The battlelines are drawn, brains tuned, arguments sharpened and teeth gnashing as two teams go head to head at Beaker Street Festival. Your fearless adjudicator, Science Friction host Natasha Mitchell, cannot and will not be bribed*.

(*Except with wombats).

This episode of ABC Radio National’s Science Friction was recorded live at Beaker Street Festival in Tasmania.

Listen here.

On the Affirmative team

Meow Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow
Biohacker
Founder of Australia’s first open access molecular biology lab, BioFoundry.

Zoe Kean
BeakerSt@TMAG alumni, science communicator, and ABC Science cadet.

Professor Mike Archer
Paleontologist
University of New South Wales

On the Negative team

Bernie Hobbs
Award winning science writer and presenter
ABC Science

Dr Lee Ann Rollins
Invasive species geneticist
University of New South Wales

Dr Barbara Holland
Mathematician
School of Natural Sciences
University of Tasmania