The Studies Show Podcast
1) Episode 58: Psychopathy
Patrick Bateman. Hannibal Lecter. Ted Bundy. The guy who used to live downstairs from me. Psychopaths, every one. Except defining psychopathy, let alone measuring it, turns out to be surprisingly cont...Show More
2) Episode 82: Paper mills
In our last standard episode, we talked about retraction—removing papers from the scientific literature. Well, it turns out there’s an awful lot of retraction to do, in large part due to paper mills. ...Show More
3) Unpaywalled: Diversity training
We’re very sorry about the disrupted service over this summer! It’s been hectic with work and a house move and various things. To tide you over, here’s a formerly paywalled episode: our very first one...Show More
4) Episode 81: Retraction
RETRACTED // In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart discuss retraction, the process of removing articles from the scientific record. How often is it due to fraud? How many papers get retr...Show More
5) Episode 80: Mindfulness meditation
Pay attention. Focus on your breathing. Live in the moment. Accept yourself. Do you have a self? Focus on that self. And so on. This is, of course, the practice of mindfulness meditation, which seems ...Show More
6) Episode 79: Cancer rates
Are cancer rates going up or down? It seems like depending on where you look, you’ll find different answers to the question. What’s going on here — have some writers just got it completely wrong? Is i...Show More
7) Episode 78: Worm wars and mouth bacteria
Seconds out! Round one! Ding ding! And other boxing terms. We’ve found a topic on which Tom and Stuart actually disagree. Kind of. In this episode of The Studies Show, they use the examples of “the wo...Show More
8) Paid-only Episode 21: Psychological sex differences
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thestudiesshowpod.comInspired by a new Nature paper on how the “maths gap” emerges between girls and boys in school, Tom and Stuart lo...Show More
9) Episode 77: Anti-ageing, part 1
Whether it’s people giving themselves goat blood transfusions in an effort to maintain their youth, or yet another influencer telling you to buy XYZ miracle supplements, anti-ageing is big business. I...Show More
10) Episode 76: The four-day week
Would you like to do 80% of your current job but for 100% of the pay? Well, of course you would. But would it be good for the economy? It’s been suggested that companies who move to four-day working w...Show More