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New York City Skeptics
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...
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4.6 stars from 1,093 ratings
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23frets via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 06/24/24
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of Julia and her conversations. Please come back.
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I really look up to Julia and her rational perspective of life. I hope she returns. We need more people like her!
Joe Nathan Scott via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/15/22
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