Rationally Speaking Podcast
New York City Skeptics
Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.
Categorieën: Wetenschap en geneeskunde
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The idea of giving poor people cash, no strings attached, is "very unappealing" for most donors, admits economist Michael Faye -- but it's still one of the best ways to help the poor. Michael and Julia discuss the philosophy behind his organization (GiveDirectly), the evidence we have so far about cash transfers as an anti-poverty intervention, and the various concerns people have about it: How long-lasting are the effects? Does it make recipients less likely to work? Does it cause inflation?
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263 - Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye) Thu, 23 Dec 2021 - 0h
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262 - Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord) Fri, 10 Dec 2021
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261 - Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt) Tue, 30 Nov 2021
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260 - Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein) Fri, 05 Nov 2021
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259 - The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden) Fri, 15 Oct 2021
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258 - How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper) Tue, 14 Sep 2021
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257 - "Price gouging" in emergencies Thu, 19 Aug 2021 - 0h
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256 - How to be a data detective (Tim Harford) Thu, 10 Jun 2021
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255 - Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited? Fri, 09 Apr 2021
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254 - Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude) Fri, 19 Mar 2021
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253 - Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin) Thu, 04 Mar 2021
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252 - Understanding moral disagreements (Jonathan Haidt) Thu, 18 Feb 2021
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251 - The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias) Wed, 03 Feb 2021
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250 - What’s wrong with tech companies banning people? (Julian Sanchez) Wed, 20 Jan 2021 - 0h
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249 - The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes) Tue, 05 Jan 2021
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248 - Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor) Tue, 22 Dec 2020
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247 - The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel) Tue, 08 Dec 2020 - 0h
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246 - Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton) Tue, 24 Nov 2020
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245 - Are Boomers to blame for Millennials' struggles? Mon, 09 Nov 2020 - 0h
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244 - Rationally Speaking #244 - Stephanie Lepp and Buster Benson on "Seeing other perspectives, with compassion" Sat, 30 Nov 2019 - 0h
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243 - Rationally Speaking #243 - Bryan Caplan on "The Case for Open Borders" Tue, 12 Nov 2019 - 0h
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242 - Rationally Speaking #242 - Keith Frankish on "Why consciousness is an illusion" Tue, 29 Oct 2019 - 0h
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241 - Rationally Speaking #241 - Thibault Le Texier on "Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment" Tue, 15 Oct 2019 - 0h
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240 - Rationally Speaking #240 - David Manheim on "Goodhart's Law and why metrics fail" Tue, 17 Sep 2019 - 0h
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239 - Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different" Tue, 03 Sep 2019 - 0h
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238 - Rationally Speaking #238 - Razib Khan on "Stuff I've Been Wrong About" Tue, 20 Aug 2019 - 0h
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237 - Rationally Speaking #237 - Andy Przybylski on "Is screen time bad for you?" Tue, 06 Aug 2019 - 0h
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236 - Rationally Speaking #236 - Alex Tabarrok on "Why are the Prices So D*mn High?" Tue, 23 Jul 2019 - 0h
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235 - Rationally Speaking #235 - Tage Rai on "Why people think their violence is morally justified" Tue, 25 Jun 2019 - 0h
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234 - Rationally Speaking #234 - Dylan Matthews on "Global poverty has fallen, but what should we conclude from that?" Tue, 28 May 2019
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233 - Rationally Speaking #233 - Clive Thompson on "The culture of coding, and how it’s changing the world" Mon, 13 May 2019 - 0h
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232 - Rationally Speaking #232 - Tyler Cowen on "Defending big business against its critics" Tue, 30 Apr 2019
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231 - Rationally Speaking #231 - Helen Toner on "Misconceptions about China and artificial intelligence" Tue, 16 Apr 2019 - 0h
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230 - Rationally Speaking #230 - Kelsey Piper on “Big picture journalism: covering the topics that matter in the long run” Tue, 02 Apr 2019 - 0h
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229 - Rationally Speaking #229 - John Nerst on "Erisology, the study of disagreement" Tue, 19 Mar 2019
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228 - Rationally Speaking #228 - William Gunn and Alex Holcombe on "Is Elsevier helping or hurting scientific progress?" Tue, 05 Mar 2019 - 0h
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227 - Rationally Speaking #227 - Sarah Haider on "Dissent and free speech" Mon, 18 Feb 2019 - 0h
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226 - Rationally Speaking #226 - Rob Wiblin on "An updated view of the best ways to help humanity" Tue, 05 Feb 2019 - 0h
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225 - Rationally Speaking #225 - Neerav Kingsland on "The case for charter schools" Mon, 21 Jan 2019 - 0h
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224 - Rationally Speaking #224 - Rick Nevin on "The long-term effects of lead on crime" Mon, 07 Jan 2019
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223 - Rationally Speaking #223 - Chris Fraser on "The Mohists, ancient China's philosopher warriors" Mon, 17 Dec 2018 - 0h
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222 - Rationally Speaking #222 - Spencer Greenberg and Seth Cottrell on "Ask a Mathematician, Ask a Physicist" Mon, 03 Dec 2018 - 0h
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221 - Rationally Speaking #221 - Rob Reich on "Is philanthropy bad for democracy?" Wed, 14 Nov 2018 - 0h
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220 - Rationally Speaking #220 - Peter Eckersley on "Tough choices on privacy and artificial intelligence" Sun, 28 Oct 2018
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219 - Rationally Speaking #219 - Jason Collins on "A skeptical take on behavioral economics" Mon, 15 Oct 2018 - 0h
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218 - Rationally Speaking #218 - Chris Auld on "Good and bad critiques of economics" Mon, 01 Oct 2018 - 0h
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217 - Rationally Speaking #217 - Aviv Ovadya on "The problem of false, biased, and artificial news" Sun, 16 Sep 2018 - 0h
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216 - Rationally Speaking #216 - Diana Fleischman on "Being a transhumanist evolutionary psychologist" Mon, 03 Sep 2018 - 0h
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215 - Rationally Speaking #215 - Anders Sandberg on "Thinking about the long-term future of humanity" Mon, 20 Aug 2018 - 0h
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214 - Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus" Mon, 06 Aug 2018 - 0h