Flora Lichtman was the host of the podcast Every Little Thing. She’s a former Science Friday multimedia producer.

Annette Heist is a former senior producer for Science Friday.

Ryan Mason is a fourth-year medical student at Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Deborah Blum is the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She’s the author of The Poisoner’s Handbook (Penguin, 2010) and The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Penguin Press, 2018).