Episode 70: The Science of Arguing

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Greg Christensen discusses the science of argumentation and persuasion with Richelle McCullough and special guest Seren Gordon.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

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Posted by on 19 November 2013 in Politics, Religion, Science, Skepticism and tagged , , , , , , , , , .

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Medical student and former software developer. Host of the Life, the Universe & Everything Else podcast. Past organizer of the Winnipeg Skeptics. Former board chair at Bad Science Watch. Writer of things. Grower of beards. He/him.

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