Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

A podcast devoted to curiosity, critical thinking, and the scientific method. Hope to help myself and others "know more and think better." Joined May 2021

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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg1985

4 years ago

Health literacy is a major issue - there's no shortcut for assessing evidence & it takes a lot of skill & training to do so well. As I wrote in Irrational Ape / Good Thinking - it's easy to be misled by the illustration of science - just be cautious 8/8 amazon.co.uk/Irrational-Ape…

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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg1985

4 years ago

Even when I agree with their viewpoint, it undermines public understanding of science to cherry pick evidence to paint these pictures. Advocacy should be based on evidence, not evidence manipulated for advocacy. I think the crucial point is that evidence matters, not opinions 7/n

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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg1985

4 years ago

Crucial thing is that one's qualifications are no guarantee they're representing scientific evidence accurately. One of my biggest frustrations as a scientist the whole pandemic has been seeing academics who should know better misrepresenting evidence to shore up a viewpoint 6/n

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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg1985

4 years ago

One thing that emerges from survey data is that while trust in science is high, understanding of scientific practice itself is societally poor. Sounds innocuous enough, but I'd argue it's a Trojan house for a lot of dangerous nonsense. A short thread.. 1/n

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @SabiVM

4 years ago

Haven’t done one of these in a while! The Covid-19 Vaccine is NOT ‘experimental’.

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Brain @Brain1878

4 years ago

Levy et al. show binding of [18F]MK-6240 in patients with FTD caused by tau mutations, and minimal non-specific binding in FTD caused by non-tau mutations, implying a promising degree of specificity. bit.ly/3vr2fkn

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Dr. Roman Yampolskiy @romanyam

4 years ago

My 2nd interview for the Skeptically Curious Podcast, easily the most undervalued podcast out there. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 15, in which I again interview @romanyam, this time to discuss AI Controllability, AGI, and possible future AI scenarios, both positive and negative, among other topics, is also available on Google Podcasts: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L… #AI #AGI #consciousness #science

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 15, in which I again interview @romanyam, this time to discuss AI Controllability, AGI, and possible future AI scenarios, both positive and negative, among other topics, is also available on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7LO1mE… #AI #AGI #consciousness #science #skepticism

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 15 sees @romanyam return for another great interview. Among other topics, we discuss AI Controllability, AGI, and possible future AI scenarios, both positive and negative. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi… #AI #AGI #consciousness #science #skepticism #robots

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 14, featuring my second interview with Dr. Kent Kiehl, is also available on Google Podcasts: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L… #serialkillers #psychopathy #psychology #neuroscience #freewill

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 14 features my second interview with Dr. Kent Kiehl in which we discuss free will, serial killers (both factual and fictional), the quality of some popular books on psychopaths, and possible treatment for psychopathy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi… #psychopathy #serialkillers

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 14 of Skeptically Curious with Dr. Kent Kiehl: open.spotify.com/episode/3kchNT…... #serialkillers #psychopathy #neuroscience #psychology #freewill #kentkiehl

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 14 features my second interview with Dr. Kent Kiehl in which we discuss free will, serial killers (both factual and fictional), the quality of some popular books on psychopaths, and possible treatment for psychopathy. open.spotify.com/episode/3kchNT…... #serialkillers

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 13 of Skeptically Curious, which features the first of two interviews with one of the world's leading psychopathy researchers, Dr. Kent Kiehl, author of 'The Psychopath Whisperer,' is also available on Google Podcasts: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L… #psychopathy #neuroscience

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 13 of Skeptically Curious features my first interview with one of the world's leading psychopathy researchers, Dr. Kent Kiehl, author of 'The Psychopath Whisperer': podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi… #psychopathy #psychology #neuroscience #kentkiehl

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Skeptically Curious @SkepticallyCur1

4 years ago

Episode 13 of Skeptically Curious features my first interview with one of the world's leading psychopathy researchers, Dr. Kent Kiehl, author of 'The Psychopath Whisperer': open.spotify.com/episode/31Gdp8…... #psychopathy #psychology #neuroscience #kentkiehl

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Michael Mina @michaelmina_lab

4 years ago

I truly dislike the term "Natural Immunity" There is no such thing as artificial immunity A vaccine drives a NATURAL immune response The question is simply "how do you want to start building that immunity?" Through a risky infection or via a safe vaccine Me? I choose vaccine.