Ben Goldacre and Marcus Chown join Science Weekly regulars Alok Jha, James Randerson and Nell Boase in the pod.
Writer of the Guardian's Bad Science column, Ben Goldacre has a new book out by the same title. We discuss his thoughts on homeopathy, nutritionists, and the placebo effect. In the extended interview, he also discusses the 'MMR hoax' and magnetic cures.
David Colquhoun, a pharmacologist at University College London, chips in with his reaction after a degree course in homeopathic medicine is suspended at the University of Central Lancashire.
Cosmologist and and former radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology Marcus Chown pops in. He's written a book called Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You - but can it? We ask the question everyone wants answered. The LHC at Cern gets an inevitable mention, as do spinning electrons in New York and London. In the extended interview, we examine why quantum mechanics and eleven dimensions is so difficult to understand.
We also hear from Roberto Fao at Harvard University who has been looking at global happiness.
There is also talk of massages under the studio desk and listen out for the shoehorned reprise of our old Brian May jingle.
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