Rationally Speaking Podcast
- Science
- Society & Culture · Philosophy
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Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had...
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Recent episodes
- Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)
- Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)
- Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)
- Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein)
- The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)
- How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)
- "Price gouging" in emergencies
- How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)
- Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?
- Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)