SIO176: Eli Bosnick on the Trial of Peter Boghossian
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
There has been another chapter in the ongoing saga of classical liberal types seeking to prove that entire fields of academia are bogus. They allegedly do so by publishing a handful of fake studies and papers in a few different academic journals, mostly in the field of gender studies. Due to the fact that these hoaxes have utilized fake data, wasted tons of innocent people's time, and possibly constituted human experimentation, Peter Boghossian has come under a totally reasonable investigation. This hasn't stopped the usual IDW types from reacting as though Boghossian is awaiting public execution. Eli, who broke down the original hoax expertly in SIO44, is back to provide an informed and hilarious breakdown of the whole thing!
Twitter thread on datasets; letter from PSU faculty; excellent Slate article.
Here are Eli's notes and links that I am publishing in a clear violation of his copyright:
Singal article; hey wait don't I remember that Jesse Signal Guy from somewhere; Turning points USA is terrifying; here's their professor watchlist; Go down the rabbit hole of highly funded crazy; They are coming for Peter's Vital Fluids Video Source; Digilante; hey speaking of crazy shit boghossian has said; Hey look more people with brains
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode. I'm your host Thomas Smith and I am so happy to bring you Eli Bosnick back on the show for the first time in quite a while. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm sure you're just as excited as I am and we should get right over to it. |
| 0:45.4 | I'll just say that if you want some more background on what we're going to talk about, |
| 0:49.4 | this is the conceptual penis hoax paper 2.0 controversy that Eli did an excellent job of |
| 0:57.5 | breaking down on this show that was episode 45 of this show so if you if you feel like if you got the time or maybe |
| 1:04.9 | you weren't around then or something listening to the show, if you want to |
| 1:09.0 | check out episode 45 first that'll give you a lot more context if not we do try to summarize for you |
| 1:15.3 | kind of what the history of this for for a little bit of the interview here but |
| 1:20.0 | with that said let's get on over to it. |
| 1:22.8 | No further delay. |
| 1:24.2 | Here is Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:25.6 | Eli Bosnick, welcome back. |
| 1:35.0 | Oh my God, it's been a decade. |
| 1:38.5 | Thomas, I've missed you. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm back from the mountains where I've been meditating, hiding, high high up in the Alps. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm here to talk about our favorite subject. |
| 1:51.0 | Right-wing people in our community owning themselves as hard as they physically can. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, now I'm, uh, are you skiping in the mythis this guys or am I? Is that... |
| 2:02.0 | I think we decide, we going to add them later. |
| 2:04.4 | Guys, Special Tree, we didn't announce this. Hitler will be joining us to give his opinions |
| 2:09.4 | on the Jews a little bit later. We will be giving him fair air time. It's important. |
| 2:15.0 | Both sides. But in series this, it has been a minute. I don't know why, but I'm so glad you're back and this is great because one of the |
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