The Studies Show

It seems like the most obvious thing in the world: if you do more cancer screening, you’ll catch tumours early and people will be bet...

It sounds like a good idea in theory: a non-peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to pure scientific creativity. Send in your craziest hypotheses and as long as they’re original ideas, the editor will publish them, and let them inspire the readers.

That’s the journal Medical Hypotheses—or, it was. In this episode we discuss some of the maddest pap...

In 2017, Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep became a huge bestseller. It said, among other things, that we are living through an epidemic of sleeplessness, that the less we sleep the sooner we die, and that sleeping less than six hours a night doubles your risk of cancer.

But are its claims as robust as you might hope? Well, you’ve listened to this podcast before, s...

Earlier this year we lost one of the WOATs of bad science: Peter Duesberg, the Berkeley professor who originated nearly all the argum...

It’s been a while. Thank you for sticking with us while we’ve been gone.

Dozens of countries have started taxing sugary drinks over the last couple of decades. You can see the reasoning: if they cost companies more to make, then companies will pass that cost on to consumers, who will buy less, and hopefully get less fat and then die less often of diabetes and heart dise...