The DemystifySci Podcast

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Elisabeth Bik is a Dutch microbiologist who has a talent for identifying duplicated patterns. She turned her attention to the question of scientific integrity more than a decade ago, and has since been responsible for the retraction of more than a thousand papers that have blatant image manipulation in them. We talk to her about the work of image sleuthing, the nature of science that induces people to fake data, the impact of rotten data filling low-tier journals, and how questionable practices reach all the way to the top. Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:45) Elizabeth Bik, Science Detective (00:12:40) Slippery slope of scientific fraud (00:21:13) Up close and personal with the consequences (00:31:15) Is publishing garbage really that bad? (00:40:04) Is fraud a modern problem? (00:53:14) Hidden problems (01:02:23) The nature of ethical infractions (01:07:20) Why Nastia hates western blots (01:17:13) Papers, power, and a fall from grace (01:26:23) Why Pubpeer is amazing (01:34:04) What happened at Stanford? (01:36:37) Big science, big money (01:44:57) Questions of succession & legacy (01:54:35) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #ScientificIntegrity, #ResearchEthics, #AcademicMisconduct, #ImageSleuthing, #PublicationEthics, #ResearchIntegrity, #AcademicIntegrity, #ScientificCommunity, #PeerReview, #ScientificPublishing, #AcademicTransparency, #DataIntegrity, #ScholarlyIntegrity, #EthicalScience, #ResearchMisconduct, #AcademicHonesty, #ScienceEthics, #FraudDetection, #PeerReviewed, #OpenScience Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who turned her attention to an infamous neurodevelopmental epidemic when a friend’s child was suddenly diagnosed with the condition. Using her technical knowledge of natural language processing systems, Seneff set out to untangle the biological literature to see if it was possible to identify an environmental contaminant that could be responsible for the exploding numbers of diagnoses. To her surprise, there was a robust correlation with widespread use of glyphosate, an herbicide that is the main ingredient of the Monsanto product Round-up. We talk about her path to uncovering the correlation, a potential biochemical mechanism for how it could be involved in so many disorders, and the controversy that has swirled after she went public with her findings. Check out her book and support the podcast at the same time here: https://amzn.to/3uW5pRb Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:08:26) Wrestling with corporate interests (00:17:20) Difficulties of getting to the bottom of biology (00:27:36) Damaging metabolism manifests as disease (00:33:01) What's going on with deuterium? (00:38:09) How glyphosate damages metabolic function (00:47:34) Reducing the impact of glyphosate post exposure (01:00:02) Inflammation as the root of disease (01:12:40) Is damage cumulative? (01:17:14) Why isn't this experimentally proven yet? (01:26:38) Bayer acquires Monsanto (01:35:34) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #GlyphosateResearch, #MonsantoControversy, #HealthScience, #EnvironmentalHealth, #SciencePodcast, #PublicHealth, #BiomedicalResearch, #ToxicChemicals, #HealthControversy, #ChemicalExposure, #Neurodevelopment, #ScientificDiscovery, #HerbicideImpact, #GlyphosateDebate, #EnvironmentalToxins, #MedicalScience, #Neurobiology, #ToxicityAwareness Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Daniel Joachim Kleiven is a philosopher and economist with a fondness for Aristotle and St. Thomas who we found through a recent IAI article entitled “The Laws of Nature Explain Very Little.” In it, Joachim makes an argument that mathematics are a poor substitute for true understanding, and so cannot be considered ground truth of the universe. We discuss the philosophical path that brought him to this realization, the long history of people agonizing over this question, and what he suggests we replace mathematics with. Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:27) What is under the math? (00:05:28) Preserving the mind in a theory of nature (00:09:45) Philosophy as a relic in science (00:16:17) The laws of nature miss key parts of the world (00:24:24) Forces as hand of god (00:31:26) Aristotles theory of final cause (00:53:07) Laws converge on physical actors right? (01:09:13) The human animal (01:27:35) Myth does what science can't (01:43:42) Recruiting metaphysics (01:53:26) What might hide behind the laws of nature? (02:03:16) Objectivity of metaphysics? (02:18:07) Life as source of motion (02:29:06) Bruno & Galileo myths (02:36:41) Power, beliefs, philosophy #Physics, #Philosophy, #Science, #Metaphysics, #Mathematics, #Aristotle, #StThomas, #Nature, #LawsOfNature, #Mythology, #MathematicalConstants, #FineStructureConstant, #Reality, #Universe, #PodcastDiscussion, #IAIArticle, #Understanding, #ExplanatoryLimits, #PhilosophicalInquiry, #MindAndNature Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Dr. Alexander Unizicker is a writer, teacher, and host of Unzicker’s Real Physics ( @TheMachian ) , who is back for a fourth conversation on the DemystifySci Podcast. In this episode we discuss the origin of the mathematical constants found throughout physics, which ones of them are truly fundamental, which ones can be further simplified, and try to figure out if the constants are telling us something significant about how the universe is organized. Buy Alexander's books here & support the podcast: https://amzn.to/3uViH0d Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:05:28) What does an ultimate theory of physics