Podcasts about Sense about Science

Pontus is back from skiing, Orbán is worse than ever, and an astronaut will photograph the turtle that carries the Earth on its back – just a normal week in skepticism. In TWISH we hear about the successful ban on CFCs to save the ozone layer, and then it's time for the news:EUROPE: Measles in Europe highest in 25 yearsITALY: Higher levels of spirituality and CAM use increases likelyhood of vaccine skepticismUK: Psychological ‘booster shots' can strengthen resistance to misinformation over timeUK: Poor sleep could fuel belief in conspiracy theoriesINTERNATIONAL: Press freedom watchdog says Russia ‘stealing' its identityRUSSIA: Russian network changes tactics to ‘groom' AI bots with disinformationPORTUGAL: ComCept's Flying Unicorn Awards are here again, voting is on!The Really Wrong Award goes to Dutch minister for Asylum and Migration, Marjolein Faber, for ignoring expertise, and we send a Really Right to Sense About Science for their work to teach researchers how to communicate.Enjoy!https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-471.htmlSegments:0:00:27 Intro0:00:51 Greetings0:14:14 TWISH0:22:35 News0:49:53 Really Wrong / Really Right0:56:55 Quote0:58:57 Outro1:00:19 Outtakes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Data Malarkey podcast, data storyteller Sam Knowles is joined by Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge, where he also runs the Autism Research Centre. Simon has been working in the field of autism for approaching 40 years and is one of the world's leading authorities on the subject.   Since the mid-1980s, the research he's led and undertaken has led him to advance several different, complementary theories of the condition including: the mind-blindness theory, the prenatal sex steroid theory, and the empathising-systemising theory of autism and typical sex differences.   Some corners of autism research have a somewhat shady and disreputable reputation for their misuse of data; for drawing conclusions about the general population from tiny sample sizes that the data could not warrant. Indeed, it was in the wake of the MMR scandal that the charity Sense About Science was founded in the early 2000s – to encourage researchers to present their findings responsibly and the media to report them responsibly – and Sense About Science's director, Tracey Brown, was a recent guest on Data Malarkey.   By contrast with the shady stuff, Simon's research has been a shining light of empiricism and evidence-based, data-driven truth, with sample sizes sometimes in the tens or hundreds of thousands. His 2018, empathising-systemising study famously collected data from 36,000 autistic people and 600,000 non-autistic people.   Described by the medical journal The Lancet as “a man with extraordinary knowledge … his passionate advocacy for a more tolerant, diverse society, where difference is respected and cultivated, reveals a very human side to his science” it is our honour to welcome Simon to Data Malarkey. A very fitting, very high-profile end to Season Five, a season bookended by two great Cambridge minds, as we started with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter.   To secure Simon as a guest on Data Malarkey, I'm delighted to say I had to drop my son Max's name. At the time of recording, Max had recently hosted Simon at an excellent event run by the recently-reborn Cambridge Psychology Society, of which Max is now President. At the university, he is studying Psychological & Behavioural Sciences. #proudfather   EXTERNAL LINKS Profile of Simon on The Lancet – Psychiatry site https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00461-7/fulltext   The Autism Research Centre https://www.autismresearchcentre.com   The extraordinary output of 750+ articles from the Autism Research Centre on PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=simon+baron-cohen&sort=date   Auticon, the social enterprise on a mission to improve the employment prospects of neurodivergent people, whose board Simon advises https://auticon.com/uk/     To find out what kind of data storyteller you are, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes, and we'll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.  

In this episode of the Data Malarkey podcast, your host Sam Knowles is joined by Olivia Jensen, Director of the Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR) based at the National University of Singapore.   Our conversation was recorded remotely, via the medium of Riverside.fm, on 13 March 2024.   Thanks to Joe Hickey for production support.   Podcast artwork by Shatter Media.   Voice over by Samantha Boffin.   IPUR is a research institute that seeks to narrow the gap between people's perceptions and real-world risks, focused on the data and technology, environment and climate, and health and lifestyle. The Institute brings together basic science, engineering, social sciences, and the humanities.   Olivia Jensen is a passionate advocate and deeply pragmatic practitioner in the art and science of closing the gaps that exist between expert knowledge about risk and public perception of risk. IPUR and the global risk community of which it forms an integral part aims to empower citizens and societies to make better decisions about risk.   Olivia believes that risk-evidence communication is as much about getting experts to understand how and why citizens make decisions as it is about experts explaining the evidence to those citizens.   In considering risk evidence communication under uncertainty, we inevitably talk about Government communication under COVID. Olivia believes that the Government in Singapore got things “just about right”, clearly communicating regularly-updated data and basing its policy decisions on evidence. Sam is rather less complementary about the British Government's over-politicised use of data in its pandemic communication.   One of the real challenges of risk evidence communication is looking back on events, with narratives constructed that fall victim to hindsight bias. Just because something was possible and it happened doesn't mean it was inevitable.   Outside of the world of risk, Olivia is a passionate dancer, and in 2024 is learning to tango.   EXTERNAL LINKS IPUR home page https://ipur.nus.edu.sg  Olivia's IPUR profile https://ipur.nus.edu.sg/team/olivia-jensen/ IPUR's EdX course “Understanding and Communicating Risk” https://bit.ly/4dcqQip Understanding Risk https://understandrisk.org Risk Know How – a joint venture with Sense About Science https://riskknowhow.org     To find out what kind of data storyteller you are, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes, and we'll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.

