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Welcome to the Quilat podcast. I'm Jonathan Kay.

One of the most talked about essays we've featured on the Quilat website this summer was titled,

Think Council Culture doesn't exist?

My own lived experience says otherwise.

The author, Colin Wright, is notable because he's not just a popular contributor

to Colette, he's our new managing editor. And he's not just a popular contributor to Quilett, he's our new managing editor, and he's also the

only Quilett editor with a PhD in evolutionary biology as it happens.

Colin's path from academic and scientist to editor, writer, and gender gadfly is an interesting one.

I spoke to him about it on this week's Colette Podcast, along with asking him a few questions about the way he got into science in the first place,

the challenge to science from pseudoscience pushed by both the left and the right,

and the reason why he refused to go in for activist claims that biological sex is a myth and that we all exist on some

kind of fuzzy man-woman spectrum.

I spoke to Colin by Skype earlier this week.

Here are excerpts from our conversation.

One thing readers learned from reading your piece is that when you were younger and

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