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The Food Medic

S4 EP 7 PART 1: INFERIOR: How Science Got Women Wrong

The Food Medic

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this two part episode, Dr Hazel is joined by Angela Saini, an award-winning science journalist who holds Masters degrees in Engineering from The University of Oxford, and in Science and Security from King’s College London. Angela is also author of the books Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and Superior: The Return of Race Science.In part 1 they discuss the effect of sexism on scientific research, how scientists often reinforce sex and gender stereotypes - instead of challenging them, and how sexism influences social beliefs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:04.2

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.2

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.9

Mmm, that is good.

0:12.9

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:15.8

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:19.0

Delicious.

0:20.9

Hello and a very big welcome back to the Food Medic podcast.

0:24.6

I'm your host, Dr. Hazel Wallace.

0:27.0

So on this episode, I'm joined by Angela Saney,

0:30.3

who is an award-winning science journalist

0:32.2

who holds master's degree in engineering

0:34.4

from the University of Oxford

0:35.8

and in Science and Security from King's College London.

0:40.3

Her latest book, Superior, The Return of Race Science, was one of Nature's top ten books of

0:45.5

2019 and won the Transmission Prize. It was also named a book of the year by the Financial

0:51.6

Times, The Guardian, the Telegraph and the Sunday Times.

0:56.2

Angela also wrote Inferior how science got women wrong, which explores the effect of sexism on scientific research.

1:03.0

So this is a two-part episode, and on the first part of this episode, we are going to talk about the effect of sexism on scientific research, how scientists often

1:12.7

reinforce sex and gender stereotypes instead of challenging them, and how sexism influences social

1:19.9

beliefs. In the second part of this episode, we discuss her second book, Superior, The Return of

1:26.0

race science. Just to start off, it would be great

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