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A Recast of ‘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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Recastable Episodes (263)

1. Rationally Speaking #1 - Why be rational? Jan. 21, 2010
2. Rationally Speaking #2 - Love, a Skeptical Inquiry Feb. 14, 2010
3. Rationally Speaking #3 - Can History Be a Science? Feb. 28, 2010
4. Rationally Speaking #4 - The Great Atheist Debate Over the Limits of Science March 14, 2010
5. Rationally Speaking #5 - Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Need for a Space Program March 28, 2010
6. Rationally Speaking #6 - Fluffy Thinking April 10, 2010
7. Rationally Speaking #7 - Peter Woit discusses whether string theory is "not even wrong" April 25, 2010
8. Rationally Speaking #8 - The Anthropic Principle May 9, 2010
9. Rationally Speaking #9 - When Smart People Endorse Pseudoscience May 23, 2010
10. Rationally Speaking #10 - Nonsense on Stilts June 6, 2010
11. Rationally Speaking #11 - Guest Eugenie Scott on the Status of the Creationism and ID Wars June 20, 2010
12. Rationally Speaking #12 - What About Thought Experiments? July 4, 2010
13. Rationally Speaking #13 - Superstition, Is It Good For You? July 18, 2010
14. Rationally Speaking #14 - Jennifer Michael Hecht on Science, Religion, Happiness, and Other Myths Aug. 1, 2010
15. Rationally Speaking #15 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia Aug. 15, 2010
16. Rationally Speaking #16 - Deferring to Experts Aug. 29, 2010
17. Rationally Speaking #17 - Transhumanism Sept. 12, 2010
18. Rationally Speaking #18 - Evolutionary Psychology Sept. 26, 2010
19. Rationally Speaking #19 - Brendan Nyhan on False Beliefs that Refuse to Die Oct. 10, 2010
20. Rationally Speaking #20 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia Oct. 24, 2010
21. Rationally Speaking #21 - Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy Nov. 7, 2010
22. Rationally Speaking #22 - Steven Novella on Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science Nov. 21, 2010
23. Rationally Speaking #23 - Carol Tavris on Everybody Making Mistakes, Except Us... Dec. 5, 2010
24. Rationally Speaking #24 - Memetics! Dec. 19, 2010
25. Rationally Speaking #25 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia Jan. 2, 2011
26. Rationally Speaking #26 - Is Anthropology Still a Science? Jan. 16, 2011
27. Rationally Speaking #27 - The Perihelinox Episode, With Historian Timothy Alborn on Anniversaries Jan. 30, 2011
28. Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk Feb. 13, 2011
29. Rationally Speaking #29 - Q&A Live! Feb. 27, 2011
30. Rationally Speaking #30 - Cordelia Fine on Delusions of Gender March 13, 2011
31. Rationally Speaking #31 - Vegetarianism March 27, 2011
32. Rationally Speaking #32 - Value-free Science? April 10, 2011
33. Rationally Speaking #33 - Live at NECSS: New Dilemmas in Bioethics April 24, 2011
34. Rationally Speaking #34 - Celebrities and the Damage They Can Do May 8, 2011
35. Rationally Speaking #35 - What is Philosophy of Science Good for? May 22, 2011
36. Rationally Speaking #36 - Why Should We Care About Teaching the Humanities? June 5, 2011
37. Rationally Speaking #37 - The Science and Philosophy of Happiness June 19, 2011
38. Rationally Speaking #38 - Holden Karnofsky on Evidence-based Philanthropy July 3, 2011
39. Rationally Speaking #39 - The Science and Philosophy of Free Will July 17, 2011
40. Rationally Speaking #40 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia July 31, 2011
41. Rationally Speaking #41 - Robert Zaretsky on Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding Aug. 14, 2011
42. Rationally Speaking #42 - On the Limits of Reason Aug. 28, 2011
43. Rationally Speaking #43 - Women in Skepticism Sept. 11, 2011
44. Rationally Speaking #44 - Fluff that Works Sept. 25, 2011
45. Rationally Speaking #45 - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Spinoza, Göedl, and Theories of Everything Oct. 9, 2011
46. Rationally Speaking #46 - The Varieties of Skepticism Oct. 23, 2011
47. Rationally Speaking #47 - SETI Nov. 6, 2011
48. Rationally Speaking #48 - Philosophical Counseling Nov. 20, 2011
49. Rationally Speaking #49 - Eugenie C. Scott on Denialism of Climate Change and Evolution Dec. 4, 2011
50. Rationally Speaking #50 - Neurobabble Dec. 18, 2011
