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Christmas 2016 - truth, post truth, nothing like the truth

Christmas 2016 - truth, post truth, nothing like the truth

FromThe BMJ Podcast


Christmas 2016 - truth, post truth, nothing like the truth

FromThe BMJ Podcast

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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
Released:
Dec 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.