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  • Episode 019




    Evaluating The Claim: Does the Whale Pelvis Support Intelligent Design? & The UFO Paradox
    Recorded on 08 Dec 2019: Topics Evaluating the Claim: Does the Whale Pelvis Support Intelligent Design?, The UFO Paradox
    Segment 1: Evaluating the Claim: Does the Whale Pelvis Support Intelligent Design?

    * Is the Whale Pelvis a Vestige of Evolution?, Fazale Rana, Reasons to Believe, 17 Nov 2014
    https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2014/11/18/is-the-whale-pelvis-a-vestige-of-evolution
    * Fazale Rana, Vice President of Research & Apologetics, Reasons to Believe
    https://www.reasons.org/about/fazale-rana
    * Sexual selection targets cetacean pelvic bones, JP Dines et al, Evolution. 2014;68(11):3296–3306. doi:10.1111/evo.12516
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4213350/
    * Whale sex: It’s all in the hips, ScienceDaily, 08 Sep 2014
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140908121536.htm
    * Vestigiality, Wikipedia (accessed 07 Nov 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestigiality
    * Sensitivity and specificity, Wikipedia (accessed 16 Nov 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity

    Segment 2: The UFO Paradox

    * UFO Researcher Explains Why She Sold ‘Exotic’ Metal to Tom DeLonge, MJ Banias, Vice, 14 Nov 2019
    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwp9z/ufo-researcher-explains-why-she-sold-exotic-metal-to-tom-delonge
    * Navy Confirms Existence of ‘Unidentified’ Flying Objects Seen in Leaked Footage, Gina Martinez, Time, 18 Sep 2019
    https://time.com/5680192/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-real/
    * Docs Show Navy Got ‘UFO’ Patent Granted By Warning Of Similar Chinese Tech Advances, Brett Tingley & Tyler Rogoway, The Drive, The War Zone, 28 Jun 2019
    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-got-ufo-patent-granted-by-warning-of-similar-chinese-tech-advances





    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode 018






    The Straw Man Fallacy & The Simpsons Prophecies
    Recorded on 06 Oct 2019: Topics Critical Thinking: The Straw Man Fallacy, The Simpsons Prophecies
    Segment 1: Critical Thinking: The Straw Man Fallacy

    * Strawman, Wikipedia (accessed 04 Oct 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
    * Fallacies, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 29 Jun 2019
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fallacies/
    * Why the Straw Man Fallacy Is Everywhere Today, Daniel Lattier, Intellectual TakeOut, 08 Nov 2017
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/why-straw-man-fallacy-everywhere-today
    * Strawmen, The Fallacy Files (accessed 04 Oct 2019)
    http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html
    * Two Forms of Strawman Argument, Robert Talisse & Scott Aikin, Argumentation, DOI 10.1007/s10503-006-9017-8, Springer 2006
    https://www.academia.edu/654363/Two_Forms_of_the_Straw_Man
    * Straw Men, Weak Men, and Hollow Men, Scott Aikin & John Casey, Argumentation (2011) 25:87–105, DOI 10.1007/s10503-010-9199-y, Springer 2010
    https://www.academia.edu/2609857/Straw_Men_Weak_Men_and_Hollow_Men
    * Nutpicking, Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly, 11 Aug 2006
    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2006/08/11/nutpicking/
    * Comment Trawling, Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly, 10 Aug 2006
    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2006/08/10/comment-trawling/ – 938476%23938476
    * Straw Man fallacy, Philosophy Terms (accessed 05 Oct 2019)
    https://philosophyterms.com/straw-man-fallacy/
    * Topics (Aristotle), Wikipedia (accessed 05 Oct 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topics_(Aristotle)
    * Misperceptions, The Media, and the Iraq War, Steven Kull, PIPA Organization, 02 Oct 2003
    https://web.stanford.edu/class/comm1a/readings/kull-misperceptions.pdf
    * Donald Trump says New York Times apologized for ‘bad coverage’ of him, Lauren Carroll, PolitiFact, 15 Nov 2016
    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/nov/15/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-new-york-times-apologized-bad-co/
    * To Our Readers, From the Publisher and Executive Editor, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, Dan Baquet, New York Times, 13 Nov 2016
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/elections/to-our-readers-from-the-publisher-and-executive-editor.html
    * fox news some people say, edgarlobb, YouTube, 03 Jun 2012
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYXkM7460U
    * Fox News controversies, Wikipedia (accessed 05 Oct 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies
    * The Most Egregious Straw Men of 2016, Cory Scarola, Inverse, 29 Dec 2016
    https://...
    56 min
  • Episode 017




    Movie Review: Hail Satan?
    Recorded on 25 August 2019: Topics include movie review of “Hail Satan?”
    Segment 1: Hail Satan?
    Documentary
    Release Date: 17 April 2019
    Director: Penny Lane
    Produced by: Hard Working Movies and Magnolia Productions
    Runtime: 95 mins
    Description: A look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple.

