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The Age of Reason, with Dara Ó Briain
Dara Ó Briain presents The Age of Reason: How Logic Can Save Us…Again
The world in which we live faces the most serious challenges in almost every realm: social, economic, political, environmental… Many of the horrendous problems that humanity has created for itself, and the planet we inhabit, have their roots in bad practice and bad ideas, based on bad thinking. That is not to say *evil* thinking, but rather thinking that is unscientific, illogical, and prone to fallacies of all sorts. Dara Ó Briain and a panel of thinkers:
Dr. Aoife McLysaght, Lecturer in genetics at Trinity College, Dublin
Michael John Gorman, Director of the Science Gallery
Norah Casey, publisher, Entrepreneur and panelist on TV’s Dragon’s Den
Brian Lucey, Economist and associate professor of finance at Trinity College, Dublin.
They take sometimes a humorous journey through logic, reason and scientific thinking to see how their use solved problems in the past. Scientific thinking is not just for scientists, you know.
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