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Pod Damn America

(PREVIEW) Andrew Sullivan

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Anders tells us about the career of popular race science guy Andrew Sullivan and we discuss his stupid ideas that are unfortunately very popular. I fucking hate science. FULL EPISODE AT Patreon.com/PodDamnAmerica

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0:00.0

And so the thing that that really relates to today is the issue of race science.

0:11.7

And you may have heard of race.

0:14.4

And you may have heard of science.

0:16.6

When they get together, hold on to your hats.

0:19.6

Yeah, no, it's no good.

0:20.9

Both things are very fine on their own.

0:24.1

Yes, but the beaker, yes, they should keep in individual beakers.

0:29.4

When you pour them into a third one, that it's Mentos and Coke, baby.

0:34.1

It's exposed.

0:34.4

Two great tastes that should not be mixed.

0:40.0

And this is while he is in the early 90s, he's running hit pieces on Hillary Care.

0:47.0

And not to say that was a great proposal, but does not disclose that the research is funded by Philip Morris because they're going to pay for Hillary Care by raising tobacco taxes.

1:02.9

So he's just doing this sort of, you know, in his mind he's keeping America in the political system from veering too far in a utopian direction, you know,

1:13.6

where people have slightly less bankruptcies for getting health care.

1:19.8

But in 94, he makes a pretty monumental decision as editor of the New Republic,

1:30.4

and that is to air the views at great length of one Charles Murray and his co-author,

1:41.5

Richard Hernstein, who have just written a book

1:44.5

that you

1:46.0

may have

1:46.3

heard of

1:46.8

called the

1:48.3

bell curve.

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