The Poetry of Science

Author: Sam Illingworth

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Episode 316: Version Drift
Episode 316
Sunday, 3 August, 2025

This episode explores new research, which has found that nearly half of 232 US health datasets were changed, mostly replacing 'gender' with 'sex', without logging or explanation. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Testament to the Agency of Man’ by Rickey Laurentiis here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth