The Wholesome Show

Three doctors sat down for a picnic by a river. An emergency physician, an intensive care specialist, and an epidemiologist. Suddenly they notice a body in the water! They rush into the current to pull the man ashore, clear his airways and start giving CPR. But then they see another person in the water, face down. They rush out, and drag her in. They clear her airways and do CPR. But then a third body comes floating by! Suddenly the epidemiologist gets up and starts running. “Hey! Come back! Where are you going?” the others scream out to her. Looking over her shoulder she yell back: “I’m going upstream to see who’s throwing all these people in!” Welcome to a series of episodes we're calling Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with that epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. Over the next 7 episodes we'll talk to a range of key voices in the field of population health science, and reflect on what it all means. Enjoy! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.

Do you believe in the paranormal? In ghosts? In spoon bending? In the ability to move objects with your mind? If you're like most rational science minded folks, then - wait for this - I can read your mind and your answer is 'hell no!' But what if we told you that science itself... might not be so sure... We explore the world of extrasensory perception and the replication crisis! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS! -------------------------- Sources: · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Bem · http://www.cornell.edu/search/?q=BEM&submit-search= · https://psychology.cornell.edu/daryl-bem · http://dbem.org/bem_bio.htm · http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/12/study-looks-brains-ability-see-future · https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/06/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html · https://www.csicop.org/si/show/failure_to_replicate_results_of_bem_parapsychology_experiments_published_by · https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/my-email-correspondence-with-daryl-j-bem-about-the-data-for-his-2011-article-feeling-the-future/ · https://www.wired.com/2010/11/feeling-the-future-is-precognition-possible/ · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alpha · https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html · http://andrewgelman.com/2017/04/04/study-showing-humans-psychic-powers-caps-daryl-bems-career/ · http://dbem.org/ · http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/Chronicle_Jan_1_17.pdf · https://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2012/05/15/daryl-bem-the-psychologist-who-proved-esp-exists/ · http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-paranormal-circumstances-scientist-mission-esp

Do you experience a salty taste when your elbow touches things? Or the aroma of oysters when you listen to Brahms? If it's not hallucinogenic drugs, then it's probably synaesthesia! We sat down with Dr Stephanie Goodhew to explore all the different flavour and dimension combinations under the sun! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!

Your phone rings. But instead of your normal ringtone*... it's a weird voice saying "The person calling you is dishonest! The person calling you is dishonest!" Welcome to the brave new world of China's rapidly developing Social Credit System - where trustworthy citizens earn points they can convert into free umbrella rental, and the untrustworthy find themselves blocked from flights, loans, houses and decent ringtones. We sat down to explore - also learning about a finance system based on dick pics! A hacker website called FraudBoom! And government vetoed trips to Bunnings! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS *A chiptunes version of Shooting Stars oh yeah Team Wholesome know how to party! References here! https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/ https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4?r=US&IR=T https://theconversation.com/chinas-social-credit-system-puts-its-people-under-pressure-to-be-model-citizens-89963 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-31/chinas-social-credit-system-punishes-untrustworthy-citizens/9596204 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/china-deploys-ai-cameras-to-tackle-jaywalkers-in-shenzhen/9567430 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/china-using-big-data-to-detain-people-in-re-education-before-crime-committed-report/article38126551/ort located by the rights organization. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2018/04/no-china-isn-t-black-mirror-social-credit-scores-are-more-complex-and-sinister http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186 https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/12/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklist http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2543/pdf/ch06_forum_loubere.pdf http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/unprecedented-reach-of-chinas-surveillance-state https://www.merics.org/en/microsite/china-monitor/chinas-social-credit-system https://www.merics.org/sites/default/files/2017-09/China%20Monitor_39_SOCS_EN.pdf https://www.merics.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/171212_China_Monitor_43_Social_Credit_System_Implementation.pdf https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sohu.com%2Fa%2F155992905_380621&edit-text= http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/03/life-inside-chinas-social-credit-laboratory/ http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/24/chinese-citizens-want-the-government-to-rank-them/ https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Should your boss by you some trainers? Ruthless capitalists probably say no, but they're dickheads and wrong about a lot. Sensible people are starting realise more and more that the answer is probably yes - it'll make you healthier, and make their workplace more productive! We sat down for a workplace health and wellbeing inspection (not an audit) with the awesome Christine and Michael from Healthier Work ACT. As well as the benefits of a running shoe subsidy scheme, we also learned that scorecards are better than audits, you shouldn't sit on maggot farms, and cinema advertising works! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!

