Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk
Oct 27, 2020•48 min
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Episode description
<p>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?</p> <p>The live Q&A follows in episode 29</p>
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