We lost one of the good ones. It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

He hasn't died. He's resigned.

Joe, explain to people who Peter Bogosian is.

He's a professor at Portland State University. Is that right?

Was?

Was.

Which is the key to this podcast?

And he is one of the trio of folks, including Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, you put out those faux social science papers that many of which were published that were

hilariously ridiculously ridiculous, but they were indistinguishable from real social science research and

papers, trying to make it clear that that field is rife with bullshit in a word.

Yeah, yeah.

And a lot of the wokeness that's going on in the world was being fought by those people, including Peter Begotian,

who up until today worked for Portland State University. He has resigned. And a number of

people said, you've got to read his resignation letter. So let's do it. Peter Bogosian has taught

philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade. In the letter below, sent this

morning to the university's provost, he explains why he's resigning. And here it goes. Dear Provost,

Susan Jeffords, I am writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland

State University. Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My

specialties are critical thinking,

ethics, and the Socratic method, and I teach classes like science and pseudoscience and the philosophy education. But in addition to exploring classic philosophers and traditional

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