The Tom Woods Show, episode 830.

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here. Steve Patterson is back on the show again. Steve is the host of the podcast Patterson in

pursuit, a podcast that has taken him, well, practically to the ends of the earth, in search of answers to very important questions.

I'll have Steve talk about his podcast a little bit later.

I know some of you have started to listen to it.

It's always very interesting.

And Steve has recently released a book called Square One, The Foundations of Knowledge.

And I want to talk to him because of a little bit of controversy that's developed because he self-published that book, and he did so on purpose because of his view of academia, the relatively low regard in which he holds a lot of academics,

probably justly. And so he went ahead and published his book. And there are people saying to him,

oh, well, that must be because you're some kind of crackpot or you couldn't get your book published

the traditional way. And I thought we ought to hash that out, because there is this prevailing view that anything that's worth anything has to go through an academic

publication process. And yet a lot of stuff that goes through that process is completely

inane. So it's certainly no guarantee that you're going to get something that's good.

And there's plenty of stuff that's good that's done outside of academia.

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