Sonya Pemberton's guest appearances

Sonya Pemberton

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

180 Nutrition -The Health Sessions.

Osher Günsberg: Better Than Yesterday 

Andrew Taylor

Paul de Gelder

Josh Zepps

Sarah Wilson

Brad McKay

Jason Wachob

Maria Konnikova

Max Lugavere

Paul Saladino

Brian Mackenzie

Robert Sapolsky

Wil Anderson

Ryan North

Ben Greenfield

Dave Asprey

OwlTail

Sonya Pemberton is an Emmy-winning science documentary maker.She’s recently made JABBED - Love, Fear and Vaccines, URANIUM - Twisting the Dragon's Tail, and #VITAMANIA all about how many, if any, vitamins we need daily. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonya Pemberton is an Emmy-winning science documentary maker.She’s recently made JABBED - Love, Fear and Vaccines, URANIUM - Twisting the Dragon's Tail, and #VITAMANIA all about how many, if any, vitamins we need daily. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Better Make it Quick: Sonya Pemberton

Sonya Pemberton is an Emmy-winning science documentary maker.She’s recently made JABBED - love, fear and vaccines; URANIUM - Twisting the Dragon's Tail, and now, #VITAMANIA all about how many if any vitamins we need daily. We got in touch when a few months ago I put a photo of myself getting some vaccination shots up on instagram.We have a baby on the way. I don’t want that baby to die of a disease that belongs in a Dickens novel. Vaccines are proven effective by the scientific process, so therefore I use vaccines. It’s a pretty simple thing to say. But some people lost their fuckin’ minds at me. There’s a lot of very convincing, very flawed information out in the world about vaccines. To the point that people were accusing me of wanting to kill my child, and accusing me of being on the take from pharmaceutical companies. I explored a bit more as to why people might believe such things. Things that clearly aren’t true. And I started to discover that if I took the attitude of “I’m right and you’re stupid” that wouldn’t change anything. If I acknowledged the fear and the incredible wanting to cause no harm to their child - and that being the root of the desire to explore if vaccines were safe - well that’s a different story. If you google something for long enough eventually you’ll get an answer that confirms your opinion. That’s how algorithms work. You get more of what you click on. Then you eventually vanish down into a filter-bubble of confirmation bias. Where you never see anything other than the kind of things you click on. If you spend long enough on FB and You Tube, you’ll quickly come across a conspiracy theory - no matter what it is you’re looking for. Things start to get scary. Eventually, wanting to feel less alone, or looking for others in a time of fear people reach out to others who are also concerned - primarily in Facebook groups. There they find a welcome ear, and support and more confirmation that they’re making the right decision. That’s when it gets kind of cult-like for me. There’s an appeal to purity that kicks in, and threat of exclusion if you ever leave the group or say anything against that group. I see it in the vegan community all the time. So people start to identify as a part of that group or movement, even if it’s a movement based on collective delusion that’s been disproven time and again. Once that identity is set in - any challenge to the base belief of that identity is seen as heresy and ends up pushing people deeper into that delusion. And that’s where the incredible reactionary positions and violent language happens. It’s really confronting. It would be super scary to be in it because you’d have a belief that the world is out to get you and me and your kids. I could tell you it doesn’t, but they told you I’d say that didn’t they?As we learned from Jo Thornely, that’s straight up cult-talk 101. So. In the middle of all of this noise and anger when I was just trying to talk about something that’s real, I was contacted by our mutual friend Caroline Pegram who looks after Dr Karl. She told me I should have Sonya on the podcast - because of the extraordinary film she made - Jabbed, a film all about vaccines and how they work and the history of vaccines which goes back hundreds and hundreds of years. We managed to make that conversation happen. It was over Skype, so thanks for understanding the audio... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonya Pemberton is an Emmy-winning science documentary maker.She’s recently made JABBED - love, fear and vaccines; URANIUM - Twisting the Dragon's Tail, and now, #VITAMANIA all about how many if any vitamins we need daily. We got in touch when a few months ago I put a photo of myself getting some vaccination shots up on instagram.We have a baby on the way. I don’t want that baby to die of a disease that belongs in a Dickens novel. Vaccines are proven effective by the scientific process, so therefore I use vaccines. It’s a pretty simple thing to say. But some people lost their fuckin’ minds at me. There’s a lot of very convincing, very flawed information out in the world about vaccines. To the point that people were accusing me of wanting to kill my child, and accusing me of being on the take from pharmaceutical companies. I explored a bit more as to why people might believe such things. Things that clearly aren’t true. And I started to discover that if I took the attitude of “I’m right and you’re stupid” that wouldn’t change anything. If I acknowledged the fear and the incredible wanting to cause no harm to their child - and that being the root of the desire to explore if vaccines were safe - well that’s a different story. If you google something for long enough eventually you’ll get an answer that confirms your opinion. That’s how algorithms work. You get more of what you click on. Then you eventually vanish down into a filter-bubble of confirmation bias. Where you never see anything other than the kind of things you click on. If you spend long enough on FB and You Tube, you’ll quickly come across a conspiracy theory - no matter what it is you’re looking for. Things start to get scary. Eventually, wanting to feel less alone, or looking for others in a time of fear people reach out to others who are also concerned - primarily in Facebook groups. There they find a welcome ear, and support and more confirmation that they’re making the right decision. That’s when it gets kind of cult-like for me. There’s an appeal to purity that kicks in, and threat of exclusion if you ever leave the group or say anything against that group. I see it in the vegan community all the time. So people start to identify as a part of that group or movement, even if it’s a movement based on collective delusion that’s been disproven time and again. Once that identity is set in - any challenge to the base belief of that identity is seen as heresy and ends up pushing people deeper into that delusion. And that’s where the incredible reactionary positions and violent language happens. It’s really confronting. It would be super scary to be in it because you’d have a belief that the world is out to get you and me and your kids. I could tell you it doesn’t, but they told you I’d say that didn’t they?As we learned from Jo Thornely, that’s straight up cult-talk 101. So. In the middle of all of this noise and anger when I was just trying to talk about something that’s real, I was contacted by our mutual friend Caroline Pegram who looks after Dr Karl. She told me I should have Sonya on the podcast - because of the extraordinary film she made - Jabbed, a film all about vaccines and how they work and the history of vaccines which goes back hundreds and hundreds of years. We managed to make that conversation happen. It was over Skype, so thanks for understanding the audio... Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

