No Such Thing As Chekhov's Volcano
6/4/20261 hr
Greg Foot joins James, Anna and Andy to discuss vision, vacuums, volcanoes and Volvos.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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James Harkin· Host0:26
Hi, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, where we were joined by the absolutely brilliant science communicator Greg Foot. Now, I have known Greg for many, many years. He is really, I would say, one of the UK's premier fact-checkers. If you listen to BBC Radio 4, you might know him from the show Sliced Bread, where he looks at different products and claims and sees whether the science backs them up or not. Uh, but he has a brand new podcast. It's very exciting. It's called The Baby Fact Check, and it is something that I really wish I had about three years ago when I had a very young baby because Greg is a new father himself, congratulations to him and his partner, and they have realized that there is so much information out there, so many claims from companies, from the internet, and Greg has decided to use his many, many skills to work out which of these claims are true and which of them are false. It's such a great idea, and he has done it absolutely brilliantly. So if you want to listen to that, then go to