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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know what I'm a victim of? |
0:02.8 | Misinformation on the internet. |
0:04.9 | Whoa do I love it. |
0:07.2 | Ooh! I love it. |
0:09.7 | A headline from a random non reputable source that says, |
0:17.4 | turmeric will cure your depression. |
0:21.9 | Okay, I'm clicking, okay, I'm ordering Tombric on Amazon. I am not safe from this side of the |
0:30.7 | internet. It's not even like the side of the internet. The internet |
0:34.8 | is filled with truth, lies, and everything in between. There's always a lot of |
0:41.0 | hearsay going on. Okay, there's just a whole lot of hearsay on the internet, |
0:44.0 | and none of us are saved from it. |
0:47.0 | But today I have a treat for all of us. |
0:49.0 | Wendy Zookerman, a science journalist for over a decade, reporting on everything from |
0:56.8 | octopus intelligence to superbugs to Ozempic. Think of a topic. Wendy has probably read 15 studies about it. She started |
1:11.2 | her career as the Australian Correspondent for New Scientist magazine |
1:16.8 | and then went to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. |
1:20.1 | And in 2015, Wendy started to notice health care trends that were very misinformed. |
1:27.6 | And that's when she came up with the concept for her podcast, Science Versus, where she basically takes a topic and lays all the science out on the table |
1:38.0 | because again there's just a whole lot of hearsay all the time. |
1:42.0 | We're just going to answer some questions. Again, there's just a whole lot of hearsay all the time. |
1:42.8 | We're just gonna answer some questions that I have today |
1:46.4 | because she's sort of like a walking scientific journal. |
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