51. Rationally Speaking #51 - Joseph Heath on Economics Without Illusions Jan. 1, 2012
52. Rationally Speaking #52 - Donald Prothero on the Holocaust-Deniers' Playbook Jan. 16, 2012
53. Rationally Speaking #53 - Parapsychology Jan. 30, 2012
54. Rationally Speaking #54 - The 'isms' Episode Feb. 12, 2012
55. Rationally Speaking #55 - Spirituality Feb. 27, 2012
56. Rationally Speaking #56 - Howard Schneider on Science News Literacy March 11, 2012
57. Rationally Speaking #57 - Peer Review March 25, 2012
58. Rationally Speaking #58 - Intuition April 8, 2012
59. Rationally Speaking #59 - Live at NECSS: David Kyle Johnson on the Simulation Argument April 25, 2012
60. Rationally Speaking #60 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia May 6, 2012
61. Rationally Speaking #61 - Willpower May 20, 2012
62. Rationally Speaking #62 - Patricia Churchland on What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality June 4, 2012
63. Rationally Speaking #63 - Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge June 17, 2012
64. Rationally Speaking #64 - Jesse Prinz on Looking Beyond Human Nature July 1, 2012
65. Rationally Speaking #65 - Philosophical Shock Tactics July 15, 2012
66. Rationally Speaking #66 - Matthew Hutson on The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking July 29, 2012
67. Rationally Speaking #67 - Freudianism as Pseudoscience, With Assorted Comments on Masturbation and Castration... Aug. 12, 2012
68. Rationally Speaking #68 - Applied Rationality Aug. 26, 2012
69. Rationally Speaking #69 - James Ladyman on Metaphysics Sept. 9, 2012
70. Rationally Speaking #70 - Graham Priest on Buddhism and Other Asian Philosophies Sept. 23, 2012
71. Rationally Speaking #71 - On Science Fiction and Philosophy Oct. 7, 2012
72. Rationally Speaking #72 - Graham Priest on Paradoxes and Paraconsistent Logic Oct. 21, 2012
73. Rationally Speaking #73 - Answers for Aristotle Nov. 4, 2012
74. Rationally Speaking #74 - Live! John Shook on Philosophy of Religion Nov. 18, 2012
75. Rationally Speaking #75 - When Scientists Kill Dec. 2, 2012
76. Rationally Speaking #76 - Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds Dec. 16, 2012
77. Rationally Speaking #77 - Victoria Pitts-Taylor on Feminism and Science Dec. 30, 2012
78. Rationally Speaking #78 - Intelligence and Personality Testing Jan. 13, 2013
79. Rationally Speaking #79 - Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science Jan. 27, 2013
80. Rationally Speaking #80 - Dear Abby Feb. 10, 2013
81. Rationally Speaking #81 - Live! Ben Goldacre on Bad Pharma Feb. 24, 2013
82. Rationally Speaking #82 - It's Not Easy Being Green March 10, 2013
83. Rationally Speaking #83 - Samuel Arbesman On The Half-Life of Facts March 25, 2013
84. Rationally Speaking #84 - Stephen Asma On the Myth of Universal Love April 7, 2013
85. Rationally Speaking #85 - Live From NECSS With Michael Shermer On the Role of Science in Morality April 21, 2013
86. Rationally Speaking #86 - Live From NECSS With Jim Holt On Why Does the World Exist? May 5, 2013
87. Rationally Speaking #87 - Sean Carroll on Naturalism May 19, 2013
88. Rationally Speaking #88 - Mario Livio on Brilliant Blunders June 3, 2013
89. Rationally Speaking #89 - Online Dating June 16, 2013
90. Rationally Speaking #90 - On Wine, Water, and Audio June 30, 2013
91. Rationally Speaking #91 - Kendrick Frazier On Skeptical Inquiry Sept. 1, 2013
92. Rationally Speaking #92 - Dr. Paul Offit On Believing in Magic Sept. 15, 2013
93. Rationally Speaking #93 - Dr. Michael E. Mann On The Science Of Climate Change Sept. 29, 2013
94. Rationally Speaking #94 - Maarten Boudry on Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem Oct. 3, 2013
95. Rationally Speaking #95 - Gerard O'Brien On the Computational Theory of Mind Oct. 27, 2013
96. Rationally Speaking #96 - Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld on the Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience Nov. 10, 2013
97. Rationally Speaking #97 - Peter Singer on Being a Utilitarian in the Real World Nov. 25, 2013
98. Rationally Speaking #98 - Jerome Wakefield on Psychiatric Diagnoses: Science or Pseudoscience? Dec. 8, 2013
99. Rationally Speaking #99 - Judith Schlesinger Exposes the Myth of the Mad Genius Dec. 22, 2013
100. Rationally Speaking #100 - Live Q&A: Massimo and Julia Answer Everything! Jan. 27, 2014
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