Does a huge head correlate with intelligence? No listener, of course it doesn't! But people used to think that, and wanted to craft society on that basis... But here's the strange thing. While you might be thinking eugenics is just a historical topic, I hate to break it to you listener, there's still some folk out there who truly believe... Rod and Will sit down for a beer to explore! Also: We explore the problems that occur when your research participants speak to the press! Also economic eugenics! And finally, nine other words that start with Eu: Euphemism! Euthanize! Euphorbia! Euphonium! Euthyroid! Eutrophic! Eukaryote! Eutectoid! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!

Simple question listener, but would you cut your arm off and add a totally awesome prosthetic snake arm thing instead? Because people are doing that now and that's ***totally radical***! Or a complicated ethical leap for society to take. You know, one of the two. We sat down for a beer with Professor Margrit Shildrick, Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production at Linkoping University, Sweden, to talk all things prostheses! Also: Will admits to feelings that are right but wrong but weird but right! Don't explore them or judge them please. The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS

When I say the word 'hypervisibility', do you think of those awesome t-shirts in the 1980s that changed colour when you sweated? You probably should, but then you should also think of the problems faced by high profile women scientists and science communicators. They're hypervisible, which means trolls, attacks and threats... Kate Hannah of Te Pūnaha Matatini (which means 'The Meeting Place of Many Faces') tells us more... Also: Will pronounces something pretty good for an Australian! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!

Lots of us think of science as a provider of solutions - but you know what? It's also - no matter how careful we might be - a provider of problems too. Professor Maja Horst of the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen is fascinated in this, and the ways tabloid newspapers explore the problems and heroes of science. We had a chat to hear more! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!

I hate to burst your bubble, but it turns out Freud was wrong! Reliving the past is not a universal panacea - particularly if your past involves hyper traumatic conflict situations... Associate Professor Karen Brounéus is a peace and conflict researcher, exploring how the ideas of science communication can help in post conflict situations... This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS

Hey there listener, do you use evidence in your everyday decisions? Of course you do! For some of them at least... But how evidential is your evidence? Do you test it? Or do you actually use your gut a whole lot more than you think?... We had a chat with former bitter journalist - and now naive and happy academic Ayelet Baram-Tsabari from Technion - and here's the evidence! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!

How's your emoji game? Do you know your wild eye face from your eyeroll? Your tears of laughter (straight face) from your tears of laughter (angle face)? Which can you use to communicate science? We sat down for a (coffee cup emoji) with Dr Lulu Mateos from BUAP's Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación in Mexico to talk emoji use in communicating science! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS

Listener, do you know what a doyen is? We don't, but if there's an international doyen of science communication, then that doyen would probably be Professor Alan Irwin of the Copenhagen Business School - Department of Organisation! We had a great chat with doyen Alan at the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand, talking the invention of citizen science, Danish Consensus Conferences and book covers! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS

Sexism continues to present massive barriers in science. But can science communication training get scientists to think differently about the behaviours and structures that shape our scientific world? We had a chat to Dr Christine O'Connell of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University to explore more... We also found out that American people have never heard of fruit toast! And they have puny electricity! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!

Hey listener, are you one of those people who sits in science fiction movies grumbling about the inaccurate physics, or are you happy with the magical properties of vibranium? Well, if you're one of the first group, it may please you to realise that Hollywood is getting better at science. We talked to someone who studies this, Professor David Kirby of The University of Manchester! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS