Slate Money - Good Science/Crap Science
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Cathy O’Neil is back! She joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to explain why COVID-19 models are confusing, talk about the media world’s big reckoning with its own racism, and discuss the Ford Foundation’s new bonds plan.
In the Slate Plus segment: A tech startup that’s trying to detect women’s orgasm.
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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the good science, crap science episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:20.5 | And boy did we have a bunch of different things that we wanted to talk about this week. |
| 0:25.3 | I am Felix Semen of Axios. |
| 0:27.9 | I am here with Anna Shemansky of Breaking Views. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello. |
| 0:36.2 | And all three of us are mostly just going to take a backseat in this episode to the one |
| 0:40.8 | and only, Kathy O'Neill, you are back. |
| 0:44.6 | Yay. |
| 0:45.9 | Welcome back. |
| 0:47.2 | It has been a long time since you were last on Slate Money, and we love you very much. |
| 0:50.9 | And oh, my God, do we have a lot of stuff to talk to you about? We are going to |
| 0:55.3 | ask you the questions which we have been saving up for months about coronavirus and modeling it. |
| 1:01.4 | And how much should we thank or blame all of the epidemiologists who are trying to model this disease? |
| 1:08.7 | We are going to talk about the reckoning that is happening |
| 1:13.0 | with all the people losing their jobs in racist institutions. We are going to talk about the Ford |
| 1:19.0 | Foundation and whether they should be borrowing money right now. And if you are a Slate Plus member, |
| 1:26.0 | which you should be, you will have the glory of listening to Kathy O'Neill go off on the subject of VC-funded female orgasms and smart but plugs. |
| 1:39.3 | It's a great Slate Plus. |
| 1:42.5 | All of that coming up on sleep money. |
| 1:48.6 | So let's start, Kathy, because you are the queen of all things models. |
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