Category: View from Giants’ shoulder

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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters with Steven Pinker

Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding–and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology...

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The Power of Human Collaboration and Innovation During and After a Crisis-Nicholas Christakis

An optimist whose research reveals time and again how human resilience and goodness prevail, even in the worst of times, Christakis emphasizes that throughout evolution, humans have acquired incredible skills to learn from each other – a sign of hope that we will win the fight against COVID-19...

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The Captivating Power of Reality- Guy P. Harrison, Leighann Lord

(This talk took place on August 19, 2021.) Author Guy P. Harrison is a passionate advocate for science and reason. He describes critical thinking as a moral issue and points to the neglect of good thinking skills and basic science education as humankind’s “great unrecognized crisis”. Guy aggressively...

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Interview with an ex-homeopath

ve interview on stream with an ex-homeopath Arif Hussain’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/arifhuss… My homeopathy video: https://youtu.be/c9B30BAKqEA Chapters 00:00 – Introduction 03:33 – Why did you leave homeopathy and when? 11:15 – The transition period of leaving homeopathy 14:53 – Respect of the Science communication community 15:47 – The legal...