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 93: Many analysts
Hereâs a cheery one for our first episode of the year. Guess what happens when you give several sets of scientists the same dataset and ask them to answer the same question? Well, they all find the sa...Show More
3) A Christmas 2025 compendium
Weâve covered a lot of bad science stories over the year. Here are a few more. But in the optimistic spirit of the âholiday seasonâ, the last one has a happy ending. Thanks for listeningâespecially if...Show More
4) Episode 92: Oliver Sacks
STOP PRESS: a beloved 20th Century populariser of psychology who wrote massively successful books has been shown to be full of crap. Actually⊠donât stop press. Just put it on the pile with all the ot...Show More
5) Paid-only episode 25: The menopause and hormone replacement therapy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sciencefictionspod.substack.comDoes the evidence support the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT)? Depends on when you asked the quest...Show More
6) Unpaywalled: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media
Hello everyone! We werenât able to record a podcast this week, because 1) Stuart was busy and 2) itâs Tomâs birthday. So by way of apology weâre re-releasing this one about some drama last year betwee...Show More
7) Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web
Everyone has read Entangled Life, the wonderfully-written book aboit fungi that took the world by storm about 5 years ago. Among many other things, it popularised the âwood wide webââthe idea that tre...Show More
8) Episode 90: Cognitive dissonance
It has happened again. A new paper, based on a tranche of unsealed historical documents, casts serious doubt on a piece of social psychology research from the mid-20th Century. Shocker!This time itâs ...Show More
9) Paid-only episode 24: Creatine
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sciencefictionspod.substack.comCreatine is the supplement of the moment, but both of us had vaguely heard that this one might actually not...Show More
10) Episode 89: Halloween special on reincarnation
Around these parts, we have a tradition to do a paranormal episode at Halloween. Weâve done psychic powers, ghosts, and now⊠reincarnation. What are we to make of the storiesâsometimes told in NYT-bes...Show More