Kevin Esvelt, a scientist at MIT, argues that research intended to prevent pandemics is actually putting us in a lot more danger. Also discussed: Kevin's own research on engineering wild animal species. Are the risks worth the benefits?
Rationally Speaking #163 - Gregg Caruso on "Free Will and Moral Responsibility"
Rationally Speaking #162 - Sean Carroll on "Poetic Naturalism"
Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By"
Rationally Speaking #160 - Live at NECSS -- Jacob Appel on "Tackling bioethical dilemmas"
Rationally Speaking #159 - Colin Allen on "Do fish feel pain?"
Rationally Speaking #158 - Dr. George Ainslie on "Negotiating with your future selves"
Rationally Speaking #157 - Dr. Herculano-Houzel on "What made the human brain special?"
Rationally Speaking #156 - David McRaney on "Why it’s so hard to change someone’s mind"
Rationally Speaking #155 - Uri Simonsohn on "Detecting fraud in social science"
Rationally Speaking #154 - Tom Griffiths on "Why your brain might be rational after all"
Rationally Speaking #153 - Dr. Vinay Prasad on "Why so much of what we 'know' about medicine is wrong"
Rationally Speaking #152 - Dan Fincke on "The pros and cons of civil disagreement"
Rationally Speaking #151 - Maria Konnikova on "Why everyone falls for con artists"
Rationally Speaking #150 - Elizabeth Loftus on "The malleability of human memory"
Rationally Speaking #149 - Susan Gelman on "How essentialism shapes our thinking"
Rationally Speaking #148 - David Kyle Johnson on "The Myths that Stole Christmas"
Rationally Speaking #147 - Andrew Gelman on "Why do Americans vote the way they do?"
Rationally Speaking #146 - Jesse Richardson on "The pros and cons of making fallacies famous"
Rationally Speaking #145 - Phil Tetlock on "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction"
Rationally Speaking #144 - Bryan Caplan on "Does parenting matter?"
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