Science Fictions
Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie
EN137 episodes
sciencetechnology
A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie sciencefictionspod.substack.com
Episodes (137)
Episode 99.5: Candidate genes
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Episode 99: Power posing
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Paid-only episode 28: Tourette's syndrome
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Episode 98: Dark oxygen
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Episode 97: The 2D:4D digit ratio
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Mar 10, 20261:03:23completed
Paid-only episode 27: Antidepressants
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Episode 96: Electroconvulsive therapy
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Episode 95: Critical thinking
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Episode 94: Medical marijuana
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Paid-only episode 26: Microplastics redux
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Episode 93: Many analysts
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A Christmas 2025 compendium
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Dec 30, 202532:24pending
Episode 92: Oliver Sacks
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Paid-only episode 25: The menopause and hormone replacement therapy
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Dec 2, 202510:26pending
Unpaywalled: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media
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Nov 26, 20251:00:00pending
Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web
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Episode 90: Cognitive dissonance
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Paid-only episode 24: Creatine
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Episode 89: Halloween special on reincarnation
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Episode 88: Wellbeing
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Episode 87: Does Tylenol cause autism?
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Paid-only episode 23: Suicide contagion
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Episode 86: Food and climate
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Episode 85: Insectageddon
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Episode 84: Brain training
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Episode 83: Dark matter and dark energy
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Episode 82: Paper mills
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Unpaywalled: Diversity training
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Episode 81: Retraction
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Episode 80: Mindfulness meditation
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Episode 79: Cancer rates
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Episode 78: Worm wars and mouth bacteria
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Paid-only Episode 21: Psychological sex differences
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Episode 77: Anti-ageing, part 1
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Episode 76: The four-day week
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Episode 75: Broken windows theory
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Un-paywalled: Bicycle helmets
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Episode 74: Neurogenesis
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Episode 73: Borderline Personality Disorder
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Paid-only Episode 20: The Studies Show LIVE with Jesse Singal
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Episode 72: Parenting (Part 1)
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Episode 71: The autism epidemic
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Paid-only Episode 19: Circumcision
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Episode 70: Bird flu
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Episode 69: Conspiracy theories
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Episode 68: Cannabis
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Invitation to The Studies Show LIVE
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Paid-only Episode 18: Abortion
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Episode 67: Seed oils
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Episode 66: Superforecasting
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