Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Hello everybody, welcome back to the Tom Wood Show this is episode

2412 and I'm delighted today to have the opportunity to speak to John

Staten who is professor of Meredith at Duke University from 1983.

He was the James B Duke Professor of Psychology and a Professor of Biology at Neurobiology. He's an editor of academic journals.

Well, maybe that might come up over the course of this particular conversation,

but I want to talk to him in particular about his quite recent book just last year,

science in an age of unreason.

And Dr. Statten, you wrote to me because I guess you'd heard my conversation

with Terrence Keeley on the subject of science and you said you had a bit to add to the conversation and did you ever

I Absolutely devoured this book of yours and I'm delighted have a chance to discuss it with you

Well, thank you so much, Tom.

I've admired your work for years.

First saw you were an early meess this meeting.

I can't even remember which one it was, probably the one with Jekyll Island.

How about that? how devilishly appropriate that setting was, indeed.

Yeah, indeed.

So I've written down so many things I want to talk to you about, the publication process, the multiplication of journals.

Definitely I want to get to all that.

I also want to talk about the social sciences a little bit.

I'm in history and sometimes that's classified as a social science.

...