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Christmas 2016 - truth, post truth, nothing like the truth
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27 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2016
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Podcast episode
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In response to the turmoil of 2016, with political campaigns being run on, and won on, misinformation - many commentators are disparing that we’ve become a post-truth society. And what is truth anyway?
Tracy Brown, director of Sense about Science, the charity set up to champion evidence in everyday life, is less pessimistic about the public's appetite for evidence.
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6467
Anders Huitfeldt, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine, and has been trying to puzzle out “Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire?”
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6536
Tracy Brown, director of Sense about Science, the charity set up to champion evidence in everyday life, is less pessimistic about the public's appetite for evidence.
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6467
Anders Huitfeldt, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine, and has been trying to puzzle out “Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire?”
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6536
Released:
Dec 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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