Hey everyone Ben Cooper Radio episode number don't worry about minor details so I asked

Tom to do today's podcast I wanted him to do it on discussing the research compared to what the media delivers in the research.

Like how do we know what is good research?

How do we look at if the claims are true?

There's lots of things that we see in the media and we kind of

of think, oh that can't be true but then obviously our brain things will could it be

it's the media it's their job to report things so here is Tom to discuss the topic of the media versus the

research on what we should believe because ultimately if we can develop a

critical thinking mind that's able to waft through all the crap that is on the

internet then all the better for us it empowers us to find and be able to

disseminate good from bad information. Here it is.

Hello and welcome to Ben Coomb radio.

So here you are in this very early morning with me Tom Bainbridge.

I am the usual co-host but I've been given the rains this week so I'm sat here

It is half five in the morning, so I'm gonna try and keep my voice down I do apologize

But Ben's asked me to record a solo show this week and I thought I would cover a topic that's

it's something that I feel quite strongly about and it's something that I

would say kind of grinds my gears.

And that is the way that the media talks about research because what you often find

is that a lot of people, perhaps not you listeners, but a lot of people will get the majority of their nutrition information, their health and

fitness information from Facebook, other forms of social media and perhaps newspapers and even

the news. And that means that what we are getting in the

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