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The Best Of Our Knowledge

Too much TV and cancerous catfish

By Lucas Willard
Published August 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department
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Joseph Tomerelli
A brown bullhead catfish

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.

You may have been told when you were a kid, “If you keep watching that TV, you’ll rot your brain!”

There might be some truth to that.
And we’ll learn about a transmissible cancer found in a common catfish.
 

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Lucas Willard is a news reporter and host at WAMC Northeast Public Radio, which he joined in 2011. He produces and hosts The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party.
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