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Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk
Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Feb 13, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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
The live Q&A follows in episode 29
Released:
Feb 13, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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