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Methods is about how we know what we know.
Each week, Brooke Borel, author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, interviews someone who examines facts for a living, including journalists, scientists, historians, judges, translators, and more.
Picking one of the guest’s projects—an investigative article, a book, a scientific discovery—we’ll dig into how they did it. What was their process? How did they investigate the evidence? What stories, pitfalls, and dead ends didn’t make it into the published work? How sure are they? And what level of uncertainty should we all be comfortable with when it comes to calling something a fact?
Each week, Brooke Borel, author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, interviews someone who examines facts for a living, including journalists, scientists, historians, judges, translators, and more.
Picking one of the guest’s projects—an investigative article, a book, a scientific discovery—we’ll dig into how they did it. What was their process? How did they investigate the evidence? What stories, pitfalls, and dead ends didn’t make it into the published work? How sure are they? And what level of uncertainty should we all be comfortable with when it comes to calling something a fact?
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Data scientist and "Weapons of Math Destruction" author Cathy O’Neil on the dark side of big data.
BuzzFeed data reporter Lam Thuy Vo on the illuminating and obscuring nature of social media data.
New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox on the art and science of writing what she calls “flash biographies.”
Zach and Kelly Weinersmith on how to predict our future technologies and their new book "Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything"
Journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer on the research linking guns and crime.
Julie Rehmeyer is a math and science journalist and author of “Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand.”
Journalist Maryn McKenna on uncovering a story about the secretive meat industry.
Statistician Nate Silver on baseball and the 2016 election, recorded live at CAVEAT.
Climate scientist Kate Marvel on whether climate change is to blame for Harvey, Irma, and Jose.
Vice News Tonight reporter Arielle Duhaime-Ross on an unprecedented legal case over climate change.
Marine mammal expert Diana Reiss explains how scientists get in the heads of other species.
Author Jon Ronson on how journalists should cover Alex Jones.
Methods is a new podcast about how we know what we know, and why the way we get there matters. Coming soon to a podcast app near you!
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