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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Colin Allen
Rationally Speaking #159 - Colin Allen on "Do fish feel pain?" · May 2016

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Cordelia Fine
Rationally Speaking #30 - Cordelia Fine on Delusions of Gender · Mar 2011

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Dan Fincke
Rationally Speaking #152 - Dan Fincke on "The pros and cons of civil disagreement" · Feb 2016

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David Kyle Johnson
Rationally Speaking #148 - David Kyle Johnson on "The Myths that Stole Christmas" · 2 episodes

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David Roodman
Rationally Speaking #180 - David Roodman on "The Worm Wars" · 2 episodes

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Don Moore
Rationally Speaking #168 - Don Moore on "Overconfidence" · Sep 2016

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Donald Prothero
Rationally Speaking #52 - Donald Prothero on the Holocaust-Deniers' Playbook · Jan 2012

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Eric Jonas
Rationally Speaking #193 - Eric Jonas on "Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?" · Sep 2017

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Eugenie Scott
Rationally Speaking #49 - Eugenie C. Scott on Denialism of Climate Change and Evolution · 2 episodes

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George Ainslie
Rationally Speaking #158 - Dr. George Ainslie on "Negotiating with your future selves" · May 2016

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Gerard O'Brien
Rationally Speaking #95 - Gerard O'Brien On the Computational Theory of Mind · Oct 2013

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Greta Christina
Rationally Speaking #105 - Greta Christina on Coming Out Atheist · Apr 2014

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Hans Noel
Rationally Speaking #185 - Hans Noel on "The role of ideology in politics" · May 2017

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Howard Schneider
Rationally Speaking #56 - Howard Schneider on Science News Literacy · Mar 2012

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James Randi
Rationally Speaking #131 - James Randi on Being An Honest Liar · Apr 2015

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Jason Collins
Rationally Speaking #219 - Jason Collins on "A skeptical take on behavioral economics" · Oct 2018

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Jason Weeden
Rationally Speaking #187 - Jason Weeden on "Do people vote based on self-interest?" · Jun 2017

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Jerome Wakefield
Rationally Speaking #98 - Jerome Wakefield on Psychiatric Diagnoses: Science or Pseudoscience? · Dec 2013

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Jessica Flanigan
Rationally Speaking #199 - Jessica Flanigan on "Why people should have the right to self-medicate" · Jan 2018

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Jim Baggott
Rationally Speaking #116 - Jim Baggott and Massimo on Farewell to Reality · Sep 2014

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John Nerst
Rationally Speaking #229 - John Nerst on "Erisology, the study of disagreement" · Mar 2019

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John Shook
Rationally Speaking #74 - Live! John Shook on Philosophy of Religion · Nov 2012

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Joseph Heath
Rationally Speaking #51 - Joseph Heath on Economics Without Illusions · Jan 2012

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Judith Schlesinger
Rationally Speaking #99 - Judith Schlesinger Exposes the Myth of the Mad Genius · Dec 2013

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

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Kal Turnbull
Rationally Speaking #206 - Kal Turnbull on "Change My View" · Apr 2018

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Kelsey Piper
How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper) · 2 episodes

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Kendrick Frazier
Rationally Speaking #91 - Kendrick Frazier On Skeptical Inquiry · Sep 2013

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Kenny Easwaran
Rationally Speaking #140 - Kenny Easwaran on "Newcomb's Paradox and the tragedy of rationality" · Aug 2015

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L. A. Paul
Rationally Speaking #183 - L. A. Paul on "Transformative Experiences" · Apr 2017

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Matthew Hutson
Rationally Speaking #66 - Matthew Hutson on The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking · Jul 2012

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Michael Webb
Rationally Speaking #205 - Michael Webb on "Are ideas getting harder to find?" · Apr 2018

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Neerav Kingsland
Rationally Speaking #225 - Neerav Kingsland on "The case for charter schools" · Jan 2019

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Owen Cotton-Barratt
Rationally Speaking #169 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on "Thinking About Humanity's Far Future" · Oct 2016

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Peter Eckersley
Rationally Speaking #220 - Peter Eckersley on "Tough choices on privacy and artificial intelligence" · Oct 2018

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Preston Bost
Rationally Speaking #126 - Preston Bost on Crazy Beliefs, Sane Believers · Jan 2015

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Rick Nevin
Rationally Speaking #224 - Rick Nevin on "The long-term effects of lead on crime" · Jan 2019

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Robert Zaretsky
Rationally Speaking #41 - Robert Zaretsky on Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding · Aug 2011

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

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Seth Cottrell

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Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)
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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

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

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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
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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