35: A manifesto for reproducible science
Dan and James discuss a new paper in the inaugural issue of Nature Human Behaviour, "A manifesto for reproducible science". Some of the topics covered: What's a manfesto for reproducibility doing ...
20 Jan 201750min
34: E-health (with Robin Kok)
Dan and James have their very first guest! For this episode they're joined by Robin Kok (University of Southern Denmark) to talk e-health. They also cover a recent blog post that inadvertently highlig...
22 Des 20161h
33: Zombie theories
Dan and James discuss Zombie theories, which are scientific ideas that continue to live on in the absence of evidence. Why do these ideas persist and how do we kill them for good? Some of the topics c...
16 Des 201643min
32: Can worrying about getting sick make you sicker?
Dan and James discuss a new population study that linked health anxiety data with future heart disease. Some of the topics covered: Web MD and health anxiety How would healthy anxiety contribute to h...
1 Des 201643min
31: Discover your psychiatric risk with this one weird trick
Dan and James discuss a recent study of over one million Swedish men that found that higher resting heart rate late adolescence was associated with an increased risk for subsequent psychiatric illness...
16 Nov 201654min
30: Authorship
Dan and James discuss authorship in the biomedical sciences
2 Nov 201649min
29: Learning new skills
Dan and James talk about how they learn new things. Some of the topics discussed: Internet memes Consolidating old ideas rather than learning new ones Why learn a new skill when you just get someone e...
16 Okt 201648min
28: Positive developments in biomedical science
Pre-registration, p-hacking, power, protocols. All these concepts are pretty mainstream in 2016 but hardly discussed 5 years ago. In this episode, James and Dan talk about these ideas and other develo...
30 Sep 201649min