    * Hail Satan? (2019), IMDB (accessed 24 Aug 2019)
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9358044/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
    * Ten Commandments, Wikipedia (accessed 24 Aug 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
    * Code of Hammurabi, Wikipedia (accessed 24 Aug 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
    * Is America A Christian Nation?, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (accessed 24 Aug 2019)
    https://www.au.org/resources/publications/is-america-a-christian-nation





    54 min
  • Episode 016




    The Bigfoot Files & Intellectual Dishonesty in Anti-Abortion Arguments
    Recorded on 21 July 2019: Topics The Bigfoot Files & Intellectual Dishonesty in Anti-Abortion Arguments
    Segment 1: The Bigfoot Files

    * He asked the FBI to analyze ‘Bigfoot’ hair 40 years ago and never heard back. Until now., Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 06 Jun 2019
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/06/he-asked-fbi-analyze-bigfoot-hair-years-ago-never-heard-back-until-now
    * Search for Bigfoot Outlives The Man Who Created Him, Timothy Egan, New York Times, 03 Jan 2003
    https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/03/us/search-for-bigfoot-outlives-the-man-who-created-him.html
    * Patterson–Gimlin film, Wikipedia (Accessed 06 July 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson–Gimlin_film
    * Lie detector of Bob “Bigfoot” Heironimus – Man in the suit, YouTube, 17 Feb 2012
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xha5d_Fc7jg&feature=youtu.be
    * Patterson Bigfoot video was a fake – Part II, YouTube, 26 Dec 2012
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLmsYRnP5o

    Segment 2: Intellectual Dishonesty in Anti-Abortion Arguments

    * TRAP LAWS
    * Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, Guttmacher Institute, 01 July 2019
    https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/targeted-regulation-abortion-providers
    * Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) Laws, Guttmacher Institute, Feb 2018
    https://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/targeted-regulation-abortion-providers-trap-laws
    * State Laws and Policies, Guttmacher Institute, (accessed 06 July 2019)
    https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/laws-policies
    *  
    * ABORTION
    * Roe v. Wade, Wikipedia (accessed 31 May 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
    * Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Wikipedia (accessed 31 May 2019)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey
    *  
    * ABORTION FACTS &  STATISTICS
    * Induced Abortion in the US Fact Sheet, Guttmacher Institute, Jan 2018
    https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states

    * Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2015, Surveillance Summaries, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC, 23 Nov 2018
    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/ss/ss6713a1.htm
    * Fetal Heart May Develop Later In Pregnancy Than Thought, Robert Preidt, HealthDay, MedicineNet, 21 Feb 2013
    https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=167987
    *  
    * ANTI-ABORTION ARGUMENTS
    * Arguments Against Abortion, Kerby Anderson, Probe Ministries, 1997
    http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arg-abor.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 015




    Logical Fallacy Overview & No True Scotsman, and Exorcism in the Catholic Church
    Recorded on 12 May 2019: Topics Critical Thinking: Cognitive Biases & Errors: Fallacy: No True Scotsman and Exorcism in the Catholic Church
    Segment 1: Logical Fallacy Overview & No True Scotsman

