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47. The importance of science communication in sport

March 30, 2023 • Sam Robertson & Carlos Balsalobre-Fernandez • Season 5 • Episode 47

In the age of social media and around the clock content accessibility, we’ve never had more quality information at our fingertips. But the same can also be said for misinformation.

Extracting real signal from the noise has become one of contemporary science’s great challenges - not only in preventing negative impact through debunking potentially dangerous pseudoscience, but also in ensuring the right messages reach the right people at the right time, all in a format which they can comprehend and implement.

On this episode, host Sam Robertson sits down with researcher, educator, app developer and public speaker Carlos Balsalobre-Fernández to discuss all of this and more.

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