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Rationally Speaking Podcast

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 gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.
263 episodes

Episodes

Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)

00:52:1312/23/2021

Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)

01:08:5412/10/2021

Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)

01:07:5711/30/2021

Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein)

01:18:5711/5/2021

The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)

01:04:1210/15/2021

How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)

01:17:559/14/2021

"Price gouging" in emergencies

00:52:088/19/2021

How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)

01:02:456/10/2021

Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?

01:01:514/9/2021

Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)

01:03:173/19/2021