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SIO393: Dr. Alan Smerbeck on Trigger Warnings

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stormy's back! Dr. Smerbeck joins us today to discuss the current research around trigger warnings. Are they a no-brainer or are there downsides? If there are, are we going anti-woke and telling triggered snowflakes they need to be able to handle different ideas? Or is that still dumb?
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Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Hello and welcome to Series Inc.

0:15.0

Only this is episode 393. I'm your host Thomas Smith and today we've got an interesting look at the science of

0:25.2

trigger warnings with none other than Dr. Alan Smurbeck aka Stormy Desizes and

0:30.1

I'll tell you this is a, this is a nuanced conversation.

0:32.8

I think that wherever you land on trigger warnings, this conversation gives you a lot to think about

0:37.8

and perhaps some data to work with.

0:40.6

So excited to get on over to that conversation.

0:42.8

Before I do a couple little things, for one,

0:45.0

so many good reasons to join Patreon.com slash serious pod.

0:47.6

We've got the hangout.

0:48.8

We've got people who have signed up for games.

0:50.8

Lydia and I will be doing a live hang out.

0:52.6

That's Zoom, so that's like we're hanging out.

0:55.2

For top patrons, we get to play games afterwards.

0:57.7

We've got, I think we've already got enough sign up,

0:59.4

so that's for sure happening.

1:00.8

Code names coming at you, can't't wait and that is October 26th

1:04.6

3 p.m. Pacific 6 p.m. Eastern for the essentially the top two levels of

1:09.5

Patreon so for either show so get on that if you'd like to join.

1:12.8

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

1:13.6

So much to talk about behind the scene stuff.

1:16.0

It's a hang, it's Lydia and I, there's games.

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