A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie
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Unpaywalled: The science of Johann Hari
We are sorry we’ve been missing so many episodes recently! Stuart’s been busy and Tom’s been… also busy. We’re busy. Hopefully back to normal service next week.
In the meantime, here’s an old paid episode, unpaywalled. Apologies.
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Joha...
Episode 100: Replication, replication, replication
We made it: triple figures! And as luck would have it, Nature just simultaneously published four major meta-science papers that are right up our street. Aw. Thanks, Nature. You shouldn’t have.
How screwed is social/behavioural science? We...
Episode 99.5: Candidate genes
Here’s another one for the annals of “entire scientific field becomes totally misguided for decades”. How could it have been possible that so many scientists fell for the idea of candidate genes—that there were individual gene variants that...
Episode 99: Power posing
For a while in the early-to-mid 2010s, the most prominent psychology research in the world was on power posing. Harvard’s Amy Cuddy did a TED talk that reached tens of millions; her exhortation to “fake it til you make it” struck a chord an...
Paid-only episode 28: Tourette's syndrome
S****** F****** P*******!
Have you seen the award-winning film I Swear, about a Scottish man with Tourette’s? (The less said about what happened at the ceremony where it won said award, the better). If so, you might want to know more about...
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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
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