Science Chat – Episode 10: ten23 and Homeopathy

March 17, 2010

In this episode I talk to Martin Robbins, from http://layscience.net/ about the ten23 event and Sheelagh Behan from the Irish Society of Homeopaths http://irishhomeopathy.ie/ about ten23 and homeopathy.
The podcast can be found in the usual place… http://www.sciencechat.podomatic.com/ as well as on iTunes.

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Science Chat – Episode 9: Science Outreach and Imascientist

February 10, 2010

In this episode I talk to Sophia Collins, Producer of the I’m a Scientist Event on http://imascientist.org.uk/, winner of the Sciencewise-ERC People’s choice award for Excellence in Public Engagement with Science in 2009. As you can see the event has got significant recognition by winning this award, and on the podcast you’ll hear how it [...]

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Sceptics choice

February 8, 2010

When I first heard about ten23 (which in case you don’t know was the mass suicide attempt using homeopathic products which took place recently – you can read Martin Robbins description of that event here http://bit.ly/cX9bTH) in relation to homeopathy, I thought that it might have been when homeopathy started up. I mean it would [...]

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The science sceptic’s choice…

January 25, 2010

Isn’t it amazing what research gets hammered by the sceptics and what doesn’t?
Here’s a little test for you…
Two recent reports I read in The Guardian online: one about the risk of glaciers melting due to climate change or global warming http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/25/world-glacier-monitoring-service-figures; and one about how alien visitors would prove to have very human traits such [...]

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Science Chat – Episode 8: Communicating Climate Change

January 20, 2010

At long last the new episode of Science Chat is done… I’m blaming the unseasonably bad weather which came right after the new year which meant that the holiday break was a little extended…
In this episode I talk to Professor Colin O’Dowd, Director of the Centre for Climate & Air Pollution Studies (C-CAPS) in the [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions and all that…

December 31, 2009

“another year over, and a new one just begun” as John Lennon once sang, and for most of us along with the parties and the incredible hangovers that we’ll have tomorrow, there will be the inevitable resolutions.
Some write them down, some tell their friends and family, some keep them to themselves but are just as [...]

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It’s life Jim, but not as we know it…

December 17, 2009

If like me, you believe in the evidence based story of the evolution of human life – all life starting with the Big Bang and so on, instead of the religion based story of one god and us human’s being created by him, then you’ll no doubt be interested in the story I picked up [...]

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Science Conflict – the row over climate change

December 10, 2009

A recent quote from an Irish Times article by Prof. William Reville http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2009/1210/1224260412971.html, regarding the conflict over climate change stated “The CRU affair at least calls for independent re-analysis of much of the data underpinning AGW”.
This highlights for me the issue which covers so much of reported scientific data. Even within the realm of peer [...]

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Science Chat Episode 7

December 10, 2009

The long awaited science comedy episode of Science Chat has arrived…
In it I talk to Brian Malow, science comedian. Brian can be found on his website http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog, as well as on YouTube by searching for Science Comedian. He is also the aptly named @sciencecomedian on twitter.
The podcast itself can be found in the usual [...]

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Science Chat Episode 6

November 30, 2009

This episode of the Science Chat podcast wraps up on science education for a while – I still have a call in to the Irish government for comments from them and I am also sourcing some contributors in the US about the new initiative announced there, so I may come back to it at some [...]

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