Rationally Speaking #29 - Q&A Live!

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2011

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In a continuation of episode 28, Massimo and Julia sit down for a Q&A session in front of a live audience at the Jefferson Market Library in New York City. The audience's questions include whether economics and evolutionary psychology are really science, what's the deal with the placebo effect, the influence of corporate money on scientific research, and how can some scientists publish legitimate research and still believe in pseudo-science. Also, vegetarianism: is it about science, ethics, or both?

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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.
0:22.6	For more information, please visit us at NYCCEPTICs.org.
0:30.4	Hello and welcome to the rationally speaking podcast, where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
0:40.6	I'm your host, Massimo Villucci, and here's my co-host, Julia Galev.
0:44.6	Julia, what are we talking about today?
0:46.7	Massimo, we are back again with our live audience at the Jefferson Market Library in the heart of Greenwich Village.
0:53.8	Welcome back, guys.
0:55.7	Oh, there. Thank you. Thank you. So we're back for our second live episode, and this time we're
1:05.6	going to do a full 45-minute episode of just Q&A. Very smart Q&A.
1:11.5	Very, very smart.
1:12.5	Especially the Q.
1:13.7	I was thinking especially the A.
1:15.4	Oh, all that.
1:16.1	Well, that's the split.
1:17.7	It's in a split, yes.
1:18.8	So usually on the podcast, we take questions from, we solicit questions from the commenters,
1:27.3	from the readers of the rationally speaking
1:28.4	blog and invite listeners to send us their questions, and then we read them aloud and answer
1:34.1	them on the air. So this is going to be the first time that we actually have the questions
1:37.7	being asked live. So I hope that you've all brought your...
1:41.6	You mean we don't read their minds on the air?
1:44.5	No, that study was debunked, sorry.
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