Podcasts similar to Stuff You Should Know but actually researched?

I’m more worried that people are taking a podcast — any podcast — as a definitive or exclusive source of fact. I really enjoy SYSK for the entertainment value, but I also accept it for what it is: two guys reading a script that someone prepared from reading Wikipedia and a few other online sources. They’re absolutely not experts and their sources can be wrong.

To me, a podcast is no different than any source of information on the internet: the facts need to be scrutinised, considered for research bias, etc. It’s like a mini thesis that hasn’t been reviewed or gone through a defence.

I’ve heard many, many prominent podcasters get shit wrong. There are those who occasionally misrepresent opinion as fact (Neil de Grasse Tyson, I’m looking at you). But overall they’re great for a beginners guide on certain topics and should listened to with a caveat that this could be incomplete or incorrect and do your own fact checking first. Just how I treat any post on reddit!

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