Finding Things Out
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Finding things out during the pandemic has been hit and miss: there’ve been miracles, and there’s been junk. What matters is not just what we think we know about how to intervene to improve human health, but how we think we know it. Methods can be inspired, flawed, or both. Michael Blastland tells the short and still-changing story of how science has been trying to get better at finding things out.
Contributions from:
Professor Sir Angus Deaton, Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. Maria Popp. Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Wuerzburg. Professor George Davey Smith, Director of the Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol. Sheena McCormack, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at University College London
Producer: Ben Carter Editor: Jasper Corbett Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
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| 0:41.0 | Thanks for downloading analysis, the podcast about the ideas podcasts. trying to get better at finding things out. |
| 0:56.0 | Have you heard those people going on about using a horse deworm at a beat COVID? |
| 1:01.0 | Ivimectin, it's called. |
| 1:02.0 | It is medicine for horses, medicine for cows, but the Mississippi Poison Control Center has been pelted with calls from people taking Iver Meckton in a dangerous attempt to dodge COVID. |
| 1:15.0 | The FDA tweeting, you are not a horse, you are not a cow, seriously y'all, stop it. |
| 1:21.0 | All was the problem the other way around that some people were trying to suppress the facts and stop as using either mectin. |
| 1:27.5 | They seem to keep saying like the vaccination is the only answer, the only answer. |
| 1:31.5 | And we now know from studies and also from the |
| 1:35.5 | evidence that we saw of the youth of iver mecht in India that it does work that's |
| 1:40.8 | the heat what about the light? |
| 1:44.0 | Weirdly, there hardly is any, despite those studies and evidence just mentioned. |
| 1:50.0 | At the time of writing, this was one of the few opinions on I ever |
| 1:53.2 | I felt I could trust. Our main finding is that we found absolutely no |
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