Monkey Mind

Episode 001: From Bad Wi-Fi to Bad Science


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David is serving his Stay-Home Notice at a hotel with bad wi-fi. We talk a little bit about the state of Covid-19 in Singapore on 28 March (ahh, such innocent times), how science gets done, and what happens when science is done badly.

Recorded on 28 March 2020.

Everything you need to know about Stay-Home Notice

COVID-19: Stay-home notices for all travellers entering Singapore from ASEAN countries, Japan, UK, Switzerland

Wonder how dangerous a gathering can be? Here's how one event sparked hundreds of coronavirus cases across Asia

Tracking the Coronavirus: How Crowded Asian Cities Tackled an Epidemic

ICA | Singapore Permanent Resident Failed To Declare Recent Travel History To Indonesia

Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 study did not meet publishing society's "expected standard"

Bad Pharma

Bad Science (Goldacre book)

Compensatory Vowel Lengthening for Omitted Coda Consonants: A Phonetic Investigation of Children's Early Representations of Prosodic Words - Jae Yung Song, Katherine Demuth, 2008

'Avalanche' of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community

#pruittgate

A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us

MOH | Clinical Evidence Summaries

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