Podcasts about metafact

$48.4 billion. That’s the estimated amount people spend around the globe on probiotics. You can see its impact every visit we make to the grocery store with hundreds of probiotic fortified products from milk, yogurts to kombucha drinks. Does the science and supposed health benefits of these products stack up? In this Metafact Review edition, we examine Probiotics by asking over 30 top gastroenterologists, microbiome and medical experts to share the facts - from the science of probiotics, it's safety and whether it's beneficial for healthy people, mothers, babies and those living with digestive conditions - this Metafact Review is all you need to know. You can read more in the review here. You can also subscribe to Verified our weekly digest here and if you want to ask Metafact a question - go here - we might feature it on our next episode! Sponsorships: off for this episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/factcheckit/message

Gluten-free products and diets are everywhere - but is there good evidence that gluten is unhealthy? Should we avoid the pastries and pasta? For this episode, we asked 35 gastroenterologists and nutritionists to share the facts on whether we should stay away from gluten. In this episode, we give you a takeaway on what you need to know - from the science of celiac disease, the problems in self-diagnosing gluten insensitivity and the importance of gluten-packed grains to a healthy diet. You can read all of the answers to this question here along with our expert consensus here. You can also subscribe to Verified our weekly digest here and if you want to ask Metafact a question - go here - we might feature it on our next episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/factcheckit/message

Far Away - Specialists; Theory - Deadline; See It In Your Eyes - Sam Crossland, Dragons In My Head - Paul Edelstein, The Atmosphere - Model Americans, TV - $ir Benedictine I$@@c; Geeknotes: 10/07 - Can we fix fake news with Metafact - Manny's, SF, 10/12 - Girls In Congress Experience, Fairfield, CA; Practice - Downtime Research; To The Max - Jade Mahogany

Where did this podcast come from? Ben McNeil is a climate scientist and founder of Metafact. In this episode, with the help of British comedian John Oliver, Ben explains how the media, Dr Google and internet misinformation led him to think of a new model to help fact-check the internet with a community of thousands of experts. Listen in to understand what this podcast is about and how it aims to provide something unique to help people source the truth. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/factcheckit/message

MEGAPHONE podcast aims to show you new trends, threats and solutions which activists and civic activists all around the world are faced with. We look for things which were not discussed before bringing you knowledge and inspiration for your work. --- amar Wilner is journalism advisor to the science fact-checking website Metafact, and a Ph.D. student in journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Tamara’s research focuses on misinformation, media credibility, news literacy and health. She developed expertise in these areas while writing for outlets including the Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter.org, and consulting for organizations including the American Press Institute, Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy, and international development non-profit IREX. Tamar is also co-creator of an online news literacy game, Post Facto. Before entering academia she spent 15 years as a professional journalist, covering topics ranging from business and urban planning to environment and the media. --- This podcast was created thanks to the support of Open Society Foundations and Charles Mott Foundation.

Special edition with the Guardian's Nick Evershed and Metafact's Ben McNeil about their work and future of Journalism in AI and fake news world.Metafact has a Kickstarter and if you want to help out go here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metafact/metafact-fact-checking-powered-by-science?ref=e1at7u

An HIV-1 sufferer, who had developed aggressive cancer, and underwent a revolutionary stem cell transplant, has been declared HIV resistant. It's been 18 months since the 'London patient' underwent a stem cell transplant of donated HIV resistant cells. This has only happened once before, in the case of the ‘Berlin Patient' – who, after two transplants, has now been HIV and cancer free for 10 years. Professor Ravindra Gupta at Cambridge University is careful not to say the work carried out at UCL has ‘cured’ the patient, but it’s very promising. They say they have made the patient’s cells ‘resistant’ to infection by the HIV virus. There are no animals that do not need sleep, yet we're still not sure why we need to sleep. Giorgio Gilestro at Imperial College has been trying to find out more about whether lack of sleep shortens lifespan, by bothering fruit flies and stopping them dropping off. In a carefully designed experiment, he has devised a way of shaking the flies as soon as it looks like they are dropping off. He tells Gareth Mitchell that he's 98% certain the flies were kept awake day after day and discovered that there was no life-shortening effect due to lack of sleep. He cannot rule out the benefit of micro-sleep, but it provides tantalising results which could point us in the direction of finally discovering whether we need those 8 precious hours a night. Eight years ago, on 11th March 2011, three of the nuclear reactors overheated and exploded at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. This was following the tsunami that killed around 19,000 people. The essentials are known – the reactors overheated when the cooling circuits failed. The overheated steam then broke down into hydrogen and oxygen, which then caught fire and blew the reactor vessels apart. But the details aren’t known. And there’s no way of getting inside the reactors to learn them. So instead researchers are doing a forensic analysis of the radioactive debris scattered around the reactor sites – some of it at the Diamond X-ray facility just outside Oxford. Roland Pease was waiting in the experimental area as one grain of Fukushima dust was brought in from safe storage. Concerned about a growing number of spurious scientific claims on products and campaigns against vaccinations and the shape of our planet, climate scientist Ben McNeil decided to do something about it. He has come up with a website where anyone can pose a question for scientists to answer. MetaFact.io is just starting up, but Ben's hope is to put the public in direct contact with the scientists with some, if not all, of the answers.

Chrome 68, Atom 1.29 and the difficulty of Time Tracking and Scheduling on this weeks Bit v. Byte! If you would like to support me via Anchor Listener Support, go to anchor.fm/bit-v-byte. Thank you! Links & Resources Clockify - https://clockify.me/ Inoreader - https://www.inoreader.com/ Metafact - https://metafact.io/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bit-v-byte/support