Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk
Rationally Speaking Podcast
New York City Skeptics
4.6 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2011
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Massimo and Julia sit down in front of a live audience at the Jefferson Market Library in New York City for a conversation about science, non-science, and pseudo-science. Based on Massimo's book: "Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk" the topics they cover include whether the qualitative sciences are less reliable than quantitative ones, the re-running of the tape of life, and who is smarter: physicists, biologists, or psychologists? Also, why are evolutionary psychologist so fixated on sex?
The live Q&A follows in episode 29
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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. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the rationally speaking podcast, where we we explored borderlands between reason and nonsense. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm your host, Massimo Hilducci. |
| 0:42.2 | And here's my co-host, Judah Galev. |
| 0:44.5 | So, Julia, what are we talking about today? |
| 0:46.7 | Massimo, this is another very special episode. |
| 0:49.3 | This is our first live episode of rationally speaking. |
| 0:53.2 | We're here with an audience in the Jefferson Market |
| 0:56.1 | Library I don't hear them I don't hear them come on throng thank you that's better |
| 1:03.6 | now you listeners at home hearing this recorded after the fact will just, since you can't see the multitudes, |
| 1:12.6 | the adoring masses out there, you'll just have to take my word for that they are adoring and |
| 1:17.0 | they are multitudinous. |
| 1:18.9 | And Julia never lies, so. |
| 1:20.3 | No, never, never, yeah. |
| 1:21.5 | You'll just have to trust me, there are a lot of handmade signs out there with, we love you, |
| 1:25.2 | Julia and Massimo. |
| 1:26.6 | They're there. |
| 1:27.2 | Okay, Julia does love. We just found out that one. |
| 1:31.3 | So, right, so on this live episode of rationally speaking, we're going to be talking about |
| 1:36.9 | Massimo's recently published smash hit book, Nonsense on Stilps. I'm on a roll today. |
| 1:44.9 | We're only two minutes in. So it's, sorry, it's called Nonsense on Stilts. I'm on a roll today. Yeah, go ahead. |
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