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How science sparks the ideas of filmmaker Steven Soderbergh

Science is tightly woven into Steven Soderbergh’s work, from 2011’s pandemic disaster film “Contagion” to a new TV series titled “The Knick,” which trails a pioneering surgeon in the early 20th century. “Medicine I think, almost more than any other sort of endeavor or field, really generates a lot of magical thinking,” Soderbergh told STAT’s Dylan Scott. “I’m interested in that collision between hope, science, experimentation, evidence, and magical thinking.” Soderbergh talks about medicine as his muse, how he sees science as simultaneously rational and irrational, and what happened when he popped some brain-enhancing pills — read here.