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Risky Talk review: How to protect yourself from dodgy statistics

2 March 2020

Everything from genetic tests to immigration numbers is full of shaky statistics. David Spiegelhalter's new podcast helps separate the factual from the flaky

A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic

24 January 2018

In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story

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Risky Talk review: How to protect yourself from dodgy statistics

A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic

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