Simon Singh

Struggle on that.

And Simon Singh wrote a really great book on cryptography called The Codebook, which goes through the history of people sending each other secret messages.

Have you read it? I have read it.

I've read it a couple of times.

Well,

and then

you complained in that episode that Simon Singh kept editing em dashes out of your work.

Is that what I said? Okay,

So a big disclaimer here is that the Higgs boson has been theoretically predicted by physicists back in the 1960s.

So the Simpsons didn't predict the existence of the particle, but physicist Simon Singh pointed out that Homer's equation produced a remarkably close estimate

of its

mass.

I highly recommend that podcast to anyone that has an interest in this topic.

and also the book which is really good trick or treatment by edzard ernst and simon singh between the two of them they have three phds and an md in that conversation with dr ernst we talk about things that have proliferated on social media and in the public sphere that are counter to good science, right? Things like naturopathy, the proliferation of supplements.

We talk about placebo effect, and a lot of these modalities really are grounded in placebo effect.

And as you heard from Dr. Ernst, we touched on confirmation bias and how confirmation bias unfortunately drives people to anti-scientific ways of thinking and common incorrect retorts against science.

It's, it's slipping my mind now, where it's like sort of a, a casual read, sort of like just a compelling, uh, story, but talking about facts.

So I think Simon Singh does this for like Fermat's Last Theorem, um, and the, the code, code book, cryptography book, where it's like stories, but through the stories, he's explaining like the history and the operation of something-

Mm

... uh, in sort of like layman's terms or whatever.