So Long, and Thanks for All the Brine Shrimp

After a great run, Brad and I are closing out Citation Needed.

Oct 26, 2025 • Colin Wright and Brad Polumbo

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Woke “scholars” say childhood sexual innocence is a “colonial fiction” that must be dismantled

Plus more crazy papers and a sane one.

Oct 14, 2025 • Colin Wright and Citation Needed

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September 2025

What ’puppygirls‘ know (and we wish we didn’t), with Eva Kurilova

Why does Taylor & Francis thinks kink blog posts deserve academic legitimacy?

Sep 30, 2025 • Colin Wright, Eva Kurilova, and Citation Needed

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Decolonizing and indigenizing nursing with Amy Hamm

Colin and Amy discuss a new paper that calls for replacing evidence-based nursing practices with mystical rituals.

Sep 23, 2025 • Colin Wright, Amy Eileen Hamm, and Citation Needed

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A new paper by a ‘nonspeaking cyborg kraken’ says society is oppressive because most people speak and hear

Plus, a lightning round of insane new academic abstracts.

Sep 16, 2025 • Colin Wright, Brad Polumbo, and Citation Needed

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‘Queer’ researcher says keeping records of child abuse is ‘settler-colonial violence’

Plus, the father of modern evidence-based medicine publicly admits he caved to activist pressure.

Sep 9, 2025 • Colin Wright, Brad Polumbo, and Citation Needed

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This sociologist says “reverse discrimination” is a paranoid myth. Here’s why he’s wrong.

Plus, some thoughts on the Minneapolis shooting and the dangers of separating vulnerable people from reality.

Sep 1, 2025 • Colin Wright and Citation Needed

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August 2025

Cancer drugs and psychedelics convinced this man he’s a nonbinary grandmother named Leela

Plus: the father of evidence-based medicine abandons his own principles to defend child sex change procedures.

Aug 26, 2025 • Colin Wright, Brad Polumbo, and Citation Needed

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Top journal Nature wants to decolonize science and replace it with ‘Indigenous’ mysticism

Plus, why two male NFL cheerleaders shaking pom-poms isn’t a hill the ‘gender critical’ movement should die on.

Aug 18, 2025 • Brad Polumbo, Colin Wright, and Citation Needed

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New Fat Studies ‘research’ claims Ozempic is fueling oppression and fat genocide

Plus, the scientist who discovered the SRY gene writes a nonsensical op-ed criticizing its use in women’s sports.

Aug 12, 2025 • Colin Wright, Brad Polumbo, and Citation Needed

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The paper “Black Anality” is what happens when academia disappears up its own…

Plus, a serious look at Colin's legal action against Cornell University for racial discrimination.

Aug 4, 2025 • Colin Wright, Brad Polumbo, and Citation Needed

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July 2025

This ‘scholar’ believes fairy tales need to be queered to resist oppression and dismantle whiteness

Plus, new paper rebuts the pseudoscience behind Caster Semenya’s eligibility in women’s sports.

Jul 28, 2025 • Colin Wright, Brad Polumbo, and Citation Needed

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