Welcome to the Quillett Podcast. I'm your host Jonathan Kay, a senior editor at Quillett.

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articles and early access to Colette social events. And this week we'll be

looking at some clips from my interview with Quilett contributor Lawrence Krause, who recently had

me as a guest on his The Origins podcast.

In that forthcoming episode, Lawrence asked me about a million things. We actually spoke for more than three hours, but the main subject, which ended up occupying the last half hour of our conversation, was the big investigative piece I wrote last month for Quillett under the title

McMaster's imaginary sex rate and a follow-up article which apparently Lawrence

like more called Lessons from an Academic Social Panic.

In those articles I wrote about the series of false allegations made in 2020

against members of the Psychology Department at McMaster University in Hamilton,

which is a city just west of Toronto here in Canada.

To summarize, two women made bombshell claims that academics in the psych department were running a Jeffrey Epstein-style sex ring.

The whole story turned out to be based on extremely dubious, so-called recovered memories,

and there were plenty of warning signs that the story made no

sense. But the university still dragged the reputations of numerous scholars through

the mud while wasting millions of dollars in the process on lawyers and investigators, all the while claiming

that they had to give credence to the far-fetched accusations because they were following a quote-unquote trauma-informed

process.

You can learn more by reading these articles or by listening to Lawrence Kraus asking

about them in the interview that follows.

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