Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSIO516: How a Botched 1840 Census "Proved" Freedom Made Black Americans Disabled, with Sari Altschuler
Episode 516
The history of disability rights is often treated as a modern story, but what if that framing misses centuries of earlier, more complicated history? …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
SIO515: A Vast, Global Network! ... of 3 Guys
Episode 515
Continuing the discussion of the CNN Rape Academy article. It gets even worse. And also, how our information environment is ruined and getting ruined…
3 months, 1 week ago
SIO514: No Part of the "62 Million Men Enrolled In Online Rape Academy" Claim Was Correct
Episode 514
You might have seen the CNN article from a while back entitled Exposing a global ‘rape academy’. While most of the article is technically true, the b…
3 months, 1 week ago
SIO513: Debunking Butler Conspiracy Theories in Descending Order by Scope
Episode 513
We continue the pruning of idiotic Butler Shooting conspiracy theories. Once we establish the facts using actual sources, what room is there left for…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
SIO512: NO It Was Not Staged. Stop Being Joe Rogan.
Episode 512
It wasn't staged. None of them were staged. Yes Trump was shot in the ear. I thought you all were doing a bit, but apparently you weren't. This isn't…
4 months ago
SIO511: What a Recent Chappell Roan Incident Teaches Us About Sexism
Episode 511
Well, what do you know - it's a day that ends in y so the internet has a woman to hate. You might have seen some of the chatter about child-hating Ch…
4 months, 1 week ago
SIO510: Digging Into the Science of the Placebo Effect
Episode 510
Popular media will tell you that placebos, inert inactive substances taken as if they’re medication, can work miracles. …Placebos don’t “work”. But…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
SIO509: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right (And Very Wrong...) About Biology
Episode 509
Everyone's favorite biologist and dinosaur enthusiast Dr. Eric Jaffe is back! Project Hail Mary is a very fun, and quite good, sciency movie that is …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
SIO508: The Data Shows That Authoritarianism Is Very Often Successfully Reversed. Yes, Really.
Episode 508
“Yes we can” vote and protest our way out of authoritarianism.
It’s a classic case of academic literature never making it to mainstream consumption. …
5 months ago
SIO507: Shirley You're Joking, Minnesota Fraud Man!
Episode 507
It's part 2 of the Minnesota fraud stuff. We get a little more Nick Shirley, dumbest person ever to testify in congress. And then I debunk the main c…
5 months ago