Carl and Richard talk to Nick Mailer about bad science: how to recognize it and avoid it. Nick gives many examples of how we have been conditioned through language to accept bogus claims. The source of this bias may surprise you.

Errata
Richard mentioned he visited a Sydney Meat-up hosted by Julie and her husband .. he meant to say Linda. Apologies


Also after the podcast was recorded, Richard listened to a podcast by Dr Chris Masterjohn that gave an heroic dismantling of the AHA coconut oil press release and the studies behind it. We've linked THAT in the show notes.