SmartMonesZone The Calibrate Coffee Edition

What happens when On the Mones, Why Smart Women and The Skeptic Zone all end up around the same café table?You get Smart Moans Zone.Recorded at Calibrate Coffee, we’re joined by our very special guest Dr Angie from Atlanta, USA, for a conversation that somehow manages to cover cutting-edge medicine, pseudoscience, social etiquette and Australia’s noisiest birds.In this episode we chat about:The recent Four Corners investigation into peptides, including Dr Norman Swan’s reporting on the rapid rise of peptide clinics, the evidence, the hype and the challenges of regulation.Ear candling—why it continues to be popular despite the evidence (or lack of it).One of life’s great social dilemmas: you’ve just met a group of new people, you’ve been enthusiastically eating bruschetta, and only later discover an enormous basil leaf has been decorating your front tooth the entire time. Would you want someone to tell you? And if you’re the observer… do you say something?And, because we’re recording outdoors in Sydney, we also wage a losing battle against the soundtrack provided by some particularly enthusiastic sulphur-crested cockatoos.It’s science, scepticism, friendship, coffee and complete conversational chaos, in exactly the proportions you’d expect.Grab a coffee, pull up a chair, and join us.