Rationally Speaking #22 - Steven Novella on Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
Rationally Speaking Podcast
New York City Skeptics
4.6 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2010
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Our Guest, Dr. Steven Novella discusses a recent article in The Atlantic in which researcher John Ioannidis shows that 40% of papers published in top medical journals are either wrong or make exaggerated claims (and those are the top journals!). He also discusses the difference between Science and Evidence based medicine. Also, Zombies: are they epidemiologically possible?
Steven Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is the host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, author of the Neurologica blog, and co-editor of the Science Based Medicine blog.
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| 0:00.0 | Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education. |
| 0:22.6 | For more information, please visit us at NYCCEptics.org. |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense. I'm your host, Massimo Pilucci, and with me as always, is my co-host, Julia Galev. |
| 0:45.4 | Julia, what's our topic today? |
| 0:47.6 | Massimo, tonight we are happy to be joined by Stephen Novella, the host of a little podcast that some of you may have heard of called |
| 0:55.1 | The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, as well as the author of the Neurological blog and co-editor |
| 1:00.7 | of the science-based medicine blog. |
| 1:03.2 | And in his free time, he's also an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School |
| 1:08.3 | of Medicine. |
| 1:09.5 | Steve, great to have you on the show. |
| 1:11.6 | Nice to be here, guys. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:13.4 | I didn't know you had any free time, but... |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, right. |
| 1:17.5 | Just a little hobby called academic clinical neurology, that's all. |
| 1:21.4 | All right, Steve. |
| 1:22.3 | We're probably going to be all over the place with you tonight |
| 1:24.9 | because there's so many interesting things to talk about. |
| 1:27.0 | But I wanted to start with a little bit of controversy of which you are aware. |
| 1:32.5 | Recently, the Atlantic, November of this year, published an article by David Friedman entitled Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science. |
| 1:41.9 | And in this article, there are some serious things that emerge from recent meta studies of the |
| 1:52.3 | efficacy of medical research. |
| 1:54.1 | You want to give us the background and tell us what you think about this? |
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