EV - 240 Meta-analysis skepticism with Jonathan Jarry

My guest this week is Jonathan Jarry (@crackedscience), a science communicator with McGill University’s Office of Science and Society, and cohost of the independent podcast The Body of Evidence. We discuss his article about common problems with meta-analyses and how to approach trying to understand controversial science claims. We also discuss anti-COVID Jade amulets and in the VIP room we talk the ethics of unfollowing me on twitter. Jonathan's website: https://t.co/e2xUQ4ClQw Meta-analyses paper: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/even-best-scientific-studies-can-lie-case-craniosacral-therapy Jade amulet paper: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-pseudoscience/paper-argues-amulet-may-protect-covid-should-it-have-been-published Convocation: Nick Harkaway Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps! Recent appearances: I was on Ben Burgis's youtube channel debating free will and moral luck: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1516786030854262788?s=20&t=q3yiNlMdkxoDCu1yHCig-w Here's the What's left of Phil link for the other chat on this subject: https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg Upcoming appearances: Stay tuned, got a few invites this past weekend so hopefully will have some info here soon! Next week: Persisting White supremacy in movement secularism with Mandisa Thomas

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Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever enough to do anything about it. The void seems terrible and cruel, but it loves you, in its own ironic way.