Feb 15, 2016
This week's episode comes at you from a bachelor party on Bourbon street in New Orleans. Grant and Heavey are joined by groom-to-be and friend Razi, who also happens to be a radar scientist specializing in scientific studies. Razi picks Brandon's brain on the field of nutritional studies: what's solid, what's biased, and why. While living it up in the Big Easy, the boys discuss the #1 problem with nutritional studies, the gold standard of studies, and the theory of "good vs bad" foods. After geeking out on science, the gentlemen recap their weekend of beverages on Bourbon street, their buddy system for weekend survival, and why Brandon sent a lost and lonely Grant pictures of himself eating pizza. [1:17] I'm a scientist [3:14] Everybody's got a study [4:36] Does ice cream cause shark attacks? [5:28] Correlation chaser [7:57] Skepticable [11:15] Bad foods? [13:10] Recall [15:44] Interpreted by journalists [18:08] The gold standard of studies [22:10] Financial influences [23:20] Beverage highlights [26:48] Buddy system