More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Election claims and erection claims
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
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Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.
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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign.
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Shakespeare鈥檚 maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations.
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants.
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Data for India
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?
What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures
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Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence
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Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
The connection between being alone and an early death
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
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What鈥檚 happening to Arctic ice?
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people鈥檚 number one fear.
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
How much does a man鈥檚 height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on Covid recovery?
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The digital 鈥榬obots鈥� unlocking medical data
Ben Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data
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Debt, students, shark and chips
What is the government鈥檚 rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?
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The global gender split in young people鈥檚 politics
Tim Harford investigates the growing political divergence between young men and women.
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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Council tax comparisons, migration calculations and the carbon footprint of home-grown veg
