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Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense. I'm your host, Julia Galef, and my guest today is Razib Khan. Razib is a geneticist

for Insaitome, and he has three blogs and two podcasts of his own. He blogs for Insightomeon and then also blogs at Gene Expression and Brown Pundits.

And then he hosts the Insight Home podcast and hosts the Brown Pundits podcast.

So he's a busy guy.

But this episode with Rizib was inspired by a conversation on Facebook recently in which I was complaining about

public intellectuals not changing their mind very often, you know, like I do.

And Rizib said, oh, interesting, this makes me want to write a list of things that I've changed

my mind about or things that I've been wrong about.

And he did.

He wrote a blog post with this fascinating list of like 30 things that he's changed his mind about in the last decade or so in his field of genetics, but also in other fields of science, politics, economics, religion.

And I was reading through it and I just kept wanting to ask him to elaborate more on why he changed his mind and what his new view is.

So that's what we're going to do in this episode.

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