122 Episodes

  1. Episode 18: Phonics and the reading wars

    Published: 11/21/2023
  2. Mea Culpa 2

    Published: 11/18/2023
  3. Episode 17: Your shrinking attention span

    Published: 11/14/2023
  4. Episode 16: Alzheimer's and the amyloid hypothesis

    Published: 11/7/2023
  5. Episode 15: Halloween special on parapsychology

    Published: 10/31/2023
  6. Paid-only Episode 2: Long COVID

    Published: 10/24/2023
  7. Episode 14: Scientific fraud

    Published: 10/17/2023
  8. Episode 13: Football and dementia

    Published: 10/10/2023
  9. Paid-only Episode 1: Diversity training

    Published: 10/3/2023
  10. Episode 12: Nuclear power

    Published: 9/26/2023
  11. Episode 11: The AI apocalypse debate

    Published: 9/19/2023
  12. Episode 10: Cash transfers

    Published: 9/12/2023
  13. Episode 9: The placebo effect

    Published: 9/5/2023
  14. Mea Culpa 1

    Published: 9/2/2023
  15. Episode 8: Growth mindset

    Published: 8/29/2023
  16. Episode 7: The LK-99 superconductor, and other physics false dawns

    Published: 8/22/2023
  17. Episode 6: Ultra-processed foods

    Published: 8/15/2023
  18. Episode 5: Vaping, smoking, and popcorn lung

    Published: 8/8/2023
  19. Episode 4: Psychedelics and psychotherapy

    Published: 8/4/2023
  20. Episode 3: Aspartame and the stupid list of things that cause cancer

    Published: 8/1/2023

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A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie sciencefictionspod.substack.com