    * Georgia councilman complains about interracial marriage while defending mayor’s racist statement, Zack Ford, Think Progress, 06 May 2019
    https://thinkprogress.org/hoschton-georgia-mayor-racial-discrimination-job-candidate-racism-d4f8eca3ea9b/amp/
    * @SkepticHeads (Skeptic Heads) “‘I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage’. Since this bigotry is based on religious ideology, recent #ReligiousFreedom legislation suggests it’s perfectly legal for this person to discriminate based on race, right? http://ow.ly/54N650u2dJR“, Twitter, 08 May 2019, 14:55
    https://twitter.com/SkepticHeads/status/1126244168492298241
    * @stumpycheese816 (Brandon Hall) “An actual Christian isn’t against interracial marriage. Only racists are against interracial marriage.”, Twitter, 08 May 2019, 22:26
    https://twitter.com/stumpycheese816/status/1126357638252568577
    * @SkepticHeads (Skeptic Heads) “Well, the ‘No True Scotsman’ fallacy aside, both the religious and non-religious can be bigots. But, it’s the religious who use their sacred ideology to justify their bigotry. It’s not me saying saying that Christianity and interracial marriage don’t mix, it’s the Christian.”, Twitter, 09 May 2019, 17:01
    https://twitter.com/SkepticHeads/status/1126638311148097536
    * List of fallacies, Wikipedia, accessed 11 May 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
    * Fallacies, Hans Hansen, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
    https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/fallacies/
    * No true Scotsman, Wikipedia, accessed 11 May 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
    * Antony Flew, Wikipedia, accessed 11 May 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Flew
    * No True Scotsman, Rational Wiki, accessed 11 May 2019
    https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman
    * The No-True-Scotsman Fallacy, The Fallacy Files, accessed 11 May 2019
    https://www.fallacyfiles.org/scotsman.html
    * The “No true Scotsman” fallacy and the problem of identity, Michael Marten, The Critical Religion Association, 08 Dec 2014
    https://criticalreligion.org/2014/12/08/the-no-true-scotsman-fallacy-and-the-problem-of-identity/
    * Atheism and the no true Scotsman fallacy, Conservapedia, accessed 11 May 2019
    https://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_the_no_true_Scotsman_fallacy
    * MLA Citation Guide (8th Edition): Social Media,
    36 min
  • Episode 014




    CA Death Penalty Moratorium & Do No Harm Act
    Recorded on 24 Mar 2019: Topics include CA Death Penalty Moratorium and Do No Harm Act
    Segment 1: CA Death Penalty Moratorium

    * California death penalty: Governor Gavin Newsom to halt executions, BBC News, 13 Mar 2019
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47549422
    * Death Penalty Information Center
    https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf
    * There’s still no evidence that executions deter criminals, Max Ehrenfreund, Washington Post, 30 Apr 2014
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/04/30/theres-still-no-evidence-that-executions-deter-criminals/
    * The Death Penalty and Deterrence, Amnesty International, accessed 16 Mar 2019
    https://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty/death-penalty-facts/the-death-penalty-and-deterrence/

    Segment 2: Do No Harm Act

    * Congressional Democrats reintroduce the Do No Harm Act, Gwen Aviles, NBC News, 01 Mar 2019
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna978101
    * Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Wikipedia, accessed 18 Mar 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act
    * Employment Division v. Smith, Wikipedia, accessed 18 Mar 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Division_v._Smith
    * ‘Religious Freedom’ or a ‘License to Discriminate’?, Teresa Wiltz, Stateline, The Pew Charitable Trusts, 12 Dec 2014
    https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2014/12/12/religious-freedom-or-a-license-to-discriminate
    * The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is discriminatory. Let’s fix it, Religion News Service, 18 May 2016
    https://religionnews.com/2016/05/18/the-religious-freedom-restoration-act-is-discriminatory-lets-fix-it/
    * Federal Judge Uses Hobby Lobby To Excuse Testimony In Child Labor Case, Sahil Kapur, Talking Points Memo, 17 Sep 2014
    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/hobby-lobby-ruling-vergel-steed
    * State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, Wikipedia, accessed 23 Mar 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Acts
    * Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Wikipedia, accessed 23 Mar 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores,_Inc.
    * Privately held company, Wikipedia, accessed 23 Mar 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_held_company – Closely_held_corporations_and_publicly_traded_corporations
    * Kim Davis, Wikipedia, accessed 23 Mar 2019
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis
    * Obergefell v. Hodges, Wikipedia,
    45 min
  • Episode 013




    Immigrants & Taxes and The Anti-Vaxx Outbreak
    Recorded on 03 Mar 2019: Topics include Immigrants & Taxes, and The Anti-Vaxx Outbreak!
    Banter: Gun Laws, Drafting Women, and Behind the Curve

    * US gun laws: House passes bill expanding background checks , Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, 27 Feb 2019
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47396340
    * Judge rules all-male military draft unconstitutional, Michael Burke, The Hill, 24 Feb 2019
    https://thehill.com/policy/defense/431334-judge-rules-all-male-military-draft-unconstitutional
    * Judge Rules Male-Only Draft Violates Constitution, Matthew S Schwartz, NPR, 25 Feb 2019
    https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697622930/judge-rules-male-only-draft-violates-constitution
    * Behind the Curve, Directed by Daniel J Clark, Delta-V Productions, 15 Nov 2018 (96 min)
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8132700/

    Segment 1: Immigrants and Taxes

    * IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes, Robert W Wood, Forbes, 13 Apr 2016
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/04/13/irs-admits-it-encourages-illegals-to-steal-social-security-numbers-for-taxes/ – 25a45beb4c04
    * Trump says illegal immigrants get $4.2B in tax credits but doesn’t count their taxes paid, Linda Qiu, PolitiFact, 18 Aug 2015
    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/18/donald-trump/trump-illegal-immigrants-four-two-billion/
    * Immigration and Taxation, Tax Forum, IRS, 2014
    https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/20-Immigration and Taxation.pdf
    * Undocumented immigrants pay taxes too. Here’s how they do it, Alexia Fernandez Campbell, Vox, 17 Apr 2017
    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/17/15290950/undocumented-immigrants-file-tax-returns

    Segment 2: The Anti-Vaxx Outbreak!

