Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, December 2nd, 2019. I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria. I'm actually time traveling a little bit because although I'm recording this in my studio in Los Angeles

I am currently in it looks like I've just landed in Melbourne Australia fromchurch, where I'm doing a little tour with the Skeptics Guide to the universe at the skeptic conventions there in that part of the world.

So if I just saw you in Christchurch, that was fun, I think, even though it hasn't happened yet.

All right, I'm really excited about this week's show. We get to talk to Dr. Robert Creasease but before I dive into all that I want to thank those of you

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All right guys, so let's talk about this week's show. It is, oh my gosh, it's such a good one, it's everything I love. So this week, I get to talk to Dr. Robert Crease. He's the chair of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University.

He has a brand new book out called The Workshop and the World, what 10 thinkers can teach

us about science and authority.

So this book is all about kind of the public's relationship

with the idea of authority and science denial.

This is about what we can learn from the past,

from experiences of past thinkers

and the social context in which they existed.

And you know how that is telling us a lot about what's going on in our society right now.

So it's a really, really good one guys.

I can't, I can't say better things about it, so I think probably the best thing to do is I don't know just

listen I guess without any further ado here he is Dr Robert Prize

well Robert thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you for inviting me, Kara.

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