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July 28, 2021July 29, 2021

SIO304: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? Part 2: The Study So Bad It Made Quillette Look Good

Continuing from the last episode, Lindsey backs up her claim that the bulk of the terrible science was yet to come. WOW. This study was complete garbage. You really ought to hear how terrible it is. Lindsey, as usual, did other people’s homework for them. She got a hold of some of the data and did her own work with it, which revealed some interesting stuff. Here is the doc.

Links: the study, the article, Moss & O’Connor (2020b; origin of White Identitarianism Scale), Pew Poll, Political Polarization in the American Public, Master’s thesis (origin of the PC scales)

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July 21, 2021July 22, 2021

SIO303: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? AKA Debunking a Garbage Quillette Article About a Garbage Study

Holy both sides, Batman! Yeah no suspense on this one, Quillette is garbage and the study this article references is garbage. But how garbage and why exactly? Is there any truth to it? As usual, Lindsey is here to give us the breakdown! This is a part 1. In order to grab part 2 early, make sure to pledge on patreon!

Links: Moss & O’Connor (2020b; origin of White Identitarianism Scale), Pew Poll, Political Polarization in the American Public, Master’s thesis (origin of the PC scales)

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July 14, 2021July 15, 2021

SIO302: Are Boomers Narcissistic? Are Millennials Entitled? What a Large Narcissism Study Does and Doesn’t Tell Us

This episode was inspired by this Insider article, Baby Boomers Are More Sensitive Than Millennials. Science is often butchered by the media, so I sent it along to our own Dr. Lindsey Osterman to see if the study backs up the article. As it turns out… not really. But it does say some interesting things. Listen in and find out!

Wetzel and colleagues (2017), The Narcissism Epidemic is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic

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July 8, 2021July 8, 2021

SIO301: Evidence Based Mental Healthcare, with Dr. Caleb Lack

Today Lindsey and I are joined by Dr. Caleb Lack. Caleb is a full professor of psychology at the University of Central Oklahoma, and he’s here to talk about evidence based mental healthcare. When it comes to treatment, what is actually evidence based and what is unsupported at best and pseudoscience at worst? Also, find out how Caleb trolled a predatory academic journal!

Check out Caleb’s book, Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience.

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June 30, 2021July 1, 2021

SIO300: June Patreon QnA!

It’s episode 300! And also the June patreon QnA! Topics covered include: moral panics – does the left engage in them too? Syria and an old SIO guest. Are we close to full institutional breakdown? How f*cked are we in 2022 and 2024? Who would we root for in a war against America? Christian socialists, critical race theory, people on the left wanting to lift mask mandates. And, what episodes are good for reachable right wing people?

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June 26, 2021June 27, 2021

SIO299: Debunking CRT Attacks with Dr. Ery Shin

You’ve seen Critical Race Theory discussed everywhere thanks to an entirely ginned up moral panic by Christopher Rufo, but have you gotten to hear someone who actually teaches it talk about what it’s really about? If not, I hope you’ll listen as Dr. Ery Shin takes us through some basics, and also answers a few anti-CRT talking points from James Lindsay’s Christian Nationalist funded New Discourses.

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June 15, 2021June 15, 2021

SIO298: Is Life Pointless? More from the Journal of Controversial Ideas

with special guest Aaron Rabinowitz! You know him from Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space, but today he’s here to philosophize at us. A paper on pointlessness was published in the first issue of the Journal of Controversial ideas. How good is it? How controversial? Find out!

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June 9, 2021June 10, 2021

SIO297: New Atheists Didn’t “Merge with the Far Right”

Perhaps some number of them did, but neither these atheist leaders, nor the movement as a whole “merged with the far right,” as this Salon article says. I suppose it may seem like a minor point to some, but I think it’s pretty significantly journalistically irresponsible to have a headline as explosive as that, with the picture like that, and not have it be supported by the article.

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June 2, 2021June 3, 2021