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Title: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 01/06/2025 07:22:48
I've been on this forum for many years and have not seen one scientist in the nude. Am I looking in the wrong places?
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: alancalverd on 08/06/2025 20:06:37
I usually post naked but don't want to shame other male posters with my Adonis physique, so I turn the camera off and stick to intellectual humiliation.

Why do you think TNS is a radio show and not TV? If folk could see World Heavyweight Champion Chris interviewing Miss Universe about her third Nobel (physics, medicine, peace), nobody would pay any attention to the imploding hadron collider in the background. 
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: Bored chemist on 08/06/2025 23:40:37
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: evan_au on 09/06/2025 10:11:03
I do vaguely recall seeing a photo of the Naked Scientists team from many years ago, which had strategically placed lampstands and desks...   but I can't find it now - maybe just as well!
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: Eternal Student on 09/06/2025 13:44:45
Hi.

I do vaguely recall seeing a photo of the Naked Scientists team from many years ago, which had strategically placed lampstands and desks...   but I can't find it now - maybe just as well!


   They are still found with a Google Image search and appropriate keywords.    However, I would agree that they don't need to be found and it may not be useful to do so.

    As I understand it,  one of the major figures who set up and runs the NakedScientists is Chris.  He was a Biologist, specifically a medical consultant specialising in microbiology.       [Reference:   https://www.thenakedscientists.com/users/chris-smith ].
    He probably anticipated more use of the forum for Biology then there has actually been.   So let us look on the positive and sensible reasons for including the term "Naked" in the title.


Point #1:       ...This site is intended to promote science for all, from 6 year old kids to people who are retired....... None of this should prevent you from discussing delicate subjects (e.g. matters pertaining to human sexuality), but it should inform you as to the tone you should take....
[Taken from Acceptable Usage Policy.   https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8535.0

      So we can decide to take the opinion that there was / is still  good reason for illustrating that no human biology would be considered off-limits.

Point #2
    A dictionary definition of the term "Naked" includes the following:
  ......
 2...(especially of feelings or behaviour) expressed openly, undisguished.

[Taken from Google's built-in dictionary feature, as available in the UK]

     So we can decide to take the opinion that the phrase was used to imply that the site / the show would attempt to discuss things as they truly are.


Point #3
    There are already plenty of science forums and shows out there.   This forum site is distinguished by being one of the most tolerant and friendly you will ever find.   In particular it doesn't, or shouldn't, make any poster feel that their question was stupid or imply that the user would reasonably have been expected to know any specialist vocabulary.
     So we can decide to take the opinion that the choice of title is part of the informal and slightly light-hearted image they wished to present.

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      Despite all that I've said above.   I would still prefer it if the site changed it's name and adopted something a bit more refined and less easily ridiculed, but it is what it is.    For example, I am getting tired of explaining to visitors who use my computer that shortcut links I've left on my desktop to webpages of NakedScientists is not what they may think.

     I'm not staff, the decision is not mine to make and I suppose there is some value is maintaining the brand strength by continuing with the existing name.


Best Wishes.
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: neilep on 24/06/2025 23:31:31
I do vaguely recall seeing a photo of the Naked Scientists team from many years ago, which had strategically placed lampstands and desks...   but I can't find it now - maybe just as well!


I remember seeing that too, I'm still recovering.
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: alancalverd on 24/06/2025 23:42:33
If the emperor has no clothes, it is the duty of scientists to say so. Unlike philosophy, politics or religion, there is only one correct answer in science, so we all parade our ignorance and vulnerability in the search for truth.

But I raise my hat to Chris the Diplomat for a Radio 4 interview where he reviewed Herr Fuhrer Trumpf's understanding of COVID virology without actually using the words "dangerous idiot".
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: neilep on 25/06/2025 00:20:17
If the emperor has no clothes, it is the duty of scientists to say so. Unlike philosophy, politics or religion, there is only one correct answer in science, so we all parade our ignorance and vulnerability in the search for truth.

But I raise my hat to Chris the Diplomat for a Radio 4 interview where he reviewed Herr Fuhrer Trumpf's understanding of COVID virology without actually using the words "dangerous idiot".

All the people who followed his advice were cured of covid very quickly...... And every other sickness they had.... Permanently.
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: paul cotter on 25/06/2025 10:42:52
Oh dear, Eternal Student's visitors think it is a porn site!!
Title: Re: Are there any naked scientists?
Post by: neilep on 25/06/2025 13:32:03
" Stripping Down Science".............to make it accessible to all levels , from me (a sheep)..to PHd's and above....