Rationally Speaking Podcast

How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)

Sep 14, 2021

01:17:55

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Tips for Effective Research: Finding the Range of Possible Answers

01:17

Extracting raw data from doctors to evaluate risk

01:24

Timing and urgency in addressing climate change

01:14

Do You Really Know What You're Doing?

04:34

Introduction

2min

Is Covid Changing Your Views on Epistemology?

3min

Do You Really Know What You're Doing?

5min

Are You Often Wrong in a Systematic Direction?

2min

What's the First Hour of Research?

3min

Listen to Reasonable People

2min

Is There a Circulation in the US?

3min

Cove, You Know, Is Going to Be a Big Deal?

4min

Is There an Official or Unofficial Norm in the Media to Be Really Reluctant to Be More Worried Than the Mainstream Scientific Consensus?

2min

10.

Health and Science Reporters - Is This an Emergency?

2min

11.

Can the CDC Be Trusted in Different Kinds of Sources?

2min

12.

How to Think About Evidence

3min

13.

Are You Thinking About Taking Fluvoxmine?

2min

14.

Are You Suspect? Or Is It a Weird Endpoint?

4min

15.

Are You Underpower to Detect an Effect?

2min

16.

P = Point O Five, Cut Off for Statistical Significance

2min

17.

Fluvaxmin

2min

18.

Ivor Mectan

4min

19.

Is Prophylactically a Good Thing?

2min

20.

Iver Meton or the Miracle Cure That the Government Is Hitting for You?

4min

21.

Do You Think Evermecdan Is a Horsed Wormer?

3min

22.

Is There a Connection Between Economic Growth and Human Growth?

3min

23.

Are We Trying to Change People's Hearts and Minds?

4min

24.

Climate Change

3min

25.

Climate Change

2min

26.

Is There a Future for Climate Change?

3min

27.

Population Ethics

3min

28.

I Want That Planet Exist, Right?

2min

29.

Ivormecton Prophylaxis

2min

Journalist Kelsey Piper (Future Perfect / Vox) discusses lessons learned from covering COVID: What has she been wrong about, and why? How much can we trust the CDC's advice? What does the evidence look like for different drugs like Fluvoxamine and Ivermectin? And should regular people really try to evaluate the evidence themselves instead of deferring to experts?

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