Episode 14: Vices (with Elizabeth Page-Gould)
Yoel and Mickey have their first repeat guest as Liz Page-Gould joins them to talk vices. Weed, booze and porn are all on the table (well, not literally) as we take on some popular vices. Why do you g...
21 Nov 20181h 14min
Episode 13: What's Wrong with the IAT? (with Jesse Singal)
Journalist Jesse Singal joins Yoel and Mickey to talk about the state of science journalism, what he thinks is wrong with how people interpret the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and the pros and con...
7 Nov 20181h
Episode 12: Everybody Hates Social Media
Mickey and Yoel take on social media. What are the upsides and downsides of being on social media, particularly Twitter? Why does Mickey ban himself from social media for most of the day? What led Yoe...
24 Okt 20181h 3min
Episode 11: No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?
Yoel and Mickey discuss how scientists should publicize their work. Should scientists issue press releases about their findings? Should they write op-ed columns to communicate directly with the public...
10 Okt 20181h 1min
Episode 10: Conservative Social Psychologist Wanted (with Clay Routledge)
Yoel and Mickey welcome Clay Routledge to the show. Clay is a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University who studies the cognitive and motivational consequences of the search for meaning...
26 Sep 20181h 13min
Episode 9: Giving the Finger (with Alice Dreger)
Yoel and Mickey welcome author, journalist, historian, and bioethicist Alice Dreger to the show. Alice, who wrote Galileo’s Middle Finger, discusses how her upbringing, her academic background, and he...
12 Sep 20181h
Episode 8: Confessions of a Science Critic (with James Heathers)
Yoel and Mickey welcome Northeastern University research scientist and science critic James Heathers to their show. Yoel, Mickey, and James discuss science reform and the need for robust science criti...
29 Aug 20181h 2min
Episode 7: When Does the Left Go Too Far?
Yoel and Mickey ask how to know when the political Left has gone too far. Assuming the Left can indeed go too far--turning off even other progressives who feel abandoned by their natural political hom...
15 Aug 20181h 14min
