EV - 211 Applied Effective Altruism with Alex Arnett

My guest this week is Alex Arnett, a longtime friend of the show who recently did some serious applied effective altruism. We discuss his experience.

Live Kidney Donations: https://www.kidneyregistry.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwNWKBhDAARIsAJ8Hkhd-35ozChkW5Wcq_ybNfyO63FsaExgbta4OoiFSrNonLwettyE011kaAgg4EALw_wcB

Convocation: William McCaskill 

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Next week: Warspeak with Michael Grenke

EV - 210 Naturalness with Alan Levinovitz Pt2

My guest this week is Alan Levinovitz (@AlanLevinovitz), a professor of religion and science at James Madison University and the author of Natural: How Faith in Nature’s goodness leads to harmful fads, unjust laws, and flawed science. We discuss the role of naturalness in our political debates.

Alan's Website: https://www.alanlevinovitz.com/

Convocation: John Burroughs

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EV - 209 Naturalness with Alan Levinovitz Pt1

My guest this week is Alan Levinovitz (@AlanLevinovitz), a professor of religion and science at James Madison University and the author of Natural: How Faith in Nature’s goodness leads to harmful fads, unjust laws, and flawed science. We discuss the concept of "natural", when it might be useful and how it can cause harm.

Alan's Website: https://www.alanlevinovitz.com/

Convocation: Mark Edwards

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Next week: Naturalness with Alan Levinovitz Pt.2

EV - 208 White Christian Nationalism with Philip Gorski

My guest this week is Philip Gorski (@GorskiPhilip), a professor of sociology at Yale and co-author of the forthcoming book The Flag and the Cross. We discuss white christian nationalism, why the white part really matters, and what this growing problem means in American Politics?

Philip's website: https://www.philipgorski.com/

Convocation: The Empty Man

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Next week: Naturalness with Alan Levinovitz Pt.1

EV - 207 Qanon After Q with Travis View

My guest this week is Travis View (@travis_view), co-host of the Qanon Anonymous Podcast. We discuss conspiracism tracking, epistemic poverty tourism, and what comes next for Qanon Anonymous now that Q has gone silent.

Qanon Anonymous: https://www.qanonanonymous.com/

Convocation: Luke 8.17

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Next week: White Christian Nationalism with Philip Gorski

EV - 206 Longtermism with Tyler John

My guest this week is Tyler John (@tyler_m_john), head of research at Longview Philanthropy. We discuss Effective Altruism and in particular Longtermism as an approach to ethics.

Tyler's Website: https://tmjohn.wixsite.com/tylermjohn

Convocation: Fight Club

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Next week: Qanon after Q with Travis View

EV - 205 Pseudoscience Conspiracism with Melanie Trecek-King

My guest this week is Melanie Trecek-King (@Thinkingpowers), a teacher at a community college who teaches a course on distinguishing between science, non-science, bad science, and pseudoscience. She also developed a website devoted to same issues called Thinking is Power. We discuss the challenges of pedagogy in the post truth world and how to help students learn how to think vs. what to think.

Melanie's website: https://thinkingispower.com/

Convocation: Void Original

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Next week: Longtermism with Tyler John

EV - 204 The Immoral Non-Believer Stereotype with Will Gervais

My guest this week is Will Gervais, (@wgervais), an assistant professor of social psychology and senior lecturer at the center for culture and evolution at Brunel University London. We discuss his work studying the persistent stereotype that non-believers are less morally reliable and how this stereotype plays a role in the continued marginalization of non-believers.

Will Gervais: http://willgervais.com/

Convocation: Mehmet Murat ildan

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Next week: Pseudoscience Pedagogy with Melanie Trecek-King

EV - 203 Denialism with Mark Hoofnagel

My guest this week is Mark Hoofnagel, (@MarkHoofnagle), a surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at Wash U, as well as a skeptic activist. We discuss his work on the problem of denialism and how we're seeing that problem run rampant in our political and media landscapes.

Mark's Website: https://surgery.wustl.edu/people/mark-hoofnagle/

Convocation: Shunya

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Next week: Marginalized Nonbelievers with Will Gervais

EV - 202 Law of Identity Politics with Corvus

My guest this week is Corvus (@CorvusCoraxPC), host of the Corvus Corax podcast. We discuss the law of identity and the somewhat surprising roles it plays in political discourse.

Corvus podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3xHSnWZ-Y1kahvfe5MPBIw?view_as=subscriber

Convocation: Jhumpa Lahiri

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Next week: Epistemic Crisis with Mark Hoofnagle

EV - 201 Defining Racism with Nathan Alexander

My guest this week is Nathan Alexander (@NathGAlexander), a historian of racism and atheism and co-host of the Beyond Atheism podcast. We discuss the history of the term 'racism' and the role it's played in American politics.

Nathan's Website: https://www.nathangalexander.com/

Arcdigi article: https://www.arcdigital.media/p/confronting-the-moral-panic-over

Convocation: Alan Moore

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EV - 200 Education PhD Year One with Aaron Rabinowitz

This week I mark the 200th episode with an autoethnography of my first year in the Rutgers Graduate School of Education PhD program. I thought this might be helpful for folks who want to hear a less sensationalist approach to CRT in education.

