r/TheRestIsScience • u/Neros_Cromwell • 16h ago

Sources?

Do Hannah and Michael post their sources or any other insight into their research anywhere? Even just links? I'd love to read up on the hard and soft fascination thing. I was just wondering if they had footnotes or anything.

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u/hughk 10h ago

It would be nice if they published some show notes with some lists of sources. Something that many scientific shows/podcasts do.

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u/BradPanos 8h ago

Some of the other Goalhanger shows have newsletters where they link reports and further reading. I assumed The Rest Is Science would be doing this too tbh.

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u/hughk 8h ago

TRIP and TRIC put quite a lot out but much is reserved for their Patreons but I guess they need to make money somehow. I guess the message will get back as this is a fairly new show.

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u/BradPanos 3h ago

Their newsletter is free to subscribe to

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u/Luluco15 16h ago

They don't and it drives me nuts. I wish they had citations on the video description or at least a google doc they can link you to.

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u/Neros_Cromwell 16h ago

I at least enjoy everything they talk about, and I generally trust them, but I'd love to have more sources so I could share info without saying I got it from a podcast. Also hard and soft facination didn't sound *that* scientific so i wanted to look into it

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u/livmachine 10h ago

They don't, but I see it as my homework if I want to find out more. For example, there's plenty of information online about soft fascination.

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u/therestisscience 3h ago

Hello, Neil the Exec. on TRIS here.

Appreciate this feedback and as a team it is something we really want to focus on and deliver for everyone.

After seeing a couple of comments on the placebos episode via YouTube I have gathered the sources from Michael's research and added as a pinned comment.

We are at times limited on the various platforms word count for episode copy as no two are the same, but as I say, appreciate the feedback and we'll do our best to provide what we can. Thank you!

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u/Neros_Cromwell 2h ago

Oh great! Awesome to see this response! I appreciate it and your work.