Ask Lafayette’s Experts

Lafayette College’s faculty are distinguished scholars and educators. In this video series, our campus experts share their knowledge to help us make sense of our complicated world.

Why are people losing faith in science?

“Science, good science, doesn’t set out to prove anything— it disproves things.”

Nancy McCreary Waters, associate professor of biology

How can a political candidate “have it in the bag” according to the polls, and still lose an election?

“We don’t communicate uncertainty nearly enough. Far too often we get headlines that say, ‘This is what’s going to happen,’ or a candidate will say, ‘My plan will create 4 million jobs.’ there is no way we can know things like that with so much precision.”

Trent Gaugler, associate professor of mathematics