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# FFS Show 37: How do you know someone is an expert?
- URL: https://www.theferret.scot/ffs-show-37-how-do-you-know-someone-is-an-expert/
- Published: 2022-09-01T09:20:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-17T23:48:37.000Z
- Author: Ferret Journalists
- Tags: Fact Checks, #davesutton2gmail-com, Podcast, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-15 12:08, #older_unmetered

![expert](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2d/e2/2de2844d-80a7-4c7b-8025-6f1f39724aa6/content/images/2025/10/ffs_banner_red1__3_-99.png)

This week Karin Goodwin, co-editor of The Ferret, joins Ali to talk misinformation, sewage and how you can tell if you’re speaking to an expert.

Ali spoke to [Professor Thora Tenbrink](https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/thora-tenbrink%2874d21e05-8490-45d3-ab59-b96e44c9d926%29.html?ref=theferret.scot), a real expert on linguistics and communication, who explained how to spot the subtle signs that someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about, no matter how confidently they say it.

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[Listen to episode 37 of The FFS Show podcast here.](https://player.captivate.fm/episode/5e77b039-0bc6-435a-acb1-070d56509d5d?ref=theferret.scot)

Show notes:

- Professor Tenbrink’s article in The Conversation is [here](https://theconversation.com/five-ways-to-tell-if-someone-is-an-expert-or-just-confident-from-an-actual-expert-188244?ref=theferret.scot).
- And more of [her academic research](https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/thora-tenbrink%2874d21e05-8490-45d3-ab59-b96e44c9d926%29/researchoutputs.html?ref=theferret.scot#0) is here.
- You can find out more about our work on [sewage overflows here.](https://www.theferret.scot/author/editor/)

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