Convocation: Aaron' overeducated mind

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Next week: Conspiracism with Nathan Alexander

EV - 199 Veteran Voidiness with Alex and Jim

My guests this week are Alex and Jim, hosts of the Pillow Scream Radio podcast (@PillowScreamPod). We discuss their experiences as veterans and the The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Ligotti.

Convocation: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Ligotti

Pillow Scream Radio pod: https://anchor.fm/pillowscreamradio

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Next week: Education PHD Year One

EV - 198 Moral Panics with Cathy Young pt.2

My guest this week is Cathy Young (@CathyYoung63), a writer who has published at ArcDigi, Reason, Atlantic, Newsday, Bulkwark, the week, and Quillette and many more. We discuss moral panics and their role in current political ecosystems.

Convocation: Stanley Cohen

French bar story: https://www.bondyblog.fr/societe/bar-pmu-de-sevran-la-contre-enquete-du-bondy-blog/

Gender affirmation therapy studies: https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/205157368_547217792951511_6760723772117657686_n.pdf/Bustos-et-al-Transition-regret-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis.pdf?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0cab14&_nc_ohc=DcPhLYHQIugAX9RdjMx&_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&oh=f165e29792f038d0fff5500baa37ed61&oe=60D30F32&dl=1

https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/117801259_331614664863582_3972825502803736734_n.pdf/Wiepjes-et-al-Cohort-study-of-transition-regret.pdf?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0cab14&_nc_ohc=pRYHNKD9QM8AX-HLJ4B&_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&oh=4e1cf02c015ba78c74b893b6394204eb&oe=60D32F80&dl=1

https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/90784695_511439389806755_5728455164101132288_n.pdf/Turban-Ehrensaft-2018-Research-review-gender-identity-in-youth-treatment-paradigms-and-controversies.pdf?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0cab14&_nc_ohc=VGofYdwN0KQAX_3pJhc&_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&oh=30816ec62201f6759fac7d2dd36b5df2&oe=60D2AA6B&dl=1

Genital Preference article: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/ask-trans-women-about-their-genitals-while-dating.html

Trans prisoners article: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-women-are-nearly-always-incarcerated-men-s-putting-many-n1142436?fbclid=IwAR15qg7X1OIo_PnkSkU_lg4Xi9ygixKHKQTOGaChhJ0epGPhQz_gkkzQyQg

Viral Racist Videos: https://medium.com/arc-digital/viral-racist-videos-gone-wild-b8f51aaee947

Tim Hunt cancelation story: https://reason.com/2015/07/23/sexist-scientist-tim-hunt-the-real-story/

Mckenna College woke backlash: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pc-police-tearing-apart-californias-claremont-mckenna-college?ref=scroll

IDW article: https://quillette.com/2019/05/24/how-the-idw-can-avoid-the-tribalist-pull/

Immigration article: https://quillette.com/2017/07/09/trumps-warsaw-speech-defending-west-defending-illiberalism/

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Next week: Veteran Voidiness with Pillow Scream Radio

EV - 197 Moral Panics with Cathy Young

My guest this week is Cathy Young (@CathyYoung63), a writer who has published at ArcDigi, Reason, Atlantic, Newsday, Bulkwark, the week, and Quillette and many more. We discuss moral panics and their role in current political ecosystems.

Convocation: Michael Rectenwald, Springtime for Snowflakes

IDW article: https://quillette.com/2019/05/24/how-the-idw-can-avoid-the-tribalist-pull/

Immigration article: https://quillette.com/2017/07/09/trumps-warsaw-speech-defending-west-defending-illiberalism/

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Next week: Moral Panics with Cathy Young Pt.2

EV - 196 Conspiracism with Scott Tyson

My guest this week is Scott Tyson (@scottatyson), an assistant professor in political science at the University of Rochester. We discuss conspiracism and its role in American politics.

Convocation: Aaron's fever dreams

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Next week: Culture War Catastrophizing with Cathy Young

EV - 195 Evolutionary Psych-Comm with Lindsey Osterman

My guest this week is Lindsey Osterman, associate professor of psychology at Roanoke college and cohost of Serious Inquiries Only, we’re on the same page, what the fup:downloads from the secrete ghost library. We discuss evolutionary psychology, trans issues, and sci-comm more broadly.

Convocation: D.T. Max

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Next week: Teaching about Conspiracies with Scott Tyson

EV - 194 Motivated free will beliefs with Cory Clark

My guest this week is Cory Clark (@ImHardcory), a visiting scholar in social psychology at University of Pennsylvania and cohost of Psyphilopod. We discuss her work studying belief in free will across political groups and its relationship to the desire to assign moral responsibility.

Convocation: Ann Radcliffe - "A Sicilian Romance"

Cory's Website: https://www.coryjclark.com/

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Next week: Internet sci-comm with Lindsey Osterman

EV - 193 Bullshido with Phrost

My guest this week is Phrost (@Phrost), founder of the Bullshido website for debates among martial artists. We discuss his approaches to debating guys with fragile masculinity issues.

Convocation: Fight Club

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Next week: Motivated free will belief with Cory Clark

EV - 192 Social Economy and Agency with Lillian Cicerchia

My guest this week is Lillian Cicerchia (@LILCICERCH), a postdoc in social philosophy at Free university of Berlin and cohost of What’s left of philosophy pod. We discuss her work on social economy and she helps me parse the relationship between agency talk in theory work and free will talk in analytic philosophy.

Convocation: A Scanner Darkly postscript

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Next week: Bullshido with Phrost