What I listened to this afternoon...
Aug. 27th, 2008 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningI listened to two radio programmes on the BBC iPlayer this afternoon.
The first was the second part of Ben Goldacre’s investigation into the placebo effect. This series has been really fascinating – in this programme, Goldacre considers the ethics of placebos and their place in contemporary and alternative medicine. You can hear the programme here until next Monday evening (1 September 2008).
By chance – because the BBC leaves a little bit of the continuity announcer after the main programme when it transfer them to iPlayer – I was prompted to listen to the next programme on Radio 4 last Monday, by about the Stanford prison experiment. This is quite a famous – and controversial – psychology experiment in which students were given roles as “prisoners” and “guards” in a mock prison. This investigation talks to the many of the people involved in the experiment and the effect it had. You can hear the programme here until next Monday evening (1 September 2008).
The first was the second part of Ben Goldacre’s investigation into the placebo effect. This series has been really fascinating – in this programme, Goldacre considers the ethics of placebos and their place in contemporary and alternative medicine. You can hear the programme here until next Monday evening (1 September 2008).
By chance – because the BBC leaves a little bit of the continuity announcer after the main programme when it transfer them to iPlayer – I was prompted to listen to the next programme on Radio 4 last Monday, by about the Stanford prison experiment. This is quite a famous – and controversial – psychology experiment in which students were given roles as “prisoners” and “guards” in a mock prison. This investigation talks to the many of the people involved in the experiment and the effect it had. You can hear the programme here until next Monday evening (1 September 2008).