Supplementary Material 54: Solarpunk Pecan Pie, Northern Irish Sushi, & the Discourse Meat Grinder

We return from our holidays with an indulgent episode that starts light and ends up very dark as we turn to the unavoidable Jason Arday discourse.

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Supplementary Material 54

00:00 Pecan Pie Introduction

04:10 Solar Punk Matt

08:17 Ireland Trip Report

15:24 Australian Burger Culture

17:32 Manga Cafe Experiments

24:10 Joe Rogan on AI Remote Viewing

29:14 Parapsychology as a Research Field

34:07 A One Man University Level Course in Bad Thinking

36:58 The Young Info Turks

40:53 More Credulity with Ryan Grim over Fauci

42:14 Richard Ebright, Warning Signs, and Radicalisation Spirals

48:28 Vinay Prasad jumping on the Anti-Fauci wagon for the Free Press

52:31 The Jason Arday Affair

54:28 The Surrounding Context

58:18 Polemical Discourse Waves

01:05:22 The Guru Factor

01:08:25 A Realistic View of Universities as Imperfect Institutions

01:12:17 Elite Prestige Bias

01:21:33 Culture War Distortions

01:25:04 The Ethics of Critical Journalism

01:29:50 Inconsistent Standards

01:38:36 Outro

Links

• The Jack Nicholson Story from the Always Sunny Podcast
• The Manga Cafes in Question
• Deposition of InfoWars Host Owen Shroyer
• Alex Jones And Roger Stone Interrupt The Young Turks Republican National Convention Coverage
• Ken Klippenstein visits the War Room
• Ana Kasparian & Owen Shroyer: The UNEXPECTED Conversation on MAGA, DSA & the Uniparty!
• Bret Weinstein on InfoWars
• Richard Ebright on one of his many Twitter spirals
• Joe Rogan on AI Remote Viewing
• The Free Press: Vinay Prasad- Anthony Fauci’s Vaccine Deceptions
• Ryan Grim being credulous over Fauci and Vaccines
• The Guardian: Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor (Lanre Bakare)
• The Atlantic: The Jason Arday Truthers (Helen Lewis)
• Front Left: It sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wronged (based on citation data) (Jason Stanley)
• A Digital Lynching (Carol Cadwalladr)
• Tox Report: The Most Unfortunate Thing (Sarah Ditum)
• Byline Times: The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday (Nafeez Ahmed)
• The Good Law Project: Stand in Solidarity with Jason Arday
• Amnesty UK supporting “Arday’s Law”
• Simon Baron Cohen on BBC 4 Today talking about Jason Arday
• NYT: A Top Scholar’s Fall Shows That Universities Don’t Get It
• NYT: Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring
• The Emancipator: The Media Lynched Kason Arday (Ibram X. Kendi)
• Gideon M.K.: The Jason Arday Saga Is Terrible And Everyone Involved Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves
• Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: Cambridge’s youngest Black professor Jason Arday on Autism, racism, and learning to read at 18
• Open (supporting) letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
• Board Member of Ghent University (Dries Bostyn) discussing the disciplinary case on Twitter
• Numb at the Lodge: The Carrion-Eaters (Sam Kriss)
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Jason Arday & Me (Musa al-Gharbi)
• US Ambassador applies pressure to Ghent University
• Nathan Cofnas thanks the US Ambassador for intervening
• Academia is Doing Fine, Actually (Nicholas Decker)
• Eric Turkheimer substack on Nathan Cofnas' views
• Sasha Gusev thread on Nathan Cofnas' views