The Reality Check

Adam and Darren are reunited and happily hijack this week's show. Darren breaks down the post hoc fallacy, aka 'after this, therefore because of this', and examines it in the context of COVID vaccines...

13 Feb 202125min

In what has become a yearly ritual to highlight the futility of 'predictions', Adam, Producer Pat, and Cristina guess at what might happen in 2021 and revisit the panel's 2020 predictions to see how w...

6 Feb 202128min

Aaand...we're back! This week we dedicate an entire show to chat with our good mate and frequent guest, Dr. Stuart Farrimond, medical doctor turned science communicator and food scientist. Stu joins P...

24 Jan 202157min

Planetary scientist and Hall of Famer guest Dr. Stuart Robbins joins Pat and Cristina to respond to a listener who asks why the Earth experiences two high tides instead of just one. Adam brings us a P...

20 Des 202030min

Adam wonders if brussel sprouts deserve their bad rap for tasting horrible and makes an interesting discovery in the process. Cristina looks into whether the song '12 Days Of Christmas' is coded so pe...

12 Des 202024min

Adam discusses themes from 'The Village Effect' by author and psychologist Susan Pinker who posits that face-to-face contact is crucial for learning, happiness, resilience and longevity. In a related ...

5 Des 202036min

Cristina kicks off the show with a look into why so many music albums run much longer than back in the day. Adam explores whether enormous pyramids were discovered in Antarctica. Lastly, we rerun a se...

29 Nov 202035min

Darren kicks off the show by exploring how to talk and think about causality for something as complicated as 2020's U.S. election. Next, Cristina takes a fascinating look into the rules around naming ...

21 Nov 202026min