You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking This is episode 280. Nice round number and I'm

your host Thomas Smith. All right got an interesting one for you today. I think a lot

of you no doubt have heard that Dr. Richard carrier, someone who I've had on the show before,

someone who is actually going to get on the show to talk about Jesus mythicism, but now it doesn't look like that would really be appropriate.

We'll see he's going through some legal battles.

He has sued several people for defamation. Now I don't really want to

get into the details of this but just so that everybody's on the same page

I'm going to read Peezy Meyers's small post on very short a couple

paragraphs. One of our writers Richard Carrier has been banned from Skepticon

for his repeated boundary pushing behavior. This is obviously a serious

accusation and we've been investigating further. We now have several firsthand reports of

persistent obnoxious sexual behavior in defiance of specific requests that he cease.

We believe his accusers.

Again, I'm just reading PZ Myers post here on Ferengula, I will link it.

Here at Freethop blogs, we are sex positive,

but we are also committed to the principle of consensual sexual behavior.

We go further and beyond demanding that there always be consent.

We also insist on respect for your partners, no means no, not just because it's held as a

dogmatic rule, but because it reflects a sincere appreciation of the autonomy of other people,

we cannot tolerate violations of this essential principle.

While Dr. Carrier has been a valued contributor to this network,

we have to demand support of that principle in actions as well as words.

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