accomplish? (00:11:23) Constants of nature are the new gods (00:19:13) Calculating the constants of nature from first principles (00:33:39) Significance of the fine structure constant (00:53:25) Constants refer to material properties (01:06:27) Bodies v. abstractions (01:16:48) Size of the universe? (01:28:16) mapping the atom from fine structure constant (01:38:54) What is measured during particle collisions? (01:49:04) What's more fundamental than distance & change? (01:57:58) Meaning of the SOL (02:07:53) Publishing on the liquid sun #PhysicsDiscussion, #MathematicalConstants, #FundamentalPhysics, #UniverseOrganization, #Cosmology, #FineStructureConstant, #ConstantsOfNature, #MaterialProperties, #AbstractConcepts, #UniverseSize, #AtomicMapping, #ParticleCollisions, #FundamentalsOfPhysics Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we are setting sail on a captivating journey through biblical scholarship and linguistic analysis with biblical scholar Dr. Jennifer Grace Bird. Dr. Bird brings a wide range of disciplines to her analysis from mathematics to theology and especially direct translations from antiquity. Discover the evolution of sacred texts over millennia, shaped by power dynamics, cultural influences, and linguistic sleight of hand. We explore the changing meanings of parables, the impact of imperialism, and the enduring quest for mysticism. Join us for an illuminating exploration of language, society, and power in interpreting ancient wisdom. Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Support the podcast and Dr. Bird when you pick up her books here: https://amzn.to/49iVDHS (00:00:00) Go! (00:06:19) Learning to approach history text first (00:18:28) Cultural roots of law and language (00:28:50) Imperialism as default in the ancient world (00:36:51) Babylonian Exile and Assembly of the Torah (00:55:18) Orthogonal values of empires and citizens (01:10:46) The natural intrigue of simple narratives (01:22:29) The DC Family (01:32:49) Mysticism as a fundamental human need (01:42:04) Self-censoring controversial ideas (01:54:19) Edited histories across disciplines (02:02:02) The new atheists (02:11:54) Functional mutations in institutional doctrine (02:20:23) Foundation of natural law (02:22:42) Closing thoughts #BiblicalScholar, #LinguisticAnalysis, #AncientTexts, #HistoricalInterpretation, #PowerandLanguage, #TextualEvolution, #CulturalRoots, #ImperialInfluence, #BiblicalTranslation, #InterpretationShifts, #ParableMeaning, #Mysticism, #ReligiousHistory, #InstitutionalDoctrine, #BiblicalStudies, #ScripturalAnalysis, #SocialPower, #HistoricalContext, #LanguageEvolution, #InterpretationTrends, #sciencepodcast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dive into the fascinating world of consciousness and perception with Andres Gomez Emilsson as he explores the neural mechanics of hallucination, psychedelic experiences, and altered states of consciousness. Discover insights into the mysteries of the mind, the refresh rate of perception, and the Cartesian theater. Uncover the shared experience of DMT entities, the geometry of DMT, and the realignment mechanisms post-psychedelic use.

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Edward Chancellor is a British financial historian who, in a previous life, was an investment banker in New York and Boston from the early 1990s through 2014. He has been named as “one of the greatest financial historians alive” by Fortune magazine, as a result of his prediction of the last two economic bubbles, detailed in his books Devil Take Hindmost, about financial speculation during the dot com bubble and Crunch Time for Credit, about the 2005 housing bubble. He’s attempting the hat trick of economic doomsaying with his most recent book, The Price of Time, all about the true role of interest rates in economic crashes. He argues that abnormally low interest rates coupled to a policy of perpetual quantitative easing has led to an “everything bubble” where all assets, everywhere, are tremendously overvalued. We talk about how he came up with this theory, the poorly understood role of interest, what can be learned from economic collapses of hundreds of years ago, and how theory doesn’t always line up with reality. Buy Edward Chancellor's Books, Support the Podcast: https://amzn.to/4bBmG2O Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:59) Economics has no laboratory (00:16:13) Forgetting history (00:38:10) Malincentives at the Fed (00:53:23) Too big to fail? Autonomous financial algos (01:00:43) Monastic/social biphasic life (01:05:48) At the edge of whats known (01:16:39) External pressure to regulate the economy (01:29:48) The real role of interest (01:38:55) Michael Hudson's theory on taxing unearned income (01:52:26) Modern monopolies (02:06:10) Predicting the next speculative bubble (02:12:46) Bullshit jobs (02:21:45) Takeaways #financialhistory #investmentbanking #economicbubbles #speculation #EdwardChancellor #interestrates #quantitativeeasing #everythingbubble #economiccrashes #financialspeculation #economics #economictheory #marketcrashes #financialregulation #economiccollapse Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Journalist and author John Horgan discusses the concept of the end of science and the limitations of human knowledge. Topics explored include the challenges of quantum physics, the evolving landscape of scientific understanding, and the potential cultural implications of the end of science. The podcast also touches on the skepticism towards the Big Bang theory and the limitations of our understanding of evolution. Humorous anecdotes and discussions about the enjoyment of work and future projects are also included.