288: Sonya Pemberton

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara chats with award-winning documentarian and creative director of Genepool Productions, Sonya Pemberton. They talk about her newest film, Vitamania, as well as other projects she’s produced and aired across the globe.  They also discuss the challenges bringing Australian-made films to an American audience in the current science media landscape. Follow Sonya: @pembertonfilms.

Episode 243 - Sonya Pemberton

This week we welcome Sonya Pemberton to the show. She is one of Australia’s leading factual television producers specialising in science. She has written, directed and produced over 50 hours of broadcast documentary and executive produced many award-winning factual series and one-off programs. Sonya was Head of Specialist Factual at ABC Television from 2004-2007, where she commissioned 300+ hours of factual television. Her understanding of audiences’ desire for smart, accessible TV saw ratings rise across the genres. Sonya’s science programs have won more than 30 major international awards and she has been three times honoured with the prestigious Eureka Prize for Science Journalism (2003, 2004, 2008). In 2011 Immortal won the Australian Health Journalist of the Year, Best Science at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and, in 2012, US News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Science Programming. In 2011 Sonya joined forces with Australia’s largest Independent production company Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder (CJZ) to create Genepool Productions – Australia’s first television production company focusing on quality science programming. Genepool’s first feature documentary, Jabbed – love fear and vaccines, was broadcast on SBS TV, May 26 2013.  Questions asked in the episode   - How can we tell if our supplements are of a good quality? - Were there any alarming discoveries regarding vitamins while making the film? - Many vitamins proclaim to be 100% natural, is this just a marketing ploy?   https://shop.180nutrition.com.au00:44 This week. I'm excited to welcome Sonia Pemberton. Sonia is one of Australia's leading documentary producers and she specializes in making compelling high quality science films. Her films have been screened in dozens of international festivals and won more than 70 major awards, including an Emmy for outstanding science programming. In this episode we discuss Sonya's latest film, Vitamania that digs deep into the vitamin industry. We chat about the safety of these products, the current regulations, and ask the question if we actually need them at all. The movie completely reshaped my opinion on the humble vitamin pill and I thoroughly recommend watching it. I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did. Let's get over to Sonya. Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition and I am delighted to welcome Sonya Pemberton to the show. Good morning, Sonya. How are you? Sonya 01:40 Hello Stu. I'm very well. Thank you. Stu 01:42 Good stuff. Well, thank you first up for sharing some of your time with us today. And before we get into the conversation, I would love it if you could just tell our listeners a little bit about who you are, what you do, and perhaps why you do it as well. Sonya 01:56  For full interview and transcript: http://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/sonya-pemberton-interview/ 

This week we welcome Sonya Pemberton to the show. She is one of Australia’s leading factual television producers specialising in science. She has written, directed and produced over 50 hours of broadcast documentary and executive produced many award-winning factual series and one-off programs. Sonya was Head of Specialist Factual at ABC Television from 2004-2007, where she commissioned 300+ hours of factual television. Her understanding of audiences’ desire for smart, accessible TV saw ratings rise across the genres. Sonya’s science programs have won more than 30 major international awards and she has been three times honoured with the prestigious Eureka Prize for Science Journalism (2003, 2004, 2008). In 2011 Immortal won the Australian Health Journalist of the Year, Best Science at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and, in 2012, US News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Science Programming. In 2011 Sonya joined forces with Australia’s largest Independent production company Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder (CJZ) to create Genepool Productions – Australia’s first television production company focusing on quality science programming. Genepool’s first feature documentary, Jabbed – love fear and vaccines, was broadcast on SBS TV, May 26 2013. Questions asked in the episode   - How can we tell if our supplements are of a good quality? - Were there any alarming discoveries regarding vitamins while making the film? - Many vitamins proclaim to be 100% natural, is this just a marketing ploy?   <a href="https://shop.180nutrition.com.au" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shop.180nutrition.com.au</a>00:44 This week. I'm excited to welcome Sonia Pemberton. Sonia is one of Australia's leading documentary producers and she specializes in making compelling high quality science films. Her films have been screened in dozens of international festivals and won more than 70 major awards, including an Emmy for outstanding science programming. In this episode we discuss Sonya's latest film, Vitamania that digs deep into the vitamin industry. We chat about the safety of these products, the current regulations, and ask the question if we actually need them at all. The movie completely reshaped my opinion on the humble vitamin pill and I thoroughly recommend watching it. I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did. Let's get over to Sonya. Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition and I am delighted to welcome Sonya Pemberton to the show. Good morning, Sonya. How are you? Sonya 01:40 Hello Stu. I'm very well. Thank you. Stu 01:42 Good stuff. Well, thank you first up for sharing some of your time with us today. And before we get into the conversation, I would love it if you could just tell our listeners a little bit about who you are, what you do, and perhaps why you do it as well. Sonya 01:56  For full interview and transcript: <a href="http://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/sonya-pemberton-interview/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/sonya-pemberton-interview/</a>