Rationally Speaking #6 - Fluffy Thinking
<p>Fluffy Thinking is a peculiar type of uncritical thinking that sounds sophisticated, and is next to impossible to criticize frontally both because it barely has anything to do with empirical eviden...
25 Okt 202032min
Rationally Speaking #5 - Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Need for a Space Program
<p>Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Massimo and Julia to discuss the need for a space program. Many scientists (and most people in the skeptic community) simply assume that funding outlets like NASA are ...
25 Okt 202033min
Rationally Speaking #4 - The Great Atheist Debate Over the Limits of Science
"Accommodationist" is a word that began to appear in recent months during public debates over science and religion. The derogatory term has been applied to atheists and rationalists like Eugenie Scott...
25 Okt 202031min
Rationally Speaking #3 - Can History Be a Science?
Our guest, Prof. Peter Turchin from the University of Connecticut, joins Massimo and Julia to discuss whether history can be studied and understood in a scientific manner. In an article in Nature (3 J...
25 Okt 202024min
Rationally Speaking #2 - Love, a Skeptical Inquiry
Will science ever really be able to explain love? Science has already found correlations between particular hormones and certain forms or stages of love. However, no matter how many correlations we fi...
25 Okt 202030min
Rationally Speaking #1 - Why be rational?
Why is "speaking rationally" a worthwhile goal anyway? It’s not self-evident, at least not to many people. Human beings certainly don’t seem made for it. Aristotle may have famously dubbed us "the rat...
25 Okt 202032min
