Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk
Rationally Speaking Podcast
English - February 13, 2011 15:30 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 464 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Social Sciences philosophy science skepticism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Rationally Speaking #27 - The Perihelinox Episode, With Historian Timothy Alborn on Anniversaries
Next Episode: Rationally Speaking #29 - Q&A Live!
Massimo and Julia sit down in front of a live audience at the Jefferson Market Library in New York City for a conversation about science, non-science, and pseudo-science. Based on Massimo's book: "Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk" the topics they cover include whether the qualitative sciences are less reliable than quantitative ones, the re-running of the tape of life, and who is smarter: physicists, biologists, or psychologists? Also, why are evolutionary psychologist so fixated on sex?
The live Q&A follows in episode 29