Supplementary Material 54: Solarpunk Pecan Pie, Northern Irish Sushi, & the Discourse Meat Grinder

We return from our holidays with an indulgent episode that starts light and ends up very dark as we turn to the unavoidable Jason Arday discourse.

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Supplementary Material 54

00:00 Pecan Pie Introduction

04:10 Solar Punk Matt

08:17 Ireland Trip Report

15:24 Australian Burger Culture

17:32 Manga Cafe Experiments

24:10 Joe Rogan on AI Remote Viewing

29:14 Parapsychology as a Research Field

34:07 A One Man University Level Course in Bad Thinking

36:58 The Young Info Turks

40:53 More Credulity with Ryan Grim over Fauci

42:14 Richard Ebright, Warning Signs, and Radicalisation Spirals

48:28 Vinay Prasad jumping on the Anti-Fauci wagon for the Free Press

52:31 The Jason Arday Affair

54:28 The Surrounding Context

58:18 Polemical Discourse Waves

01:05:22 The Guru Factor

01:08:25 A Realistic View of Universities as Imperfect Institutions

01:12:17 Elite Prestige Bias

01:21:33 Culture War Distortions

01:25:04 The Ethics of Critical Journalism

01:29:50 Inconsistent Standards

01:38:36 Outro

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