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Ben Goldacre - Fact Checking Scientist
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Feb 15, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
"Fake News" was 2016's word of the year (according to the Macquarie Dictionary). Can "fake news" make you sick ? Doctor Karl meets a fact-checking scientist. Ben Goldacre reviews articles in medical Journals. Ben is "Senior Clinical Research Fellow" at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University and he says there are reasons to be concerned. (His Dead cat is a professional member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants - proof that fancy titles means nothing.)
Released:
Feb 15, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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