Episode
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Scientific Studies
Overview
John Oliver on Sticking to the Facts: Media outlets often report new findings from scientific studies, but how many are true?
Details
- Series
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2016-05-08
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Scientific Studies is Episode 11 in Season 3 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. It aired on 2016-05-08. The runtime is 30 min.
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