    * In Anti-Vax ‘Hotspot,’ Measles Outbreak Spreads, newser, 30 Jan 2019
    http://www.newser.com/story/270551/measles-outbreak-sickens-35-in-2-states.html
    * Vancouver-area measles outbreak grows to 43 cases, Molly Young, The Oregonian / Oregon Live, 02 Feb 2019
    https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/02/vancouver-area-measles-outbreak-grows-to-43-cases.html
    * Northwest measles outbreak revives debate over vaccine laws, Gillian Flaccus, AP Komo 4 News, 02 Feb 2019
    https://komonews.com/news/local/northwest-measles-outbreak-revives-debate-over-vaccine-laws-02-02-2019-170755407
    * New measles cases discovered in Houston amid outbreaks elsewhere, Meghan Keneally, ABC News, 04 Feb 2019
    https://abcnews.go.
    47 min
  • Episode 012




    Border Walls: Are They Effective?
    Recorded on 27 Jan 2019: Topics include Border Walls: Are They Effective? and Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild!!
    Banter: The Government Reopens … Temporarily

    * Trump Agrees to Reopen Government for 3 Weeks in Surprise Retreat From Wall, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Nicholas Fandos, and Peter Baker, NYT, 25 Jan 2019
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/politics/trump-shutdown-deal.html
    * Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has identified $7 billion for wall, Priscilla Alvarez and Tammy Kupperman, CNN, 24 Jan 2019
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/politics/trump-border-wall-emergency-draft/index.html
    * Trump’s golf course employed undocumented workers — and then fired them amid showdown over border wall, Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold, WaPo, 26 Jan 2019
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trumps-demand-for-a-border-wall-shut-down-the-government-at-the-same-time-his-company-was-firing-undocumented-workers/2019/01/26/8cf75d66-20c5-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html

     
    Segment 1: Border Walls: Are They Effective?

    * Borders and Walls: Do Barriers Deter Unauthorized Migration?, Reece Jones, Migration Policy Institute (MPI), 05Oct2016
    https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/borders-and-walls-do-barriers-deter-unauthorized-migration
    * Why the Wall Won’t Work, David Bier, The Cato Institute, May2017
    https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-wall-wont-work
    * Trump wall – all you need to know about US border in seven charts , Lucy Rodgers and Dominic Bailey, BBC News, 21 Jan 2019
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46824649
    * Five Problems Trump’s Wall Won’t Solve, According to Professor Emeritus Michael Dear, UC Berkeley, 08 Mar 2017
    https://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/news/five-problems-trumps-wall-wont-solve-according-to-professor-emeritus-michae

     
    Segment 2: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild!!

    * Jeremy Kappell: WHEC chief meteorologist fired after apparent on-air Martin Luther King slur live on Rochester, NY news, issues video apology, CBS News, 08 Jan 2019
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeremy-kappell-whec-chief-meteorologist-fired-apparent-on-air-mlk-slur-rochester-new-york/
    * Could fired meteorologist Jeremy Kappell sue WHEC and win?, Mary Chao, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 08 Jan 2019
    https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/01/08/jeremy-kappell-racist-slur-martin-luther-king-jr-sue-whec-lawsuit/2513739002/
    * US teen denies mocking Native American, BBC, 21 Jan 2019
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46943364
    41 min
  • Episode 011
    2018 End of Year Episode
    Recorded on 30 Dec 2018: Topics include Revisit of Episode 10 — The Gender Spectrum and Skepticism-Lite News Items
    Segment 1: Revisit Episode10 — The Gender Spectrum

    * What Is Discrimination, Canadian Human Rights Commission,
    https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/eng/content/what-discrimination
    * Canadian Human Rights Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-6), Justice Laws Website
    https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/h-6/
    * I know it when I see it, Wikipedia (accessed 30 Dec 2018)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
    * Roth v. United States, Wikipedia (accessed 30 Dec 2018)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth_v._United_States
    * What is Discrimination?, Find Law (accessed 30 Dec 2018)
    https://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/what-is-discrimination.html
    * Canada’s gender identity rights Bill C-16 explained, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), 02 Nov 2018
    https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/canadas-gender-identity-rights-bill-c-16-explained
    * Policy on preventing discrimination because of Gender Identity and Gender Expression, Ontario Human Rights Commission, 31 Jan 2014
    http://www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/Policy on preventing discrimination because of gender identity and gender expression.pdf

