The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

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Ask Me Anything #6

Welcome to another episode of The Words Matters Podcast. Many of you may be familiar with a recent paper I was proud to co-author titled: Avoiding nocebo and other undesirable effects in chiropractic, osteopathy and physiotherapy: An invitation to reflect – Journal of MSK Science ... Show more

. 40min 13sec

The Outsiders - Clinicians divorced from their profession with Eliud Sierra

Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.Apologies for the slight delay in the episode, work and life events continue to get in the way of my passion for producing these conversations.So it’s time for another Outsider episode (see prior Outsider episodes here, here, ... Show more

. 59min 57sec

Sociology for practice - the 'ology' you’ve been looking for with Dr Rebecca Olson

Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.I hope you’ve enjoyed the last couple of episodes exploring pseudoscientific claims and how to think about, and respond to them (here and here). And to give us all a break from the frustration, today I’m speaking with Dr Rebe ... Show more

. 57min 59sec

Pretending to be true - getting to the heart of pseudoscience with Dr Carlo Martini

Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.It seems like the last episode with Dave Newell and Jack Chew was necessary; the feedback by and large was supportive, but clearly you cannot please everyone and for some people there is no argument, reason or evidence (let a ... Show more

. 1h 19min

Truth and plausibility - How should we engage with nonsensical claims made by colleagues? With Jack Chew and Prof. Dave Newell

Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.So it’s been a pretty action packed few weeks on social media; for those of you that have not been following there was a storm in a pericardial tea cup - for my thoughts on the saga visit my Instagram bio where there's an Ins ... Show more

. 1h 21min