Uncharted with Hannah Fry

I love Hannah Fry and am very much looking forward to more of this podcast. That said, I go in aware that she is subject to a few logical fallacies, such as the false dichotomy. In the introductory episode she mentions that the original observation that, after wars, we tend to see a spike in male birth, was chalked up to God helping restore the ideal ratio of males to females. She then dismisses this notion because, well, there’s a scientific explanation. The idea that a god might be the creator of science never occurs to her. God=not science Science=not god In fact, there are a fairly sizable number of religious people who believe in science. My uncle, David A Johnson, professor of Genetics, Cellular & Molecular Biology, and Experimental Genetics at Concordia College, William Jewel College, Emory University, Seinan Gakuin University, and Samford University, where he also held the Chair of the Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences before retiring, was also an ordained minister and spent 25 years in Japan (while teaching evolutionary biology at Seinan Gakuin) as a Christian missionary. The superfluous opinion bits about religion are unnecessary. Just report the science and leave off speculation on topics you don’t know. Perhaps a god built this feature into the human reproductive system.

Some of the conclusions made are week and assumes all variables have been accounted for. In at least one case the data the episode is based on had been proven faulty years before the recording of the podcast. It was well edited, well produced, and the presenter was pleasant to listen to.

Obviously someone else wrote this, and it is pretty bad. Rutherford and Frye is much more interesting and useful.

I absolutely adore Hannah Frye & her work! Sure some of the points get repeated rather often, but she’s a teacher so I understand why she does it. When is the next session coming out??!!