This is the era of fake news and alternative facts. But what about fake science? This week, Communication Mixdown talks with Brisbane environment journalist Graham Readfearn about what's called predatory publishing and the way it's used to communicate climate change denialism which pretends to have scientific legitimacy and 'speak the truth' about global warming.

Then, cultural historian and writer, Maria Tumarkin explains how the current fixation for 'truth-seeking' through public forms of story-telling may be one of our culture's most misguided acts of contemporary communication.