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we're on an astronomical journey with astrophysicist Dr. Amaury Triaud, a prolific discoverer of over a hundred exoplanets, who shares insights gained from his extensive observatory visits in the Atacama desert and his recent adventure building a telescope in Antarctica. Jump into the revolutionary world of exoplanetary astronomy as Dr. Triaud unravels mysteries surrounding changing planetary orbits, planetary ejection, and the intriguing dynamics of distant planetary systems. We explore the cosmic narratives reshaped by newfound knowledge, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of solar system formation and evolution. Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:22) So, Antarctica? (00:08:04) Telescope Conditions on the Southern Continent (00:12:37) Can you hit the gym? (00:16:29) Travel with a purpose (00:22:19) Building what no one else can (00:27:21) Exoplanets, what are they? (00:38:32) More than one way to form a solar system? (00:50:02) Fate of aborted stellar formation remnants? (01:01:08) A directional search for planets (01:04:18) Chemistry and Electrostatics in Core Accretion (01:12:11) Role of resonance in planetary formation (01:18:19 What happens to ejected planets? (01:27:13) Discovering a planet orbiting a binary star system (01:37:10) How gas exerts pressure in an open system (01:41:43) Searching for water worlds (01:50:33) The inverse correlation between CO2 and Water (01:55:33) Closing thoughts and future directions #ExoplanetExploration, #AstronomyRevolution, #CosmicDiscoveries, #AlienWorlds, #AmauryTriaud, #TelescopeAdventure, #SpaceOdyssey, #AntarcticaObservatory, #StellarRevelations, #ExoplanetaryInsights, #GalacticResearch, #AstronomyFrontiers, #SolarSystemEvolution, #PlanetaryDiscoveries, #CosmicNarratives, #AstronomicalInnovation, #AstrophysicsTalk, #SpaceScience, #CelestialWonders, #ExoplanetHunter, #sciencepodcast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we journey to the cosmic frontier with financial markets innovator and author Walter Cruttenden in this deep dive into his surprising astronomical theory, as presented in his books "Lost Star of Myth and Time" and "The Great Year Adventures with Tommy the Time Traveling Turtle." Cruttenden suggests an alternative explanation for the precession of the equinoxes, suggesting that our sun is part of a binary star system. We consider details of the axial procession, question existing models, and uncover the potential link between civilization cycles and solar cycles. Come along as we traverse the realms of cosmic mysteries, technological progress, and the desire to understand the mysterious celestial dance that could reshape our understanding of our solar system's journey through the cosmos. Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Support the guest and DSPod when you pick up his books here: https://amzn.to/3HLw4D2 Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:40) Dive right into it (00:06:57) Axial procession, and issues with the existing model (00:18:15) Procession of the equinoxes only affects objects outside the solar system? (00:25:20) Is the sun part of a binary star system? (00:34:27) Barnard's Star, a potential solar partner? (00:45:25) Missing science on Barnard's Star (00:55:42) Linking civilization cycles to solar cycles (01:05:02) Broken link between technological progress and enlightenment (01:16:49) Pathways to a wiser civilization (01:28:11) Facing the desire to stop things from changing (01:36:41) Closing thoughts #CosmicRevelations, #BinaryStars, #AstronomyInsights, #TimeTravelingTurtles, #CelestialDance, #GalacticMysteries, #SolarSystemExploration, #AlternativeAstronomy, #WalterCruttenden, #PrecessionOfEquinoxes, #CosmicWisdom, #SolarCycles, #CivilizationConnections, #StellarDiscoveries, #TommyTheTurtle, #SpaceExploration, #AstrologicalInsights, #CosmicParadigmShift, #LostStarJourney, #EnlightenedCivilizations, #sciencepodcast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671