Stuart Richie News Today

Myth-busting podcast The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Richie investigates science stories in the news and tries to get to the truth at the bottom of them.

Stuart Richie rebuts some of the recent studies: And here’s the thing: when the authors of the “Facebook arrival” study raised their standards in this way,…

And a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it | Science & technology

The deep learning explosion has led to amazing advances in the world of artificial intelligence, but there's a dark side to success.

One mistake we make is to assume that the people who shout the loudest about their research must thus be right, or even know what they’re talking about

“Following the Covid pandemic on Twitter is a maddening experience and I, for my sanity, have been weaning myself off engaging with numerous Covid deniers who, despite their claims to be ‘scientific’, are anything but. Coincidentally, I’ve been reading Stuart Richie’s excellent book, Science Fictions, a book about bias and malpractice in science that should be required reading for all undergraduates. I don’t think students really understand the underlying culture of science and the...