Rationally Speaking #118 - Live From Baruch College With Dr. Steven Novella

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2014

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Taped in front of a live audience at Baruch College in New York, this episode of Rationally Speaking features special guest Steve Novella: neurologist, author of the blogs NeuroLogica and Science Based Medicine, and co-host of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe (SGU) podcast. Steve, Massimo, and Julia discuss the recent lawsuit facing the SGU, share their gripes about the ways that skeptics sometimes oversimplify the issues, and answer audience questions such as, "Is anything off-limits to skeptical activism?"

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0:00.0	Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education.
0:22.4	For more information, please visit us at NYCCEPTICs.org.
0:35.2	Welcome to the ration-speaking podcast.
0:38.1	I am your host, Massimo Piliuchi, and with me is my co-host, Julia Gilef.
0:42.9	Julia?
0:43.9	Well, Massimo, for those of you listening at home, we are here with a live studio audience in...
0:51.1	Yeah, live studio audience.
1:03.0	Thank you. in... Yeah, like to the audience. In the scenic Rose Nagelberg Theater at Brieck University in New York City. And we are delighted to have a guest here with us.
1:07.0	I expect many or most of you already know Steve Steve Novella. He is a clinical neurologist
1:14.8	and professor at Yale University School of Medicine. He runs the blog Science-Based Medicine
1:20.7	and Neurologica. And he's also the co-host of a little podcast that's a good second choice if you run out of
1:29.9	rationally speaking episodes to listen to it's called skeptics guide to the universe and we're
1:35.4	very happy to have you here with us today let's give Steve a hand thanks for you to be here
1:40.3	oh and I forgot to mention that Stephen Massimo are working on a book together.
1:46.0	It's in progress right now.
1:48.0	Working title is Scientific Skepticism.
1:50.0	So hopefully that'll be one of the themes that we touch on today.
1:53.0	Yeah, so Steve, what's been going on since you've been sued?
1:57.0	Wow, dove right in there, Massimo.
1:59.0	I was going to ease into it, but...
2:01.6	Well, I mean, fortunately, I don't have much to do with this in terms of day-to-day with the suit,
2:06.6	except to pay all the lawyers who do all the work, but that's the...
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