Rationally Speaking #175 - Chris Blattman on "Do sweatshops reduce poverty?"
This episode explores the economics and ethics of low-paying factories (which some might call "sweatshops") in Ethiopia. Do they make their workers better off, relative to those people's outside optio...
8 Jan 201757min
Rationally Speaking #174 - John Ioannidis on "What happened to Evidence-based medicine?"
Over the last two decades, the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) movement has transformed medical science, pushing doctors to rely less on intuition or "common wisdom" in choosing treatments, and more on ...
11 Des 201645min
Rationally Speaking #173 - Brendan Nyhan on "What can we learn from the election?"
Since Trump's surprising win in the 2016 presidential election, there's been a flurry of discussion about why things turned out this way. But which explanations are well-supported, and which are wrong...
27 Nov 201639min
Rationally Speaking #172 - Brian Nosek on "Why science needs openness"
There's a growing anxiety about the quality of scientific research, as a depressingly large fraction of articles fail to replicate. Could "openness" solve that problem? This episode features Brian Nos...
13 Nov 201648min
Rationally Speaking #171 - Scott Aaronson on "The ethics and strategy of vote trading"
It can be pretty frustrating to live in a "safe" state during national elections, where the chance your vote will affect the overall results is practically zero. This episode, with professor Scott Aar...
30 Okt 201655min
Rationally Speaking #170 - Will Wilkinson on "Social justice and political philosophy"
How did "social justice" come to mean what it does today? This episode features a chat with Will Wilkinson, a writer, political philosopher, and vice president of policy for the Niskanen Institute. Wi...
16 Okt 201650min
Rationally Speaking #169 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on "Thinking About Humanity's Far Future"
What can we do now to affect whether humanity is still around in 1000 years (and what life will be like then)? In this episode, Julia talks with Owen Cotton-Barratt, a mathematician at Oxford's Future...
2 Okt 201649min
Rationally Speaking #168 - Don Moore on "Overconfidence"
This episode features a chat with Don Moore, professor of management of organizations at the University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and an expert in overconfidence. Don and Julia...
18 Sep 201647min
