Episode 74: Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2015

⏱️ 114 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

David and Tamler return after an end of summer hiatus to finally talk
about the ethics of deception….eventually. But first they break down
a recent article in the journal Science documenting an attempt to replicate
100 recent psychology experiments. What does it mean that just
over 1/3 of the studies were successfully replicated? Is social
psychology in crisis or is this just how science works? Will David
somehow try to pin the blame on philosophers?

Plus--a brief and almost certainly regrettable foray into the Ashley
Madison hack, the neuroscience of lying to your kids about Santa, and we announce
a new way to contact us to help celebrate our 75th anniversary.

Links

Authors, Shitload of (2015) Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science, Science, 39.
The Bayesian Reproducibility Project post by Alexander Etz [alexanderetz.com]
Harris, S. (2013). Lying. Four Elephants Press. Buy on Amazon
Bok, S. (2011) Lying: Moral choice in public and private life. Vintage, 2011. Buy on Amazon
Santa on the Brain by Kelly Lambert [nytimes.com]
James Randi (aka "The Amazing Randi") [wikipedia.org]
An Honest Liar [anhonestliar.com] (Available on Netflix in the U.S.)
The Honest Truth about Dishonesty [amazon.com affiliate link]
(Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies [thedishonestyproject.com]
Exit Through the Gift Shop [wikipedia.org]
F for Fake [imdb.com]

Support Very Bad Wizards

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro, having
0:06.6	an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.8	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, and knowing
0:14.4	my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.4	Okay, well, sometimes science is more art than science, Morty.
0:21.4	A lot of people don't get that.
0:23.1	But we're in on his philosophy.
0:30.1	We do our attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:35.1	Who are you?
0:39.1	Who are you?
0:40.1	I'm very bad man.
0:41.1	I'm a very good man.
0:42.1	Good man.
0:43.1	I'm a very good man.
0:50.1	Good man.
0:51.1	They think he's lost, and with no more brains than you have.
0:53.1	We do our attention.
0:54.1	Come on man.
0:59.1	Anybody can have a brain.
1:03.1	You're a very bad man.
1:05.1	I'm a very good man.
1:07.1	Just a very bad wizard.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.