Science Beyond Safe Spaces with Lawrence Krauss

I now look forward to these each week. I’d never have guessed when I became an atheist how much joy I’d find. Thank You Professor Dawkins for giving me that gift and for freeing me.

Mr. Dawkins and Mr. Krauss. thank you for being sane humans. Pillars of true courage and curiosity and reality. Rocks in a world of insanity.

Krauss has so much going on is his thoughts, he could talk for hours and I'd never got bored. Both are fantastic communicators for science.

"You should be taught to question YOURSELF." Yes, yes, yes. The greatest gift University taught me. Thank you Lawrence.

Literally the two men who took my curiosity for science and ignited it into a full blown passion. Always a pleasure to listen to them in conversation. Thank you for this.

Two of my favorite people ever.

Cheers to all the truth seekers! Thank you, Dawkins, for being who you are. You and Mr. Krauss always do an excellent job of helping us grasp complicated subjects. Your fan from the middle east ❤️

Loved that I lived while, Dawkins, Hitchens, Krause, Dennet, Barker, And Seth Andrews were around!

Thank you so much maestros Dawkins & Krauss for all the knowledge and wisdom you share with us through the years! regards from Israel (hoping for a better times).

Thank you Prof. Dawkins & Dr. Krauss for defending the scientific community's requisite freedom to discuss and challenge any idea, even "heretic" ideas. Without freedom to challenge (test) every idea, it allows unproven & wrong ideas (potentially destroying science). Thank you for resisting/exposing it. P.S., I particularly enjoyed this longer format. Your questioning the "collapses to a point" idea was valid, prescient.

I'm glad there are some speaking publicly about Woke fundamentalism. Always a pleasure to see you both, whatever the format.

I've worked in health & safety for 30 years. I loathe the way safety is being misused and devalued. Safety should be physical safety, not being injured or killed. Having to think about things you don't like or agree with is needed. It's how you learn and grow as a human being.

Another aspect of what people call "woke" or more broadly "social justice" is that it is a symptom of the human bias toward believing moral narratives. We experience moral narratives as having greater truth than facts. Moral narratives keep people true to their tribe. Moral narratives are highly motivating resulting in motivated reasoning and bias. When the prevailing perspective in an academic discipline is built on a moral narrative, such as any conflict theory (critical theory), the entire enterprise become compromised and ideological. That is the current state of the humanities and social sciences. Academia has become extremely ideological.

The Two Greatest Exponents of Clear Rational Thinking of Scientific knowledge and understanding of our Universe ...Stupendous Reasoning...Thank you Sirs Dawkins and Krauss...

Richard and Lawrence thank you for standing up for science. So many of us cannot. Anti science has taken over Athiest groups. I joined because Richard encouraged me out of the Athiest closet. Now I have left my group because of anti science beliefs about sex. Please keep up speaking about this. I wish more scientists were brave enough to do so.

This is one of the best discussions I have heard. The questions were excellent and the answers clarified a lot of misconceptions that I had.

Wonderful stuff. Wish there was more of this kind of thing on youtube.

There are two kinds of people, those about whom we learn, and those from whom we learn, like these gentlemen.

Fascinating conversation, thank you! I'm so happy that both of you are as outspoken as you are against today's insanities. We need as many voices of reason as we can get so the tide hopefully turns back towards the values of enlightenment. Safety has become such an ambivalent term for me in recent times. Drink safe, drive safe -- all fine. But study and learn and grow as "dangerously" as possible :)

Well I'm kind of speechless how much damage has already affected prestigious universities by woke and canceling culture. It's like we have learned nothing from the long gone Communist era, as you rightfully said. People often joke about North Korea, but they don't see that the same repression principle IS being used now, just at different scale, topics and level. But that scares me so much because our children are learning by those principles and are being hit by it. I truly admire the work of Mr. Dawkins and his likes and hope the science and critical thinking will prevail.