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Science Fictions

Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie

EN137 episodes
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A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie sciencefictionspod.substack.com

Episodes (137)

Episode 65: Havana Syndrome and mass hysteria

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Feb 25, 202552:00pending

Paid-only Episode 17: The lab leak hypothesis

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Episode 64: IQ

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Feb 11, 20251:14:58pending

Episode 63: Philosophy of science

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Feb 4, 20251:10:24pending

Episode 62: Violent videogames

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Jan 28, 20251:04:55pending

Paid-only Episode 16: Recycling

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Jan 21, 202511:17pending

Episode 61: Conflict of interest

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Jan 6, 20251:07:21pending

Un-paywalled: Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review

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Dec 31, 20241:15:24pending

Episode 60: Best and worst science of 2024

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Dec 24, 20241:05:41pending

Episode 59: The apocalypse

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Dec 17, 20241:04:32pending

Paid-only Episode 15: Sex and sport

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Dec 10, 202410:45pending

Episode 58: Psychopathy

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Dec 3, 202457:30pending

Episode 57: Collider bias

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Nov 26, 20241:00:30pending

Episode 56: Water fluoridation and dentistry

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Nov 19, 20241:02:57pending

Paid-only Episode 14: Adult ADHD

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Nov 12, 202411:12pending

Episode 55: Government science funding

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Nov 5, 202452:06pending

Episode 54: Halloween special on psychic mediums

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Oct 29, 20241:09:05pending

Episode 53: The Stanford Prison Experiment

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Oct 22, 20241:12:27pending

Paid-only Episode 13: Surrogacy

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Oct 15, 202411:27pending

Episode 52: Very old people and "Blue Zones"

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Oct 8, 20241:01:31pending

Episode 51: Antimicrobial resistance

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Oct 1, 202450:16pending

Episode 50: Toxoplasma

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Sep 24, 20241:08:48pending

Paid-only Episode 12: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media

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Sep 17, 202459:18pending

Episode 49: Scientific publishing

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Sep 10, 20241:16:13pending

Episode 48: Alcohol

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Sep 3, 202455:19pending

Episode 47: The 25 year old brain

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Aug 27, 20241:03:31pending

Paid-only Episode 11: Sex education

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Aug 20, 202410:39pending

Episode 46: The marshmallow test

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Aug 13, 20241:12:44pending

First anniversary special

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Aug 6, 20241:09:38pending

Episode 45: Air pollution

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Jul 30, 20241:04:59pending

Paid-only Episode 10: Misinformation, debunked

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Jul 23, 202411:00pending

Episode 44: Asteroids

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Jul 16, 202453:18pending

Episode 43: Nuclear winter

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Jul 9, 20241:12:45pending

Episode 42: Election special

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Jul 2, 20241:01:48pending

Paid-only Episode 9: Viagra

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Jun 25, 202410:32pending

Episode 41: Criminal justice and forensic science

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Jun 18, 20241:01:35pending

Episode 40: Addiction

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Jun 11, 20241:05:21pending

Episode 39: Peanut allergy

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Jun 4, 20241:04:45pending

Episode 38: Lead and crime

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May 28, 202456:13pending

Paid-only Episode 8: The science of Johann Hari

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May 21, 202410:36pending

Episode 37: Lead and IQ

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May 14, 20241:04:51pending

Episode 36: Vitamin D

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May 7, 202459:21pending

Episode 35: The loneliness epidemic

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Apr 30, 202454:48pending

Paid-only Episode 7: Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review

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Apr 23, 202410:41pending

Episode 34: Does depression exist?

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Apr 16, 20241:02:54pending

Episode 33: Probability (and Tom's new book)

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Apr 9, 20241:02:12pending

Episode 32: Microplastics

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Apr 2, 20241:00:30pending

Studies Show Short 1: Emotional Intelligence

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Mar 29, 202422:33pending

Paid-only Episode 6: Bicycle helmets

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Mar 26, 202410:06pending

Episode 31: The trouble with meta-analysis

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Mar 19, 20241:09:35pending