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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Scrutinizing Science

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, The Naked Scientists are celebrating their 15th birthday and so Graihagh Jackson puts science under the microscope and questions its importance in today's world. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Transcript

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.2

Hello.

0:04.2

Hello.

0:05.2

Welcome.

0:06.2

Science.

0:09.2

And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, space, time, brain, life, the universe.

0:16.3

Hello naked listeners, today we're celebrating our birthday.

0:20.5

It's 15 years since the naked scientists were born and so we're going behind the

0:25.1

scenes of science and media to uncover how scientific discoveries are made.

0:30.1

The three people who shared the Nobel Prize were James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.

0:34.8

What goes on behind the scenes in our own newsroom?

0:38.2

I like to get dinosaurs in there as often as possible.

0:42.2

And how the internet is changing everything and not necessarily for the good.

0:48.0

Is social media changing content in a way that's unhealthy for democracy.

0:54.0

I'm Gere Jackson and this is the Naked Scientists.

0:58.0

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UK Fast.co.

1:08.6

K.

1:09.6

First things first though.

1:11.6

What is the nature of science and progression? Often you hear

1:15.8

about this breakthrough and that discovery, but actually science doesn't really

1:21.0

work like that. In fact, most science isn't groundbreaking at all. It tends to be more incremental

1:27.8

building a picture, pixel by pixel, to color in our understanding of the world.

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