E192. Colin Wright Is Dying On The Stupidest Hill In The World

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist and Founding Editor of Reality's Last Stand, a publication and newsletter exploring the biology of sex and gender ideology. In grad school he started noticing a lot of ideas about biological sex going heywire, in 2018 he wrote an article for Quillette called The New Evolution Deniers, and people went mad. He and Bridget discuss the fact that if we can't agree that sex is a biological reality we're all screwed, the reaction Colin's colleagues had to his articles, why people in academia are so scared, and the student activists who were trying to get him cancelled. They also cover Colin's recent bans from Etsy and Paypal for no clear reason, losing friends, losing jobs, being called a bigot, how he deals with it all from a mental health perspective, and what this all means for the rest of us, particularly, how powerless you are when financial institutions decide to just unperson you, the risks and rewards of going independent, and why it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

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1:29.0	This week on the podcast, we welcome Colin Wright. Colin is an evolutionary biologist and founding editor of Reality's Last Stand, a publication and newsletter exploring the biology of sex and gender ideology.
1:42.0	He is a contributing editor for Quillette and an academic advisor for the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine.
1:49.0	Colin has published articles in popular news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Quillette, and The Times and has been a guest on the Joe Rogan experience.
1:59.0	Colin and I had a terrifying and amazing conversation and I hope you all enjoy it.
2:04.0	I'm with Colin Wright. Everybody, welcome to Watkins. Welcome. Thank you for coming.
2:09.0	Hey, I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks. It's been a while. I've always wanted to be on.
2:13.0	I feel like we're way overdue to have this conversation, but whenever that happens, they happen exactly when they should.
2:20.0	I would love for you to just explain a little bit about who you are and your background before we kind of get into things and why I'm really interested in talking to you specifically this week.
2:34.0	Yeah, so it's hard to know always where to start, but the reader's digest version I suppose would be.
2:41.0	I am a former academic so up until 2020 I was an academic scientist and an evolutionary biologist.
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