More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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DOGE, apples and irregular migrants
Fact-checking government efficiency claims in the US.
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Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?
Trump wants access to Ukraine鈥檚 Rare Earth deposits.
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Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths
The numbers behind Ukraine鈥檚 rare earth worth and the UK鈥檚 defence spending ambitions.
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Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?
Donald Trump says the US has given Ukraine more aid than Europe - what does the data say?
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Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?
Is this 鈥榯he biggest fraud in the whole of history'?
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Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?
Are Hamas bombing Israel with condoms sent by the US?
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Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?
How baby mortality statistics gave a misleading impression about racism in healthcare
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Are quantum computers already super-powerful?
We investigate what a big claim about the speed of a quantum chip really means.
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Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?
We investigate if the US president鈥檚 crypto is really worth tens of billions of dollars.
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Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?
We investigate if people with red hair have a hidden pain-blocking superpower
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Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?
We investigate a refugee claim that is often being taken out of context.
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Numbers of the year: Part two
Our listeners' favourite numbers of 2024
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Numbers of the year 2024
We ask experts about their favourite stats from 2024.
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Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
Fact checking the fascist regime.
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How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?
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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
We investigate if 10 percent of the Greek population died during the second world war
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Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.
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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
We investigate a huge estimate for how much governments pay to support coal, gas and oil
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
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What can economics learn from sport?
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
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Are older drivers more dangerous?
Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.
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Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
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Should the government target persnuffle?
Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.
