#15 Drowning in good intentions - with Kate Rusk of InertiaTV

Kate Rusk of Inertia TV, along with Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown of the EvolutionMedicine podcast do a deep dive on the placebo effect. Why did this capacity evolve in the first place? How can we harne...

2 Juni 201853min

This year, evolutionary anthropologist Kate Rusk began a streaming video science channel, called Inertia TV, that streams great science programming, including this program: Evolutionary Medicine with ...

31 Maj 20181h 26min

Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock discuss the perils and pitfalls of too much oxygen. We discuss the recent IOTA study - a metaanalysis done by Paul Young's team and the upcoming ICUROX trial. This evidence...

31 Maj 20181h 1min

Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown have a discussion about evolution, medical decision making, and cognitive biases. We focus on a few major cognitive biases - achor bias, attribution bias, immediacy bias, h...

11 Apr 20181h 9min

This week Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown get into the weeds of the ADRENAL trial - a huge study designed to answer the question - does giving steroids to patients with sepsis help or hurt? I say it hurts...

29 Jan 20181h 13min

Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown discuss evolution, creationism, race and plenty of other hot topics while trying to explain why evolution gets no love in medical school

12 Jan 20181h 10min

This is a previously episode first recorded in early 2017. It is timely, though, because a major trial on the effects of corticosteroids - the ADRENAL trial - will soon be made public. In this podcast...

5 Jan 201817min