{"id":1254,"date":"2026-10-20T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:45:04","slug":"episode-8-of-it-was-said-on-the-internet-scientists-proved-it-and-we-believed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/episode-8-of-it-was-said-on-the-internet-scientists-proved-it-and-we-believed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 8 of \u201cIt Was Said on the Internet\u201d: Scientists proved it, and we believed it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cScientists have proven\u201d \u2013 it sounds convincing. So why were we told one thing yesterday and something seemingly quite different today? In the new episode of <em>Internetis \u00f6eldi<\/em> (\u201cHeard It Online\u201d), we look at how scientific research turns into sensational headlines and advertising promises. What can be simplified without losing the meaning, how should we treat studies paid for by manufacturers, and what should we check before believing the next sensation? In the studio: science journalist Julia Tisler, host of the podcast <em>Vertushka Kruksa<\/em> (\u201cCrookes Radiometer\u201d), and brain researcher Dmitri Filimonov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<audio controls preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/heli.err.ee\/helid\/klassika\/74_ID114_495095.mp3\"><\/audio>\n<p>&#8220;It Was Said on the Internet&#8221;: Scientists proved it, and we believed it. Raadio 4 \/ ERR (in Russian). <a href=\"https:\/\/r4.err.ee\/1610162552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen on the Raadio 4 website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cScientists have proven\u201d \u2013 it sounds convincing. So why were we told one thing yesterday and something seemingly quite different today? In the new episode of Internetis \u00f6eldi (\u201cHeard It Online\u201d), we look at how scientific research turns into sensational headlines and advertising promises. What can be simplified without losing the meaning, how should we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/episode-8-of-it-was-said-on-the-internet-scientists-proved-it-and-we-believed-it\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":29,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-28"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}