It’s the trap of the weekly science/academic podcast. There isn’t enough science, they eventually run through their expertise, their friends’ expertise, but they gotta keep cranking podcasts out. Quality inevitably goes downhill. Most of them become part of the book-promotional podcast circuit. Just look at EconTalk.

> read the stoics, lift weights

I mean, these are generally true so kind of good they are part of hive mind.

If you're going to attempt to provide information for maximizing the a human life experience and want to do so based on empirical data that is pretty much where you will inevitably end up.

Yes. Personally I don't care about title, institution or anything. If the claims are not verifiable and reproducible, then I am inclined to take it with a grain of salt.

We can do it in computer science, I'm sure it can be done in other fields of research also.