After our fourth collection of six great guests, it's a wrap for Season Four of Data Malarkey – the podcast about using data smarter. Your host, master data storyteller Dr Sam Knowles, picks out common themes and chooses his highlights from a lively series of conversations – recorded remotely, via the medium of Riverside.fm, between July and December 2023.   Thanks as ever to Joe Hickey for production support.   Podcast artwork by Shatter Media.   Voice over by Samantha Boffin.   In Season Four, our guests included:   Tracey Brown, director of the charity, Sense About Science.   Mark Montgomery, Vice President and International Head of Integrated Insights at Novartis.   John McFall, military and civvy street logistics expert, and the founder of Supply Chain Wise.   Kieran Maguire, leading football finance academic from the University of Liverpool's Management School, and co-host of The Price of Football podcast.   Ian Makgill, founder of Spend Network, a database keeping tabs on the worlds' Governments' $13tn spend.   And Mike Bell, data visualiser extraordinaire, who uses the iconography of the London Underground to tell the stories of bands, albums, films, and political careers at his eponymous business, Mike Bell Maps.   Data Malarkey will have its usual, between-season break for a couple of weeks. We'll be back with Season Five on 8 May 2024, and there's another glittering array of guests from an increasingly diverse set of professions. We'll be hearing from women and men at the top of their game from the worlds of statistics, risk management, consumer goods, academic publishing, financial analysis, and autism research. Their common approaches to using data smarter have lessons for us all. And we start with the blockbuster guest, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, a man who had perhaps the best pandemic of any data storyteller in the public domain.   To find out how you rank as a data storyteller, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes to answer 12 questions, and we'll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.

Sense about Science promotes the public interest in sound science and evidence.

In this episode of the Data Malarkey podcast, data storyteller Sam Knowles is joined by Tracey Brown, the director of Sense About Science, a role she's held since its founding in 2002. Scientific evidence can be a powerful tool for insight, accountability, and change. Yet in public life – particularly in politics and the media – debate often revolves around claims based on shoddy or misrepresented evidence.   Sense About Science exists to change all that. The charity challenges the misrepresentation of science and evidence in public life and intervenes – often in partnership with others. It holds those responsible to account, and runs highly impactful, evidence-based campaigns. Under Tracey's leadership, Sense About Science has assessed the transparency of many government departments, and championed peer review beyond academia – especially with the public, helping people make sense of science and evidence. In June 2017, Tracey was awarded an OBE for services to science.   Our conversation was recorded remotely, via the medium of Riverside.fm, on 26 July 2023.   Thanks to Joe Hickey for production support.   Podcast artwork by Shatter Media.   Voice over by Samantha Boffin.   Tracey reveals how the role of Sense About Science has evolved in the past 20 years. It started life with a baptism of fire and a cauldron of front page stories, with academics, activists, companies, and government departments battling it out. The issues it tackled included Andrew Wakefield's bogus claims on the links between MMR and autism, mobile phones apparently frying your brain, and GM crops said to be accelerating the demise of healthy food. The truth, in each case, was rather different, and Sense About Science was in the vanguard of sharing real evidence, calmly and dispassionately.   We focus on data science and what can and should be done to make it not only palatable but also comprehensible to an uninformed lay public, starting the Sense About Science's 2018 guide on the topic. The guide asks (and answers) three key questions: where did it come from, on what assumptions does it rest, and can it bear the weight of the expectations we heap upon it?   Tracey contends that statisticians and researchers need a change of perspective. They need to think of themselves less as producing evidence and more as answering questions that matter to society. This requires them to reframe their perspective and put themselves in the public's shoes. She also argues – elegantly and persuasively – that Big Data is often not better data, and highlights both huge potential positives (and equally huge potential negatives) offered by the new generation of AI tools. The negatives are less ‘Skynet' and more banal error, rolled out at scale.   Tracey also details her organisation's global AllTrials campaign, designed to ensure that data from  every study conducted are reported in the public domain, not just those that bring benefits and advantages to the company, research institution, or compound that benefit from positive research outcomes. The campaign highlights researchers' legal, moral, and ethical responsibilities and is bringing about genuine change.   EXTERNAL LINKS Sense About Science website – https://senseaboutscience.org The charity on Twitter – https://twitter.com/senseaboutsci Tracey's LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracey-brown-42b2788/     To find out what kind of data storyteller you are, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes, and we'll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.  

