Rationally Speaking Podcast

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.

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Every guest on Rationally Speaking Podcast

168 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Simine Vazire
Rationally Speaking #204 - Simine Vazire on "Reforming psychology, and self-awareness" · Mar 2018

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Uri Simonsohn
Rationally Speaking #155 - Uri Simonsohn on "Detecting fraud in social science" · Mar 2016

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Jesse Singal
Rationally Speaking #192 - Jesse Singal on "The problems with implicit bias tests" · Sep 2017

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Lawrence Krauss
Rationally Speaking #106 - Live From NECSS With Lawrence Krauss · Apr 2014

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Marc Lipsitch
Rationally Speaking #137 - Marc Lipsitch on, "Should scientists try to create dangerous viruses?" · Jun 2015

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Michael Sandel
The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel) · Dec 2020

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Sally Satel
Rationally Speaking #96 - Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld on the Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience · Nov 2013

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Sarah Haider
Rationally Speaking #227 - Sarah Haider on "Dissent and free speech" · Feb 2019

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Toby Ord
Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord) · Dec 2021

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Will MacAskill
Rationally Speaking #181 - William MacAskill on "Moral Uncertainty" · Apr 2017

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Sam Arbesman
Rationally Speaking #167 - Samuel Arbesman on "Why technology is becoming too complex" · 2 episodes

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Alison Gopnik
Rationally Speaking #207 - Alison Gopnik on "The wrong way to think about parenting, plus the downsides of modernity" · Apr 2018

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Angus Deaton
Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton) · Nov 2020

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Carol Tavris
Rationally Speaking #23 - Carol Tavris on Everybody Making Mistakes, Except Us... · Dec 2010

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Elizabeth Loftus
Rationally Speaking #150 - Elizabeth Loftus on "The malleability of human memory" · Jan 2016

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Helen Toner
Rationally Speaking #231 - Helen Toner on "Misconceptions about China and artificial intelligence" · Apr 2019

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Michael Shermer
Rationally Speaking #134 - Michael Shermer on: "Science drives moral progress" · 2 episodes

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Paul Offit
Rationally Speaking #92 - Dr. Paul Offit On Believing in Magic · Sep 2013

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Philip Tetlock
Rationally Speaking #145 - Phil Tetlock on "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction" · Oct 2015

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Rationally Speaking #191 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on "What the internet can tell us about human nature" (Fixed) · Aug 2017

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Stephan Guyenet
Rationally Speaking #189 - Stephan Guyenet on "What causes obesity?" · Jul 2017

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Tania Lombrozo
Rationally Speaking #186 - Tania Lombrozo on "Why we evolved the urge to explain" · Jun 2017

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Timur Kuran
Rationally Speaking #198 - Timur Kuran on "Private Truths and Public Lies" · Dec 2017

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Vinay Prasad
Rationally Speaking #153 - Dr. Vinay Prasad on "Why so much of what we 'know' about medicine is wrong" · Feb 2016

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Andrew Gelman
Rationally Speaking #147 - Andrew Gelman on "Why do Americans vote the way they do?" · Nov 2015

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Benjamin Todd
Rationally Speaking #121 - Benjamin Todd on 80,000 Hours · Nov 2014

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Dani Rodrik
Rationally Speaking #179 - Dani Rodrik on "Is economics more art or science?" · Mar 2017

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Ed Boyden
Rationally Speaking #212 - Ed Boyden on "How to invent game-changing technologies" · Jul 2018

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John Ioannidis
Rationally Speaking #174 - John Ioannidis on "What happened to Evidence-based medicine?" · Dec 2016

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Michael Faye
Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye) · Dec 2021

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Rationally Speaking #109 - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex · 2 episodes

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Rob Reich
Rationally Speaking #221 - Rob Reich on "Is philanthropy bad for democracy?" · Nov 2018

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Rob Wiblin
Rationally Speaking #226 - Rob Wiblin on "An updated view of the best ways to help humanity" · Feb 2019

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Robert Frank
Rationally Speaking #165 - Robert Frank on "Success and Luck" · Aug 2016

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Zach Weinersmith
Rationally Speaking #195 - Zach Weinersmith on "Emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything" · 2 episodes

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Anthony Aguirre
Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus" · Aug 2018

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Brendan Nyhan
Rationally Speaking #173 - Brendan Nyhan on "What can we learn from the election?" · 2 episodes

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David Shor
Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor) · Dec 2020

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Eric Schwitzgebel
Rationally Speaking #196 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Weird ideas and opaque minds" · 3 episodes

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James Evans
Rationally Speaking #164 - James Evans on "Using meta-knowledge to learn how science works" · Jul 2016

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Recent episodes

263 episodes from the feed, newest first.

Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)
with Michael Faye

Dec 2021
Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)
with Toby Ord

Dec 2021
Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)
with Kevin Esvelt

Nov 2021
Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein)
with Ezra Klein

Nov 2021
The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)
with Kathryn Paige Harden

Oct 2021
How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)
with Kelsey Piper

Sep 2021
"Price gouging" in emergencies
Aug 2021
How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)
with Tim Harford

Jun 2021
Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?
Apr 2021
Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)
with William Baude

Mar 2021
Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)
with Vitalik Buterin

Mar 2021
Understanding moral disagreements (Jonathan Haidt)
with Jonathan Haidt

Feb 2021
The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)
with Matthew Yglesias

Feb 2021
What's wrong with tech companies banning people? (Julian Sanchez)
with Julian Sanchez

Jan 2021
The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes)
with Coleman Hughes

Jan 2021
Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor)
with David Shor

Dec 2020
The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel)
with Michael Sandel

Dec 2020
Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)
with Angus Deaton

Nov 2020
Are Boomers to blame for Millennials' struggles?
Nov 2020
Rationally Speaking #244 - Stephanie Lepp and Buster Benson on "Seeing other perspectives, with compassion"
with Stephanie Lepp

Nov 2019
Rationally Speaking #243 - Bryan Caplan on "The Case for Open Borders"
with Bryan Caplan

Nov 2019
Rationally Speaking #242 - Keith Frankish on "Why consciousness is an illusion"
with Keith Frankish

Oct 2019
Rationally Speaking #241 - Thibault Le Texier on "Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment"
with Thibault Le Texier

Oct 2019
Rationally Speaking #240 - David Manheim on "Goodhart's Law and why metrics fail"
with David Manheim

Sep 2019
Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different"
with Saloni Dattani

Sep 2019