Special Episode: Interview with Stuart Ritchie on Hunter Gatherers in the 21st Century, covid skeptics, and bad science

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

This week we have an engaging interview with the scientist, author, and public science communicator Stuart Ritchie. Stuart wrote the excellent 'Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science' and is a prolific advocate fr better science and more nuanced public discourse.

In this episode we start of by discussing Stuart's recently published review of Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's new book 'A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century'. Was Stuart a fan and is now an acolyte of Weinsteinian lineage theory? Tune in to find out.

Also, for those who enjoy 'challenging conversations', robust discourse, and regularly shop in the marketplace of ideas, there is an extended discussion on whether we have been a little bit too kind on the government and public health institutions. Stuart uses facts and logic and attempts to DESTROY us, so come and get your well earned vicarious catharsis but be prepared for plenty of postmodern deflection. We've learned from the best.

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0:00.0	You're going to. Head load welcome to the coding the Guru as the podcast for an anthropologist
0:18.8	and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try our best to understand what they're talking about.
0:24.8	I'm Matt Brown and with me is Chris Kavanaugh, has a go on Chris?
0:28.8	Ma'am, you're a professor.
0:30.4	Did you forget your important titles?
0:33.0	I mean, what's going on?
0:35.0	You're trying to keep it casual this week?
0:37.0	Yeah, playing it cool this week.
0:40.0	What the listeners can't see is that when Matt started this he had on
0:47.1	Holkogan-esque bandana and he's taking it off and now as like a dark brown kind of crazy professor hairstyles so maybe
0:57.0	just calling yourself a professor would be too much that's why you held off I guess.
1:02.4	Well I'm rather proud of my hair.
1:04.3	I'm growing it long and I'm hoping to achieve...
1:07.6	And vertical.
1:08.6	At vertical.
1:09.6	At the moment, thanks to the beanie I was wearing, but I'm hoping to achieve a Waidstinian mop. A Bufon.
1:17.6	That's all. That is a unique hairstyle that would, you know, that might be the hairstyle of the 21st century.
1:24.0	And do you do call Beanie's monkey hats?
1:28.4	Like do you know what a monkey hat is?
1:30.4	No, no, that's not a thing that's a northern Irish thing at least we call
1:37.2	them monkey hats so that's ridiculous I don't know why well is it my is it
1:42.4	any better than worse than Bini.
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