Science Fictions

Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie

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About Science Fictions

A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie sciencefictionspod.substack.com

Language: English
Type: podcast

Latest episodes(50)

1Paid-only episode 30: Cancer screening
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2Episode 103: Medical Hypotheses
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3Episode 102: Why We Sleep
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4Paid-only episode 29: HIV/AIDS denial
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5Episode 101: Sugar taxes
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6Unpaywalled: The science of Johann Hari
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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…
7Episode 100: Replication, replication, replication
28 Apr 20261h 17m
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…
8Episode 99.5: Candidate genes
21 Apr 20261h 13m
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…
9Episode 99: Power posing
31 Mar 20261h 13m
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…
10Paid-only episode 28: Tourette's syndrome
24 Mar 202610m
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sciencefictionspod.substack.com Have you seen the award-winning film I Swear, about a Scottish man with Tourette’s? (The less said about…

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