British Pseudoscience w/ Simon Singh

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

While visiting Manchester for the QED Conference, Cara sits down with journalist, author, and television producer Dr. Simon Singh about his rich and fascinating career in science media and skepticism. They discuss his journey from particle physicist at CERN to bestselling author (The Code Book, The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, etc.), including his love of math (or maths, for the British listeners!). They also talk about Simon's role in libel reform in England, following the influential court case "British Chiropractic Association v. Singh."

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0:00.0	Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It's Monday, October 24th and I'm your
0:20.1	host Kara Santa Maria.
0:22.5	I want to thank those of you who made Talk Nurdy possible this week by supporting
0:26.8	the show in the many ways that you do, especially those of you who visited
0:30.2	www.patreon.com slash TalkNurdy or visited visited W.W.
0:33.9	or visited my website kara Santa Maria
0:36.8	and clicked through the Patreon button.
0:40.8	Specifically, I want to thank Phil T-Bare. Ron Cano Block, Pedro Rosario Barbosa,
0:48.9	Stuart Aog, Charles Payit, Gabriel Fel Felipe Hermillo Gonzalez, The Honorable Husband, Brian Holden, Jaith, and Jeffrey Sewell.
1:01.5	Thank you so much. Without you, the podcast would absolutely not be possible.
1:06.7	All right, guys, I'm a little under the weather,
1:08.4	having come back from Manchester recently.
1:10.9	I think I caught something on the plane.
1:13.0	But, so I'm going to keep this short and sweet, but I'm really excited about this week's episode.
1:18.0	I had an opportunity to sit down with Simon Singh. He's a journalist and author, a television producer, and was trained
1:27.4	as a particle physicist and he's a big math enthusiast as you can tell through many of his books including the
1:36.2	code book the Simpsons and their mathematical secrets the Bang, trick or treatment, and more.
1:47.0	All right, guys, without any further ado, here he is Simon Singh.
1:52.0	Well, Simon, thank you so much for sitting down with me to talk
1:54.5	nerdy today. My pleasure. So probably the last time that I saw you in
2:01.3	person I think may have been at a TAM.
2:05.0	Yes, maybe Tam three or four years ago, maybe.
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