SIO296: The Journal of Controversial Ideas
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Recently, Jeff McMahan, Francesca Minerva and Peter Singer started a journal called The Journal of Controversial Ideas. In it, people can post racist transphobic stuff that is TOO controversial for other journals! (except that it totally isn't.) Lindsey and I give some background, and do a fair bit of yelling about the race science paper published in the first issue of the journal.
Links: "Who Is The Victim In The Anna Stubblefield Case?", "Gender Muddle: Reply to Dembroff", "Cognitive Creationism Compared to Young-Earth Creationism", Holly Dunsworth's essay, VBW on IQ & Race, pt 1 https://www.verybadwizards.com/122 and pt 2 https://www.verybadwizards.com/123
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to? Serious inquiries only. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only this is episode 296 and I got it's too bad |
| 0:35.2 | We're not doing this in October, you know, because this is a real spooktacular |
| 0:39.8 | Episode Lindsay. It's true. Dr. Lindsay Astraman is here. How you doing? Oh fantastic. Couldn't be better. Are you fantastic or are you spooked? |
| 0:47.5 | I am I am terrified. Are you squaking in your boots so many dangerous ideas to talk about dangerous ideas controversial ideas? |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, I keep calling it. Trigger warning lips. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, I keep calling it the journal of dangerous ideas, but no that's that's better than my notes that every time I couldn't remember the specific wording |
| 1:09.0 | So I was just like the journal of dumb shit idea like I just get more and more like vulgar and stupid about it |
| 1:13.8 | Journal of dumbass right wing stupid race science ideas basically. Yeah |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, I've got the journal of bad and poorly supported and vetted ideas. Yeah, like that's where I started |
| 1:23.4 | I was like, oh journal of bad ideas, you know, and then as I kept typing it over and over and different things |
| 1:27.6 | I just got more and more mad at it |
| 1:30.7 | That would be a fun game to play with some of the actual specific articles in this journal, I think |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah, you know, we should come back to that. Oh, so what are we talking about? This is it actually is called the journal of controversial ideas |
| 1:42.9 | This isn't a thing |
| 1:45.0 | This idea is a controversial idea having the journal in itself is what was started by |
| 1:50.9 | Jeff McMahon friend Cheska Minerva and Peter Singer |
| 1:54.5 | Sure, almost every listener knows Peter Singer. He's been referenced on the show |
| 1:59.3 | He's definitely somebody who |
| 2:01.5 | Atheus and this is still largely I think an atheist skeptic circle type show and he he definitely makes the rounds in those circles |
| 2:08.7 | But I wasn't familiar with the other two people and don't worry. We're gonna get to that wasn't either |
| 2:13.5 | Super hero or super villain origin story, whichever you you think it is |
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