The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) recently announced that Cited Podcast has been honoured as a finalist in the 2025 Science in Society Awards for our 2024 season, the Rationality Wars. The NASW is the premier professional organization for science journalism, and their Science in Society award recognizes investigative or interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact on society. Cited Podcast shares the honour of being finalists with the San Francisco Chronicle. STAT News won the category for their series, “Coercive Care.”
This is the third honour for the Rationality Wars. The season also received a 2025 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and it won the education category in the 2025 New York Festivals. As a small independent podcast company, we are especially proud that our programming is continually able to reach such levels of journalistic excellence–it is a testament to the strong work of our team, and the support of our partners at Canada’s National Observer and at York University’s Department of Psychology.
The season was produced by Cited Media producers Gordon Katic, Marc Apollonio, Alec Opperman, Nadeen Shaker, Jay Cockburn, and with support from producer Katy Davis and contributing editor Sandra Bartlett (Canada’s National Observer). For more on the team, visit the podcast’s about page. Additionally, we had research and consulting from leading scholars at York University’s Department of Psychology and at University of Akron’s Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. The scholarly advisor team includes: Drs. Michael Pettit, Alexandra Rutherford, Donald V. Brown, and Cathy Faye. Additionally, we had research from York University graduate students Hannie Smolyanitsky, David Berman, and Michael Stead.