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Listeners to The Studies Show: What do you want to know? What are we doing wrong?
Hello! Tom and Stuart here.
Tomorrow we’ll be releasing episode seven of The Studies Show, about that whole business with the room-temperature superconductor which was definitely real and not an obviously foreseeable cockup.
Today, though, we’re offering something to paid subscribers: The chance to ask us anything. It could be questions about previous episodes – do you think we are being overly credulous about Ozempic, or did we entirely miss the point about ultra-processed foods? (We did realise we missed Chris van Tulleken saying that exercise doesn’t burn calories, which is … surprising.)
Or is it something you’d like us to cover in the future? We’re always saying “we should do a whole episode on that,” so we’d love to know whether you agree or whether you’ve got better ideas. We’ve already had some suggestions by email.
Or it could be simple feedback: maybe we’re too quick to use jargon? Should we think about having guests?
We’ll reply to every question asked within 72 hours of the post being published. And we’ll address our favourite questions in a future episode.
If you would like to leave feedback, but can’t: All you have to do is become a paid subscriber! We’re aiming to do our first paid-subscriber-only episodes once we reach 100 paid, which at current rate of growth shouldn’t be too long.
Thanks!
Tom and Stuart
Hello everyone! Thanks so much for all these questions. We'll leave it a couple more days before we start replying properly, but we'll try to answer all of them. And we'll discuss between us which ones we want to address in a future episode! Keep them coming. Thanks again!
This may be too spicy for your show, but I’d love to see a conversation with Jesse Singal about his reporting on puberty blocker studies and research degrees of freedom (e.g., https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-scientific-transparency-researcher).
I also really enjoyed Stuart’s short book on intelligence, and a conversation about IQ (myths and facts) would be really cool