "There’s No Such Thing As Scientific Controversy” (06.04-07.31); Why there is so much scholarly controversy about scientific controversies? (08.02-9:50); Defining what kind of scientific controversy COVID-19 is (0.9.54-12.09); Discussing whether or not scientific controversies exist (12.55-15.50); Defining "praxiography" and how it differs from other forms of analysis of scholarly work (16.31-17.37); Conclusion and credits (18.53-19.25).

Scholarly Article Informing this Production: Graham Scott and Lynda Walsh. "There's No Such Thing as a Scientific Controversy." _Technical Communication Quarterly_ (2019): https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1571243

Credits: This podcast was produced by Zoe Howard, with resources and assistance provided by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at The University of Texas at Austin. It features the voices of Cassie Williams, Will Hunter, Dr. Scott Graham, and questions from Brandon Jenkins, Ainsley McClain, and Savannah Smart. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround,” was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and incorporated under Creative Commons 1.0 license.