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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 Saloni-Datani.

Saloni is a PhD in psychiatric genetics at King's College London and the University of Hong Kong,

and I enjoy following her on Twitter, so I've been looking for a good excuse to do an episode with her. And this week, she provided me with one in the form

of a book review of the gendered brain by Gina Ripon. Actually, it wasn't just a review of that book,

which just came out. It was more of a discussion of the cluster of books that have come out

in the last decade or so on whether there are innate differences in male and female brains.

Like, for example, Cordelia finds delusions of gender, which rationally speaking actually

covered in an old episode like eight years ago now. It feels like a lifetime. And I found

Salone's discussion of this whole

debate really clarifying. So that's what we're going to talk about today. Saloni, welcome to

rationally speaking. Thank you for having me. So when I try to follow this debate on differences

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