You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode number 50, little milestone, I suppose.

And I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, today's episode, which is normally commentary

slash voicemail, well, geez, despite the fact

that I have so many good voicemail to well, geez, despite the fact that I have so many good voicemails to go over,

this got preempted by an impromptu conversation with Michael Schurmer.

He once again, to his credit, reached out to me when someone tagged us on Twitter responding to something he

tweeted.

So that seems to be an effective way to get people's attention sometimes, so thanks to people who do that.

But anyway, he emailed me and the availability worked out so that we could have

this conversation now. I wanted to get it out so that it would be timely. I didn't want to shelf it,

and I have a great interview already for Monday.

So that's why it's happening today.

Michael Schurmer came on the show a few episodes back.

We had what I thought was a productive conversation.

And then, as people noted, he seemed to be changing his mind on that show, but then later

Twitter behavior kind of suggested, maybe, maybe not.

So we'll see how it goes this time.

And with that said, we're going to talk about the evergreen

situation and we're going to talk about the conceptual penis hoax on gender studies that of course

because that was originally published.

The article was originally published in Skeptic magazine,

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