It's been a year since Boris Johnson resigned outside Downing Street, telling the nation: "Them's the breaks." Matt is joined by impressionist Jon Culshaw and columnists James Marriott and Gaby Hinsliff to discuss exclusive new polling about the former prime minister and whether people want him back.Plus: Decisions, decisions, decisions. We convene a panel of experts to discuss the difficult trade-offs in politics when deciding who gets what, and who misses out. With the chair of the UK Statistics Authority Sir Robert Chote, Professor Paul Dolan from the LSE, former minister Dame Margaret Hodge and Tracey Brown from Sense About Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, unprecedented numbers of people engaged with evidence behind government policy. Many had to interpret and implement government decisions while making trade-offs with other priorities, like protecting children, cancer care provision or running businesses. Based on testimony from expert witnesses and the experiences of people from a broad range of sectors across the UK, Sense About Science's What Counts? inquiry is a major new study looking at what society needed to know and how well the UK government was able to respond. The report's findings, including a NatCen survey of how the public engaged with government evidence, was presented Tracey Brown, Director of Sense about Science, followed by remarks from Greg Clark MP, Chair of the Science and Technology Committee, and a panel discussion with Paul Wilson, Policy Director at the Federation of Small Businesses. The event was chaired by Tom Sasse, Associate Director at the Institute for Government. The report What Counts? A scoping inquiry into how well the government's evidence for Covid-19 decisions served society is available for download on the Sense About Science website. #WhatCounts

In this episode, Emily Willingham joins Indre to talk about tailoring the brain, a subject on which she's an expert and about which she writes extensively in her book The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, A User's Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter. Emily is a journalist, a science writer, the author of previous books, including Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis, a coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, and is a regular contributor to Scientific American and other publications. She is the joint recipient with David Robert Grimes of the 2014 John Maddox Prize which is awarded by the science charity Sense About Science to those who stand up for science in the face of personal attacks. If you want to learn how to to feel better and think smarter – and, really, who doesn't? – then today's episode of Inquiring Minds is definitely a ‘must listen'.   Show Links: Inquiring Minds Podcast Homepage Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, A User's Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before I take a break and work towards making the podcast better and more accessible, I leave you with a different kind of episode. I met Dr. Hamid Khan from the charity Sense About Science and we discussed the best way to actually discuss matters of science. Why are some people falling into the conspiracy theory traps? What can scientists do better in order to make their work more accessible? I hope you enjoy this episode and I'll be back sooner than you think ;-) Find out more about Hamid Khan: https://senseaboutscience.org/team/hamid-khan/ (https://senseaboutscience.org/team/hamid-khan/) Find out more about Sense about Science: https://senseaboutscience.org/ (https://senseaboutscience.org/) Ask for Evidence: https://askforevidence.org/index (https://askforevidence.org/index) Subscribe to the podcast: https://www.lefterisasks.com/listen (https://www.lefterisasks.com/listen) Subscribe to the weekly newsletter: https://my.captivate.fm/lefterisasks.com/newsletter (lefterisasks.com/newsletter) Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LefterisAsks (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LefterisAsks) Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/544815233347328/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/544815233347328/) Support this podcast

