Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSIO305: July Patreon QnA!
After some thrilling haircut talk, we get to this month's questions! Topics this time include: choosing government by sortition, Manchin and Sinema …
4 years, 7 months ago
SIO304: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? Part 2: The Study So Bad It Made Quillette Look Good
Continuing from the last episode, Lindsey backs up her claim that the bulk of the terrible science was yet to come. WOW. This study was complete gar…
4 years, 7 months ago
SIO303: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? AKA Debunking a Garbage Quillette Article About a Garbage Study
Holy both sides, Batman! Yeah no suspense on this one, Quillette is garbage and the study this article references is garbage. But how garbage and …
4 years, 7 months ago
SIO302: Are Boomers Narcissistic? Are Millennials Entitled? What a Large Narcissism Study Does and Doesn't Tell Us
This episode was inspired by this Insider article, Baby Boomers Are More Sensitive Than Millennials. Science is often butchered by the media, so I …
4 years, 8 months ago
SIO301: Evidence Based Mental Healthcare, with Dr. Caleb Lack
Today Lindsey and I are joined by Dr. Caleb Lack. Caleb is a full professor of psychology at the University of Central Oklahoma, and he's here to tal…
4 years, 8 months ago
SIO300: June Patreon QnA!
It's episode 300! And also the June patreon QnA! Topics covered include: moral panics – does the left engage in them too? Syria and an old SIO guest…
4 years, 8 months ago
SIO299: Debunking CRT Attacks with Dr. Ery Shin
You've seen Critical Race Theory discussed everywhere thanks to an entirely ginned up moral panic by Christopher Rufo, but have you gotten to hear s…
4 years, 8 months ago
SIO298: Is Life Pointless? More from the Journal of Controversial Ideas
with special guest Aaron Rabinowitz! You know him from Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space, but today he's here to philosophize at us. A pape…
4 years, 9 months ago
SIO297: New Atheists Didn't "Merge with the Far Right"
Perhaps some number of them did, but neither these atheist leaders, nor the movement as a whole "merged with the far right," as this Salon article s…
4 years, 9 months ago
SIO296: The Journal of Controversial Ideas
Recently, Jeff McMahan, Francesca Minerva and Peter Singer started a journal called The Journal of Controversial Ideas. In it, people can post racis…
4 years, 9 months ago