For the Sake of Argument

For the Sake of Argument

By Jake NewfieldSociety & Culture
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For the Sake of Argument episodes

  • #41: Dom D'Agostino: Ketogenic Diet Health Benefits

    Dominic (Dom) D'Agostino is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida. He is also a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

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    45 min
  • #40: Peter Singer: Israel vs Palestine and Speciesism Debate

    Peter Singer is dubbed the “the world’s most influential living philosopher” by The New Yorker and has written, co-authored, edited, or co-edited more than 50 books.

    Peter Singer is a renowned moral philosopher and an esteemed Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Yesterday, May 6th, Peter Singer received Princeton University’s 48th annual Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
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    44 min
  • #39: Gary Taubes: Dangers of Ozempic & Refuting Peter Attia

    Gary Taubes and I discuss the dangers of ozempic and also why he disagrees with Peter Attia.

    Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of Rethinking Diabetes (2024), The Case Against Sugar (2016)
    00:00 - Introductions
    00:01 - Diabetes, Insulin
    10:35 - Low Carb Diets
    14:35 - Low Fat Diet
    15:20 - Risks of Ozempic
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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield

    1 hr 6 min
  • #38: Dan Carlin (Audio-Only)

    Dan Carlin is the host of 3 very successful podcasts: Hardcore History, Hardcore History: Addendum, and Common Sense, for which he received recognitions and awards, including best educational and history podcasts, and ranking among the best podcasts of all time.


    In this episode, Dan discusses WHY he prefers audio-only, and HOW he tells such great stories.


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    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-sake-of-argument/id1567749546
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield


    47 min
  • #37: Lawrence Krauss: The Multiverse, Cosmos, and Free Speech

    Lawrence Krauss is a world-renowned theoretical physicist, commentator, bestselling author, President of The Origins Project Foundation and host of the Origins Podcast.

    Among his numerous important scientific contributions was his proposal, in 1995, that most of the energy of the Universe resided in empty space. 



    37 min
  • #36: Avi Loeb: God, Aliens, AI

    Avi Loeb is a Harvard University Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics. Loeb is the Head of the Galileo Project, and he previously chaired the Department of Astronomy and founded the Black Hole Initiative.


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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield

    1 hr 8 min
  • #35: Jonathan Zimmerman Debate on Israel Palestine, Free Speech, and Columbia University Protests

    Jonathan Zimmerman is a Professor of History and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Jonathan has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. In this episode we debate Israel-Palestine, Free Speech, and the Columbia University protests.

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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield

    42 min
  • #34: John Vervaeke: Meaning, Religion, Consciousness

    John Vervaeke, PhD, is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is an associate professor and award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto, teaching in the Department of Psychology. His work focuses on human intelligence, rationality, wisdom, and AI.

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    1 hr 12 min
  • #33: Jeremi Suri: Iran & Israel, Civil War, Democracy

    Professor Jeremi Suri is a historian and the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Jeremi is the author of Civil War by Other Means and The Impossible Presidency.

    YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jakenewfield

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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield

    1 hr
  • #32: Nathan Robinson discusses Israel vs Palestine

    Nathan Robinson is Chief Editor of the Current Affairs magazine, which he founded in 2015. Nathan got his JD from Yale and PhD from Harvard, and has authored over a dozen books including Trump: Anatomy of a Monstrosity.

    In this episode, Nathan explains the differing viewpoints of Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris.


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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield

    43 min

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