A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie
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We'll be back!
Hello everyone! We know we just had a long gap where we failed to put any podcasts out and only just got back in the swing of things, but I’m afraid we’re taking another one. This time we’re trying to be better about it though.
Stuart is...
Paid-only episode 30: Cancer screening
"Screen time", but not like that
It seems like the most obvious thing in the world: if you do more cancer screening, you’ll catch tumours early and people will be better off. Former Top Gear presenter and current farmer Jeremy Clarkson rec...
Episode 103: Medical Hypotheses
It sounds like a good idea in theory: a non-peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to pure scientific creativity. Send in your craziest hypotheses and as long as they’re original ideas, the editor will publish them, and let them inspire...
Episode 102: Why We Sleep
In 2017, Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep became a huge bestseller. It said, among other things, that we are living through an epidemic of sleeplessness, that the less we sleep the sooner we die, and that sleeping less than six hours a night d...
Paid-only episode 29: HIV/AIDS denial
Paying him his Dues(berg)
Earlier this year we lost one of the WOATs of bad science: Peter Duesberg, the Berkeley professor who originated nearly all the arguments of the AIDS denial movement. Duesberg was convinced that HIV was just a har...
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"Far too nice to be a journalist": Terry Pratchett. Science writer at Semafor, email chiversthomas(a)gmail. Latest book, How To Read Numbers, out now
Research Comms lead at Anthropic; Former Academic; Monthly Substack Updater
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