Mags is back after a podcast off, and gets straight back to work looking into a misleading article about Scots vaccine-related deaths.Ali speaks to Alex Clegg, who worked with Sense About Science to produce a guide for talking to people who believe in conspiracy theories. The FFS Show is hosted by The Ferret's fact-checkers Ali Brian and Mags Taylor. Follow us on Twitter at @AlastairBrian and @MagsTaylorish. The music for this show is by Kevin Hartnell, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Ali is flying solo today for a special interview with Alex Clegg from charity Sense About Science. We look at how well the media reported scientific information around Covid-19, and how it can improve.The FFS Show is hosted by The Ferret's fact-checkers Ali Brian and Mags Taylor. Follow us on Twitter at @AlastairBrian and @MagsTaylorish. The music for this show is by Kevin Hartnell, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Stephanie Davies-Arai is a communication skills trainer with over 20 years’ experience working with parents and in schools. She is author of Communicating with Kids and has contributed chapters to three books on the subject of ‘transgender children’. She has spoken at events around the UK, including in the House of Commons and House of Lords. She founded the organisation Transgender Trend in 2015 and produced a schools guide Supporting gender diverse and trans-identified students in schools in 2018, for which she was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize, a joint initiative of the charity Sense About Science and the science journal Nature, which “recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.” https://www.transgendertrend.com https://www.transgendertrend.com/schools-resources/ https://www.cambridgescholars.com/transgender- children-and-young-people https://stephaniedaviesarai.com/ website: www.womanbydefinition.com website: www.standingforwomen.com Shop: www.standingforwomen.com/shop Teespring shop: https://teespring.com/stores/human-by-definition-2?page=1 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Posieparker Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theposieparker/ Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/posieparker All content is the responsibility and property of Woman By Definition LTD.

This week we bring you news and topics from all over Europe again. We start by talking about the unfortunate death (probably of Covid-19) of a board member of VoF. After that we're looking back at the history of LSD and how 19 April marks a special day in it, before we discuss how Cardinal Pell walks freely after the High Court of Australia overturns the previous verdict on his child abuse case. In the news: Covid-19 update followed by details of some other stuff related to the pandemic, including: OfCom, the British media authority helping confused media consumers, a Policy Paper of the NHS release a few days after the publication of Sense About Science's call for transparency over testing. Colloidal Silver seems to be a big sell in Finland these days, while Hungary's response to the pandamic can only be described as chaotic, something that a petition might not be able to change. Religious liberty restrictions across Europe are also in focus as countries are trying to fight the disease, while British homeopaths "happily promote bogus treatments". A new Chernobyl scare makes its rounds on social media over a wildfire in the area, but the best news is that Edzard Ernst's new book 'Don't Believe What You Think' is now available. President Macron gets this week's Really Wrong Prize for adding weight to an unproven 'cure' for the Novel-Coronavirus. Also, please don't forget that nominations for the John Maddox Prize are open until 11th May.

ECSO President Claire Kraulik-Klingenberg joins us for this week's episode to bring you news and topics from all over the continent. Skeptics in the Pub Online is now a thing, popping up everywhere, while power grabbing by authoritarian governments seems to be the new, concerning trend. We talk about whether Alfred Nobel read his own premature obituary, prompting him to start the awards named after him. Then poor Pope Francis' struggles are discussed while more Covid-19 magic is coming from Turin. In the news, religious bullshit spread by the government in Israel, President Lukashenko of Belarus claiming a vodka a day keeps the virus away, Prince Charles not using homeopathy as a cure against COVID-19, Sense About Science calling upon the government for more transparency in their actions against the pandemic, extra caution needed in times of increased online activities, plus the Portugese skeptics' Flying Unicorn Award categories explained. Also, conspiracy theories linking 5G to COVID-19 on the rise, while the German skeptics launch a page explaining COVID-related myths. The alt-right website Samhällsnytt gets this week's Really Wrong prize for claiming the Swedish health authorities are implementing "death forms". Enjoy!

Can you trust the scientific claims on products you buy?  Conor's curiosity led him down a three-pronged investigation about what you can and should believe, when it comes to statistics and statements about science. 

Any idea what uses your data can be put to beyond advertising?? We speak with Tracey Browne about a new report called Ask for Evidence which will get you thinking.

This week we catch up a bit regarding VoF (the Swedish skeptics) and talk about a new Manifesto against pseudoscientific treatments. We also get a bit nostalgic about a UK referendum about Europe - in 1975. Then we get two interviews from SkepKon by our special correspondent on the ground, Annika Merkelbach. We check in with Francis who has been in Romania and also apparently is happy to cultivate his future legacy as the ‘tender' pope. Sense About Science calls for volunteers for their Evidence Week, Amazon, Facebook and Youtube take a stance against MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) and other dangerous nonsense, and University of Vienna makes an effort to repair its past endorsement of homeopathy. More news about Natalie Grams and the (totally bogus) legal threat she is facing and also that her organisation, Information Network on Homeopathy, has launched a repository of excellent information in English. The fake cancer drug Rigvir has now been de-registered by the State Agency of Medicines (ZVA), but some forces are still pushing for future distribution. In Belgium a consumer protection organisation speaks up against homeopathy, before we end by giving a Really Wrong award to Keele University for keeping a an anti-vaxxer and bad researcher on their payroll. Segments: Intro; Greetings; This Week in Skepticism; Interviews from SkepKon; Pontus Pokes the Pope; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Out-takes Events Calendar: http://theesp.eu/events_in_europe Show notes at: http://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-173.html

