Oct 8, 2026

Friend of the show, Nick Tiller has a new book out looking at the wellness industry and why we have such trouble distinguishing fact from fiction when it comes to your well-being. Hint: money and marketing play a role. 

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Oct 1, 2026

Diverticulosis patients are often told to avoid seeds and nuts because small food particles will get stuck in the crevices of their colon and cause diverticulitis. But that may not be true. Chris and Sophie debunk this oft repeated piece of advice for a disase that Sophie never heard of until today.

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Sep 24, 2026

Many of us assume that we are visual learners, or we learn by doing or by seeing something on the printed page. Whether you’ve heard of it or not, the VARK system has probably influenced how you think you learn best. But it’s complete pseudoscience. Katie Dyer joins to debunk one of the most long held and...

Sep 17, 2026

A viewer question asks how dangerous marathons and longer races are. Also, there is new data about coronary calcifications in marathon runners. Given that the first person to ever run a marathon dropped dead in the Agora of Athens after delivering his fateful message, there are reasons to be concerned that very long...

Sep 10, 2026

The term has become synonymous with ignorance, incompetence, nincompoopery, crankiness and just being dumb. But what does the Dunning-Kruger effect really mean and is it even real?? David Dunning joins to discuss how much of the popular understanding is actually evidence based.

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