Podcaster: Smart Enough To Chat P-Values, Cool Enough To Drop F-Bombs

A local Physiotherapist’s evidence based podcast has rapidly gained popularity, cultivating a loyal following of some 10,000 subscribers. Some say the podcaster’s success is attributable to his disarmingly smooth baritone voice, while others say it is his unique capacity to occupy the sensible centre on a range of contentious issues within the fields of Physiotherapy specifically, and musculoskeletal health, generally.

However, our reporter has it on good authority that the key to the podcaster’s success lies in his ability to be hipster level cool despite revelling in an undeniably nerdy subject matter. It seems P-values and regression coefficients can be trendy so long as one is sporting an intellectually superior top-knot & beard combination. It also helps to interject references to a love of fixed wheel bicycles and drinking craft beer with one’s jaded, contrarian arts student mates.

Our reporter spoke briefly with the podcaster about a recently aired discussion over the data used to support the safety of a widely utilised treatment for neck pain.

“Yeah what tosspot of a joke that research group is explained the podcaster. “I was like, no fucken way bro. You can’t make a claim about the safety of intervention with those fucken odds ratios! Get real man. What about the fucken numbers needed to treat? I mean seriously what the fuck I almost choked on my pilsner!”

The podcaster’s appeal appears to be far reaching, with one swooning follower telling our reporter, “ I just heart him so much. He is so smart. You can tell he is because he talks about statistics all the time… but he is sexy too because he swears a lot… he could come within two standard deviations of my mean anytime!!”