Rebecca Goldin ( @rebegol ) is a professor of mathematics George Mason University and the Director of STATS at Sense About Science USA . She has received several grants from the National Science Foundation to support her research in mathematics and in statistics education, as well as the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize from the Association of Women in Mathematics. Her work with STATS has appeared in many media sources, including NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN, and the Washington Post. She has worked with individual journalists from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, 538, and many other media outlets, as well as run workshops for journalists and students alike. In 2014, STATS became part of Sense About Science, USA, and a major collaboration with the American Statistical Association was established. She continues to direct the effort to work with journalists to improve statistical reporting.

My guest for today is Ian Bushfield, executive director of the British Columbia Humanist Association. According to his bio, “Ian Bushfield was the first Executive Director for the BC Humanist Association and lived for two years in the UK where he worked on campaigns with Sense About Science. He has a background in physics and non-profit management and grew up in Alberta. In 2017 he joined the BC Civil Liberties Association's Board of Directors.” So today we’re going to talk about Ian’s background and find out everything the BC Humanist Association is doing.Links:•BC Humanist Association: http://www.bchumanist.ca/ •Ian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ibushfield •4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears: http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/white-people-emotions-tears/ •The Podunk Polymath Podcast: https://thepodunkpolymath.com/ •Unbuckling the Bible Belt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzq5cXYaLevSZ4EnQRsTwiA •Cellar Door Skeptics: https://cellardoorskeptics.com/ •Freedom from Religion Foundation: http://ffrf.org •Utah Outcasts: http://utahoutcasts.com/ •The Biskeptical Podcast: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-biskeptical-podcast•The Spin Off: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-spin-off •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast/Spin Off Fans Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

My guest for today is Ian Bushfield, executive director of the British Columbia Humanist Association. According to his bio, “Ian Bushfield was the first Executive Director for the BC Humanist Association and lived for two years in the UK where he worked on campaigns with Sense About Science. He has a background in physics and non-profit management and grew up in Alberta. In 2017 he joined the BC Civil Liberties Association's Board of Directors.” So today we’re going to talk about Ian’s background and find out everything the BC Humanist Association is doing.Links:•BC Humanist Association: http://www.bchumanist.ca/ •Ian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ibushfield •4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears: http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/white-people-emotions-tears/ •The Podunk Polymath Podcast: https://thepodunkpolymath.com/ •Unbuckling the Bible Belt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzq5cXYaLevSZ4EnQRsTwiA •Cellar Door Skeptics: https://cellardoorskeptics.com/ •Freedom from Religion Foundation: http://ffrf.org •Utah Outcasts: http://utahoutcasts.com/ •The Biskeptical Podcast: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-biskeptical-podcast•The Spin Off: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-spin-off •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast/Spin Off Fans Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Brexit, Sense About Science to open EU office, NHS Liverpool to stop funding homeopathy and Marko Kovic, president of Skeptiker Schweiz publishes an article on the concept of critical thinking. Segments Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What's on in Europe?; What's hot in Europe?; Logical Fallacies; Really Wrong; True or False?; Quote

The series that looks at current events through the lens of psychology - Michael Blastland explores the quirky ways in which we humans think, behave and make decisions. In this episode, we explore success and failure, and how easily we attribute acclaim or the blame. Too easily? For example, football managers - we can expect a few casualties during Euro 2016, but is the failure of a team one man's fault? At the same time, the boss of the eventual cup-winner is lauded as a genius. Surely it's more complicated than that? The Human Zoo team investigate how we tend to oversimplify our complex world - unconsciously - because we are cognitively lazy. We take shortcuts to come to easy answers about everything from which politicians we trust, to evidence for climate change, to star performers on Wall Street. What weird behaviour. Why do we do it? Michael Blastland is joined by resident Zoo psychologist Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, and roving reporter Timandra Harkness. Contributors this week include Professor Jerker Denrell, University of Warwick; Dr Stian Reimers, City University London; Tracey Brown, Sense About Science; and Ed Smith, former England cricketer. Producer: Dom Byrne A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

On this episode, we interviewed Chris Peters, scientific affairs manager at Sense About Science, the UK-based non-profit organisation behind such campaigns as 'Ask for Evidence' and 'Libel Reform', the 'Plant Science' and 'Energy Online Expert' panels, as well as the international 'AllTrials' campaign. Also, you can here the usual run-through of interesting events across Europe.

How can we make companies, politicians, commentators and official bodies accountable for the claims they make? Chris Peters talks about the Ask for Evidence campaign and how you can get involved.

This is the podcast of the 2015 European Skeptics Conference – the regular conference of The European Council of Skeptical Organisations, taking place in London on 11-13 September, 2015. Joining Marsh today is Chris Peters, the scientific liaison office for Sense About Science. Tickets for the conference are available at: http://euroscepticscon.org/. Find out how to donate … Continue reading

Myles and James are joined by Chris Peters from the charity Sense About Science. https://twitter.com/senseaboutsci http://www.senseaboutscience.org https://medium.com/@writingben/a-disease-of-scienceyness-7b5571a34953 http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Download Podcast

This week the pendulum swings toward egghead rather than meathead. Or perhaps how to use your inner egghead to become a better meathead! After recent discussions on self-publishing and changing your game, in the weight room or at the table, the guys turn to an evidence expert. Dr. Chris Peters from Sense About Science and Ask for Evidence shares advice on topics relevant to the thinking man's lifter. What constitutes good evidence? Why is our community particularly vulnerable to being bamboozled? What questions should you ask when presented with a claim? Get answers and even check out the www.SenseAboutScience.org nutrition quiz to see if you can even detect a made-up diet from one that's actually marketed. Topics herein range from CLA to amino acids to genetically modified foods and more. Come on in and become a smarter fitness consumer!

This week the pendulum swings toward egghead rather than meathead. Or perhaps how to use your inner egghead to become a better meathead! After recent discussions on self-publishing and changing your game, in the weight room or at the table, the guys turn to an evidence expert. Dr. Chris Peters from Sense About Science and Ask for Evidence shares advice on topics relevant to the thinking man's lifter. What constitutes good evidence? Why is our community particularly vulnerable to being bamboozled? What questions should you ask when presented with a claim? Get answers and even check out the www.SenseAboutScience.org nutrition quiz to see if you can even detect a made-up diet from one that's actually marketed. Topics herein range from CLA to amino acids to genetically modified foods and more. Come on in and become a smarter fitness consumer!

This week the pendulum swings toward egghead rather than meathead. Or perhaps how to use your inner egghead to become a better meathead! After recent discussions on self-publishing and changing your game, in the weight room or at the table, the guys turn to an evidence expert. Dr. Chris Peters from Sense About Science and Ask for Evidence shares advice on topics relevant to the thinking man's lifter. What constitutes good evidence? Why is our community particularly vulnerable to being bamboozled? What questions should you ask when presented with a claim? Get answers and even check out the www.SenseAboutScience.org nutrition quiz to see if you can even detect a made-up diet from one that's actually marketed. Topics herein range from CLA to amino acids to genetically modified foods and more. Come on in and become a smarter fitness consumer!

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Gem Newman and Richelle McCullough discuss Bill C-17 (“Vanessa’s Law”) and are joined by Ian Bushfield of Sense About Science’s AllTrials project to discuss the problem of publication bias. Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented … Continue reading Episode 85: AllTrials and Vanessa’s Law →

Sense About Science's trip to the GM wheat experiment at Rothamsted Research.

Sile Lane's talk from ThinkCon 2011

0:00:00Introduction Richard Saunders 0:05:20Richard Saunders interviews Dr Síle Lane - Sense About Science - Dr Síle Lane became Public Liaison for charity Sense About Science after a career in stem-cell research. Sense About Science was founded to equip the public to make sense of science and evidence. As Public Liaison, Síle is concerned with the role of science and evidence in civic society. She also coordinates the Libel Reform Campaign. 0:27:00Peter Bowditch from ratbags.com Peter tells of his quest to be heard on Anti-Vaccination forums. 0:35:05Dr Rachie Reports - It has just been announced that the Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores have joined forces to upsell you Blackmores supplements when filling a prescription. 0:43:20Dr Rachie on TV talking about Ear Candles Of all the bizarre and loony so-called treatments, ear candles takes the cake!

Science Chat talks to Julia Wilson, Communications Officer and Voice of Young Science Coordinator about the work that they do in Sense About Science