#1273 Helen Pearson - Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Helen Pearson. She's a science journalist, author, and chief magazine editor for the journal Nature, where she oversees the journalism and opinion content. And today we're going to talk about her latest book, Beyond Belief, How Evidence Shows What Really Works. So Helen, welcome to the show.

It's a big pleasure to have you one. Thank you so much for asking me to be on the show. I'm happy to be here. Okay, so as the title or uh the subtitle of your book implies, we're going to talk a lot about evidence today and why having evidence is so important. But what is actually the premise of your book?

I mean, how would you characterize it? I would say it says that in a world full of misinformation and conflicting claims, then evidence can from science can show us what's nonsense and what's not, I guess. But the the the the the easiest way to actually describe it is to probably tell you how I came to write the book. Can I can I just do that? Okay.

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