So Long, and Thanks for All the Brine Shrimp

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Oct 26 • 

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

Watch now | Plus more crazy papers and a sane one.

Oct 14 • 

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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 • 

Colin Wright

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Eva Kurilova

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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 • 

Colin Wright

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Amy Eileen Hamm

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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 • 

Colin Wright

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Brad Polumbo

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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 • 

Colin Wright

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Brad Polumbo

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

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

Sep 1 • 

Colin Wright

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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 • 

Colin Wright

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Brad Polumbo

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

Watch now (42 mins) | Plus, why two male NFL cheerleaders shaking pom-poms isn’t a hill the ‘gender critical’ movement should die on.

Aug 18 • 

Brad Polumbo

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Colin Wright

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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 • 

Colin Wright

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Brad Polumbo

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

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

Aug 4 • 

Colin Wright

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Brad Polumbo

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July 2025

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

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

Jul 28 • 

Colin Wright

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Brad Polumbo

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