My guest this week is Melanie Trecek-King (@Thinkingpowers), a teacher at a community college who teaches a course on distinguishing between science, non-science, bad science, and pseudoscience. She also developed a website devoted to same issues called Thinking is Power. We discuss the challenges of pedagogy in the post truth world and how to help students learn how to think vs. what to think.
Melanie's website: https://thinkingispower.com/
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EV - 205 Pseudoscience Conspiracism with Melanie Trecek-King

Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever enough to do anything about it. The void seems terrible and cruel, but it loves you, in its own ironic way.

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My guest this week is Callie Wright, cohost of the Philosophers in Space podcast and the only person I want to be parsing bear discourse with. We discuss the recent dust up around the hypothetical "would you prefer to encounter a man or a bear in the woods". We discuss why people are having such different responses on the hypothetical and whether this is a particularly cursed discourse, or just normal level cursed discourse. Enjoy!

Man or Bear Know Your Meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/man-or-bear-in-the-woods-question

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Next Episode: Religious belief with RJ

Man Bear Discourse with Callie Wright

My guest this week is Anthony Magnabosco, co-founder of Street Epistemology International. Street Epistemology is an approach to difficult dialogue aimed at helping individuals better understand why they believe what they believe. Anthony and co recently released a website called Navigating Beliefs, an easy way to learn how to do Street Epistemology. We discuss the evidence for the effectiveness of Street Epistemology, ongoing research on its effects, and concerns with the approach.

Street Epistemology International: https://streetepistemology.com/sei

Navigating Beliefs: https://www.navigatingbeliefs.com/

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Street Epistemology with Anthony Magnabosco

My guest this week is Gil Morejón, a historian of ideas currently teaching at Grenell college, one of the 4 amazing hosts of the What’s Left of Philosophy? Podcast. We discuss leftist takes on meritocracy, possible alternatives, and the differences between doing politics and ethics. Enjoy!

What's Left of Philosophy: https://www.leftofphilosophy.com/

Gil's Website: https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/about/

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Next Episode: Street Epistemology International with Anthony Magnabosco

What's Left of Meritocracy with Gil Morejón

My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh, cohost of Decoding the Gurus and a cognitive anthropologist working at the psychology department at Rikkyo university in Japan. I have him on to discuss a recent episode of theirs about metaethics and debate the case for moral realism. Plus we talk about their recent free will episode in the VIP segment. Enjoy!

Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

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Next Episode: What's Left of Meritocracy with Gil Morejon.

Debating Moral Realism with Chris Kavanagh

My guest this week is Megan Pike, director of Camp Omni, formerly Camp West. Megan is a lifetime educator and camp participant. We discuss Camp Omni's developing focus and how the camping world in general is adapting, as well as some pedagogical nerdery. Enjoy!

Camp Omni: https://www.campomni.org/

Music by GW Rodriguez

The Paradox of Secularism: https://nyupress.org/9781479809523/the-secular-paradox/

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EV - 205 Pseudoscience Conspiracism with Melanie Trecek-King

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