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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.

info_outline Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye) 12/23/2021
info_outline Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord) 12/10/2021
info_outline Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt) 11/30/2021
info_outline Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein) 11/05/2021
info_outline The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden) 10/15/2021
info_outline How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper) 09/14/2021
info_outline "Price gouging" in emergencies 08/19/2021
info_outline How to be a data detective (Tim Harford) 06/10/2021
info_outline Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited? 04/09/2021
info_outline Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude) 03/19/2021
info_outline Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin) 03/04/2021
info_outline Understanding moral disagreements (Jonathan Haidt) 02/18/2021
info_outline The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias) 02/03/2021
info_outline What’s wrong with tech companies banning people? (Julian Sanchez) 01/20/2021
info_outline The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes) 01/05/2021
info_outline Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor) 12/22/2020
info_outline The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel) 12/08/2020
info_outline Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton) 11/24/2020
info_outline Are Boomers to blame for Millennials' struggles? 11/09/2020
info_outline Rationally Speaking #244 - Stephanie Lepp and Buster Benson on "Seeing other perspectives, with compassion" 11/30/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #243 - Bryan Caplan on "The Case for Open Borders" 11/12/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #242 - Keith Frankish on "Why consciousness is an illusion" 10/29/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #241 - Thibault Le Texier on "Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment" 10/15/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #240 - David Manheim on "Goodhart's Law and why metrics fail" 09/17/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different" 09/03/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #238 - Razib Khan on "Stuff I've Been Wrong About" 08/20/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #237 - Andy Przybylski on "Is screen time bad for you?" 08/06/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #236 - Alex Tabarrok on "Why are the Prices So D*mn High?" 07/23/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #235 - Tage Rai on "Why people think their violence is morally justified" 06/25/2019
info_outline Rationally Speaking #234 - Dylan Matthews on "Global poverty has fallen, but what should we conclude from that?" 05/28/2019
 
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