Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and gu
Our guest, Carol Tavris discusses her book (co-authored with Elliot Aronson) "Mistakes Were Made (Bu
Our Guest, Dr. Steven Novella discusses a recent article in The Atlantic in which researcher John Io
Our guest, Joshua Knobe, is a philosopher interested in cognitive science, so interested, in fact, t
Massimo and Julia answer listeners' questions. In this installment the topics include: can political
Ever notice how some beliefs only seem to become stronger, even as they're repeatedly debunked? For
You’ve heard the claims: men are inclined to cheat on women because natural selection favors multipl
What's so great about being human, anyway? The transhumanist movement -- epitomized by organizations
At a talk he gave at TAM 8, Massimo argued that non-experts in a field aren't qualified to reject an
In the first of what we hope will be a regular feature of Rationally speaking, Massimo and Julia ans
Author, science historian, philosopher, and poet Jennifer Michael Hecht discusses her views on scien
Is it possible that superstition is actually good for you? Well, it turns out that superstition may,
Philosophers are often accused of engaging in armchair speculation, as far removed from reality as p
Our special guest this episode is Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Scien
The focus of this episode is Massimo's new book, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk.
It’s very easy to make fun of not-so-educated people who reject evolution, but what happens when one
The Anthropic Principle (AP), in its many forms, attempts to explain why our observations of the phy
We are taking on fundamental physics! Our guest, Peter Woit, is a physicist in the Department of Mat
Fluffy Thinking is a peculiar type of uncritical thinking that sounds sophisticated, and is next to
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Massimo and Julia to discuss the need for a space program. Many scient
"Accommodationist" is a word that began to appear in recent months during public debates over scienc
