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Jun 2024
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Supplementary Materials 8: Lab Leak Disc...

CHRISTOPHER KAVANAGH AND MATTHEW BROWNE
About this episode

We stare into the abyss and welcome darkness into our souls as we discuss:

  • Feedback on the Žižek episode
  • Middle Aged Men's Health Update
  • Alina Chan and the newest round of Lab Leak Discourse
  • Discourse Surfing Pundits
  • Alex O'Connor cornering Jordan Peterson on the resurrection
  • The philosophical and Marxist implications of Peppa Pig
  • Potential Alternatives to Hipster Christianity and New Atheism
  • Andrew Gold's Heretics Channel and Toxic YouTube Dynamics
  • Editorializing and Responsible Criticism
  • Balaji Srinivasan's Waffling Defence of Huberman
  • The 'Elite Defector' Pose
  • Verbal Fluency vs. Substance
  • Heterodox and Anti-Vaxx Incentive Structures
  • James Lindsay's most recent idiocy
  • Desperate Call to Action

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