Episode Details

In this interview, Professor Peter Vickers and I talk about the scientific method, its true nature and its place in modern society. We talk about the philosophy of science, how scientific consensus works and how it can be made better.

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• 00:00:00 - Intro

• 00:01:10 - Meet Peter Vickers

• 00:03:35 - Philosophy of Science. What is it and how it's done

• 00:06:04 - End of Science

• 00:08:10 - Demarcation between good and bad science

• 00:16:33 - "I don't know" as a valid answer

• 00:12:37 - Facts VS Theories

• 00:31:03 - Scientific consensus

• 00:40:33 - Skepticism

• 01:00:38 - Can we make scientific consensus better

• 01:05:32 - Outro

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