Strange Quarks Podcast on the Pulse Project
Summary: Strange Quarks is a podcast that peers into the fringes of science and pseudoscience, and covers the battle for science-based politics in Britain and around the world with the help of some interesting guests. It’s presented by Martin Robbins and Michael Marshall on behalf of the Pulse Project.
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Podcasts:
Strange Quarks: Series 3 Episode 4 (Stevyn Colgan)
Strange Quarks: Series 3 Episode 3 (Mark Henderson)
Strange Quarks: Series 3 Episode 2 (Deborah Hyde)
Controversial environmentalist, author and presidential advisor Mark Lynas talks about his change of heart over nuclear power and genetically modified crops, and explains why some of the biggest challenges to environmentalist come from the political left.
29 March 2011: Michael Marshall chats to Willem Betz from the Belgian Skeptics organisation Skepp about the regulation of alternative medicine within the EU, and the ways in which loopholes in those regulations have been created and exploited by homeopaths.
22 March 2011: Michael Marshall chats to Naomi Phillips, head of Public Affairs at the British Humanist Association, about the Census Campaign, and why the non-religious should make their presence known.
15 March 2011: James Randi speaks to Michael Marshall about homeopathy in the US, his support for the 10:23 Campaign, and the long history of the JREF in tackling psudoscience across the pond. Also in the show, Kylie Sturgess reports on the placebo effect.
Amy Scobee speaks to Michael Marshall about her 27 years in Scientology, her time in the very depths of Sea Org and her eventual exit from the cult, while Jon Treadway reports on the Art of Skepticsm.
Strange Quarks: Series 2 Episode 1
Strange Quarks: Series 1 Episode 6
7th December, 2010: Elizabeth Pisani chats to us about data sharing in science, the spread of AIDS, and the importance - or otherwise - of the Pope's comments on condoms.
Strange Quarks: Series 1 Episode 4
Johann Hari talks about faith schools, social cohesion in Britain, and the 1950s British utopia dreamed of by the right, while teacher Conor Blevin describes a school trip to a mosque that took a strange turn.
Rebecca Watson talks about psychics, being a dick, and being a dick to psychics, while Stuart Sorensen describes a rogue charity who are out to sterilize the poor and vulnerable.
2nd November, 2010: Simon Singh and Simon Perry on libel reform, Carols for Godless people, and grass roots activism.
