Emma Frans

Emma Frans is a doctor in medical epidemiology and researcher at Karolinska Institutet. She works with science communication and has received both the Great Journalist Prize and the People’s Educator of the Year award. She has previously done research at the University of Oxford, and is a science journalist for Svenska Dagbladet. Emma is often seen and heard on TV and radio, perhaps more than ever in 2020.

Emma Frans has many years of experience in carrying out and reviewing scientific studies and teaches scientific methodology. She has written several books, including the book “Alla vävlar händerna” (2021), where she writes in a diary-like format about the corona pandemic and how she ended up at the center of an increasingly heated debate. The book is a combination of a personal story, public education and documentation from 2020, and just like in her lectures, Emma masterfully mixes humor with facts.

In 2017, Emma Frans published the book “Larmrapporten – to separate science from nonsense”, which in a pedagogical way teaches the reader how to navigate through the jungle of information that abounds around us daily. In the same year, she received the Great Journalist Award in the Voice of the Year category and was also named People’s Educator of the Year 2017. In the sequel “True, false or somewhere in between?” (2018) she gives an account of scientific answers to both big and small questions about everything from health to love; as usual entertaining yet educational and accurate.

Emma’s lecture “Facts and nonsense” is about how we can relate to all the information that we are overwhelmed by on a daily basis. In times of “alternative facts”, fake news and general resistance to facts, how are we supposed to know what is scientific and fact-based? Emma highlights current examples, and tells in a humorous way how we can learn scientific thinking, while exposing a lot of myths.

Sujets populaires: This is how we vaccinate ourselves against the infodemic | Fact or nonsense – we are influenced to believe what is not true | About science communication