47 episodes

Every week we dig into an aspect of our world and look at it through the lens of science and critical thinking. We separate fact from fake as we explore diets, medicines, science news and trends. Jump in every week to get smarter and build your immunity against fads, pseudoscience and fake news.

The Rationable Podcast Abhijit Chanda

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Every week we dig into an aspect of our world and look at it through the lens of science and critical thinking. We separate fact from fake as we explore diets, medicines, science news and trends. Jump in every week to get smarter and build your immunity against fads, pseudoscience and fake news.

    Sanal Edemaruku: Paying the price for Skeptical Activism

    Sanal Edemaruku: Paying the price for Skeptical Activism

    Sanal Edemaruku is a renowned rationalist and skeptic activist respected the world over for his work. The consequences of one sincident forced him to seek asylum in Finland as religous fanatics threatened his life. In this episode, we hear his story.

    • 1 hr 22 min
    The Poison on your Plate

    The Poison on your Plate

    Krish Ashok speaks to Abhijit from Rationable about a variety of topics regarding the science of food like will refrigerating or freezing your food kill its nutritional value? Is Jaggery better than Sugar? What does the indian terms of calling food garam (hot) and thanda (cold) mean? What really are spices? Why plants are out to kill you, and a lot more.

    • 56 min
    How Seth Andrews Went From Believing in God to Hosting The Thinking Atheist

    How Seth Andrews Went From Believing in God to Hosting The Thinking Atheist

    I started my journey into atheism back around 2010. Seth's podcast was one of the first I started listening to. It really kind of had a really nice approach to it. It was very down to earth. It was very real, very human. And finally, I get to speak to him face to face.

    • 54 min
    Doubting your religion? Recovering From Religion can help! | Rob Palmer

    Doubting your religion? Recovering From Religion can help! | Rob Palmer

    Recovering from Religion is an organization I have heard a lot about over the years over Atheist podcasts from, Seth Andrews and Dogma Debate. They're doing a lot of good work in the US and beyond, and I think it's very good to be aware of organizations like this and try and support their work if we can. So if you're listening in the US and you haven't heard of them before, or you have heard of them and you haven't managed to help out in any way, this could be your chance to get, know, get to know more about it.

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Is Astrology Real or Fake?

    Is Astrology Real or Fake?

    Susan Gerbic and Mark Edward have spent years in psychic espionage and infiltration to understand and expose the tricks used by Astrologers and Psychics to take advantage of the vulnerable and grieving. In this interview, they reveal what they know.

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Why do people believe in pseudoscience?

    Why do people believe in pseudoscience?

    Today I am here with Pranav. He is the he's created the channel, Science is Dope and science very much is dope. And he's got his second channel going now, which is also seeing quite a bit of success where he is debating people left, right, and centre live-streaming it. And he's been a big inspiration for me to get back into the YouTube business.

    • 52 min

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