Episode 53: The COVID debate (with Robb Willer and Simine Vazire)

Robb Willer and Simine Vazire join the podcast to debate whether social science, in its current form, can usefully contribute to our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Is psychology ready to give trustworthy advice to policy-makers?

Plus: Yoel shirks his beer-drinking, yet again.

Special Guests: Robb Willer and Simine Vazire.

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Links:

• GRIFTER PALE --The Grifter Brewing Co
• Royal Canadian Mead
• Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human Behaviour
• Is Social and Behavioural Science Evidence Ready for Application and Dissemination?
• PsyArXiv Preprints | Where Are The Self-Correcting Mechanisms In Science?