    Segment 2: Skepticism-Lite News Items

    * Teacher fired for refusing to use transgender student’s pronouns, Associated Press, NBC News, 10 Dec 2018
    https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/teacher-fired-refusing-use-transgender-student-s-pronouns-n946006
    * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dares Congress To Halt Congressional Pay During Shutdowns, Carla Herreria, Huffington Post, 22 Dec 2018
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shutdown-salary_us_5c1eedffe4b0407e907ba2f0
    * Federal employees prepare for a long shutdown, Ellie Kaufman & Paul Murphy, CNN, 29 Dec 2018
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/politics/shutdown-second-week/index.html
    * Government shutdown 2018: All 18 previous government shutdowns, explained, Dylan Matthews, Vox, 19 Jan 2018
    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/19/16905584/government-shutdown-history-clinton-obama-explained
    * Trump threatens to close border, terminate trade deals, cut aid unless wall is funded, Adam Shaw, Fox News, 28 Dec2 018
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-to-close-border-terminate-trade-deals-cut-aid-unless-wall-is-funded
    * Analysis | President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims over 700 days, Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, & Meg Kelly, WaPo, 21 Dec 2018
    46 min
  • Episode 010




    The Kavanaugh Confirmation Sexual Abuse Allegations & The Gender Spectrum
    Recorded on 07 Oct 2018: Topics include CSICON 2018 in Las Vegas, FFRF Convention in San Francisco, The Kavanaugh Confirmation Sexual Abuse Allegations, & The Gender Spectrum
     
    CSICON 2018 in Las Vegas

    * 18-21 Oct 2018
    * Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino
    * Las Vegas, NV
    * Notable Speakers:

    * Stephen Fry
    * Richard Dawkins
    * Kavin Senapathy
    * Steven Pinker


    * MC: George Hrab
    * https://csiconference.org/

     
    FFRF Conference in San Francisco


    * 02-04 Nov 2018
    * Five Embarcadero Center
    * San Francisco, CA
    * Notable Speakers:

    * John De Lancie
    * Salman Rushdie
    * Adam Savage
    * Julia Sweeney


    * https://ffrf.org/outreach/convention/2018-national-convention

     
    The Kavanaugh Confirmation Sexual Abuse Allegations


    * The truth about false assault accusations by women, Katty Kay, BBC World News, 18 Sep 2018
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45565684
    * False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases, David Lisak et al, Symposium on False Allegations of Rape, Violence Against Women 16(12) 1318-1334, 2010
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180101025446/https://icdv.idaho.gov/conference/handouts/False-Allegations.pdf

     
    The Gender Spectrum

    * Identity politics, Wikipedia, 28 Sep 2018 (accessed 29 Sep 2018)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
    * Jordan Peterson, Wikipedia, 29 Sep 2018 (accessed 29 Sep 2018)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
    * Part 1: Fear and the Law, Jordan Peterson, YouTube, 27 Sep 2016, 58 mins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvPgjg201w0
    * Part 2: Compulsory Political Education, Jordan Peterson, YouTube, 03 Oct 2016, 57 mins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7YGGCE9es
    * Part 3: The PC Game, Jordan Peterson, YouTube, 05 Oct 2016, 22 mins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2u62u4entc
    * A Note to Tomorrow’s Student Demonstrators, Jordan Peterson, YouTube, 16 Oct 2016, 2 mins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGG-pfs6AV4
    * #62 What is True? A Conversation with Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Waking Up Podcast, 21 Jan 2017, 2 hrs 16 mins
    https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/
    * #67 Meaning and Chaos. A Conversation with Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Waking Up Podcast, 13 Mar 2017, 1 hr 50 mins
    https://samharris.org/podcasts/meaning-and-chaos/
    * Sam Harris & Jordan Peterson in Vancouver 2018 (with Bret Weinstein moderating) — Night One 23 Jun 2018, Sam Harris, YouTube, 01 Sep 2018, 2 hrs 7 mins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1oaSt60b0o
    * Sam Harris & Jordan Peterson in Vancouver 2018 (with Bret Weinstein moderating) — Second Night 24 Jun 2018, Sam Harris, YouTube, 01 Sep 2018, 2 hrs 16 mins
    1 hr 7 min

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