i think there is a little bit of this sort of gray area, an where you conflate what they're doing with art. And this is also like, belief, relief. You're missing the point. If you're just focused on whether this thing is actually real or not, like that, you're, you're not focused on the right thing. It can seem disingenuous, but i get it to an extent. But that movie moves me to appreciate the tragedy of life and death in a way that that nothing else.
David and Tamler return after an end of summer hiatus to finally talk about the ethics of deception….eventually. But first they break down a recent article in the journal Science documenting an attempt to replicate 100 recent psychology experiments. What does it mean that just over 1/3 of the studies were successfully replicated? Is social psychology in crisis or is this just how science works? Will David somehow try to pin the blame on philosophers?
Plus--a brief and almost certainly regrettable foray into the Ashley Madison hack, the neuroscience of lying to your kids about Santa, and we announce a new way to contact us to help celebrate our 75th anniversary.
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