Science Fictions
Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie
A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie sciencefictionspod.substack.com
Episodes (137)
Episode 30: The origin of life
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Episode 29: Cognitive decline
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Mea Culpa 3
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Episode 28: Climate models
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Paid-only Episode 5: The Hans Eysenck saga
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Episode 27: Exercise
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Episode 26: Psychotherapy
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Episode 25: Is it the phones?
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Paid-only Episode 4: Male and female brains
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Episode 24: Personality
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Episode 23: Statistical significance
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Episode 22: Review of 2023
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Episode 21: Falling sperm counts
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Episode 20: The microbiome
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Episode 19: Science and politics
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Paid-only Episode 3: Pornography and "No Nut November"
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Episode 18: Phonics and the reading wars
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Mea Culpa 2
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Episode 17: Your shrinking attention span
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Episode 16: Alzheimer's and the amyloid hypothesis
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Episode 15: Halloween special on parapsychology
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Paid-only Episode 2: Long COVID
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Episode 14: Scientific fraud
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Episode 13: Football and dementia
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Paid-only Episode 1: Diversity training
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Episode 12: Nuclear power
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Episode 11: The AI apocalypse debate
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Episode 10: Cash transfers
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Episode 9: The placebo effect
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Mea Culpa 1
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Episode 8: Growth mindset
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Episode 7: The LK-99 superconductor, and other physics false dawns
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Episode 6: Ultra-processed foods
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Episode 5: Vaping, smoking, and popcorn lung
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Episode 4: Psychedelics and psychotherapy
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Episode 3: Aspartame and the stupid list of things that cause cancer
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Episode 2: Breastfeeding - what the science actually says
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Episode 1: Why is Ozempic so controversial?
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