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SIO343: Excess Republican COVID Deaths Are Massive. But Not Surprising.

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SIO342: New Study on Sedentary Lifestyle and Health

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September QnA!

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SIO341: Does Belief in Astrology Correlate with Narcissism?

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SIO340: Are Most Late Term Abortions for Health Reasons? Actually... No

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SIO339: The Turnaway Studies, Part 1

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SIO338: Is Depression 'Just a Chemical Imbalance?' with Dr. Dean Burnett

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SIO337: Major Announcement! Academia Has Lost a Science Person...

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SIO336: How Night People Suffer in a Morning Person World

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SIO335: Are There Morning People and Night People? What the Science Says

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SIO334: ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ with the Glass Box Podcast, Part 2!

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SIO333: 'Under the Banner of Heaven' and the Lafferty Murders, with The Glass Box Podcast

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SIO332: Science Says Stop Spanking Your Kids, A-Holes! – Dear Old Dads Crossover

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SIO331: Study Shows Privileged People Perceive Equality as Unfair

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SIO330: Does Meditation Reduce Prosocial Behavior?

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SIO329: Lindsey Shares Her Abortion Story

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SIO328: Making Sense of Sensemaking with Aaron Rabinowitz

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SIO327: Does Paying Fox News Viewers to Watch CNN Pull Them Back Into Reality?

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SIO325: How to Be Persuasive, According to Science - Part 2

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SIO324: How To Be Persuasive, According to Science

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SIO323: Did COVID Precautions Increase Adolescent Suicide Risk?

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SIO322: Again with the Garbage Free Speech Arguments

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SIO321: Does Giving Money to Mothers Boost Baby Brain Activity?

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SIO320: Patreon QnA 8!

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SIO319: The Rise (and Fall?) of r/antiwork

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SIO318: Study Says the People Have 'Near-Zero' Influence on Policy. Does it Hold Up?

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SIO317: Is Instagram Bad for Mental Health? What the Science Says Might Surprise You

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SIO316: Spooktacular October Patreon QnA!

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SIO315: Lisa Littman's Latest Trans Study is Garbage

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SIO314: Lisa Littman's Bogus Trans Studies, Part 1

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SIO313: US Police Killings Undercounted by More than Half, According to New Study

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SIO312: September Patreon QnA!

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SIO311: What the Science Actually Says on Porn Consumption

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SIO310: Banning Sex Work and Sex Work Websites Is Bad and We Should Stop Doing It

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SIO309: A Veterinarian Answers our Ivermectin Questions

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SIO308: August Patreon QnA!

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SIO307: Newly Published Study Shows Atheists are Prejudiced...

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SIO306: What Does the Massachusetts Outbreak Say About Vaccine Effectiveness?

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SIO305: July Patreon QnA!

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SIO304: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? Part 2: The Study So Bad It Made Quillette Look Good

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SIO303: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? AKA Debunking a Garbage Quillette Article About a Garbage Study

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SIO302: Are Boomers Narcissistic? Are Millennials Entitled? What a Large Narcissism Study Does and Doesn't Tell Us

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SIO301: Evidence Based Mental Healthcare, with Dr. Caleb Lack

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SIO300: June Patreon QnA!

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SIO299: Debunking CRT Attacks with Dr. Ery Shin

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SIO298: Is Life Pointless? More from the Journal of Controversial Ideas

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SIO297: New Atheists Didn't "Merge with the Far Right"

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SIO296: The Journal of Controversial Ideas

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SIO295: Patreon QnA 2!

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SIO294: The Hannah-Jones Tenure Denial is Worse Than You Think

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SIO293: Did The CDC Screw Up?

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SIO292: More Weinstein and Heying Anti-vax Nonsense

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SIO291: Bret Weinstein Spreads Dangerous Anti-vax Nonsense

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SIO290: Patreon QnA 1!

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SIO289: Our Disgustingly Racist Death Penalty

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SIO288: The AHA Dawkins Debacle, Part 2

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SIO287: AHA Revokes Dawkins Award, Atheists Lose Minds

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SIO286: Studies of Racial Bias in Criminal Justice

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SIO285: Debunking "The End of Gender" Part 2

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SIO284: Debunking "The End of Gender" Part 1

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SIO283: Quantum Physics 101, with the What the FUP Podcast!

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SIO282: Debunking the Latest 'Campus Craziness' Stories

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SIO281: Frank and Dan Want You To Run for Something!

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SIO280: A Scientific Case for Repressed Memory?

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SIO279: How 'The Cut' Dangerously Mishandled Recovered Memory, with Carrie Poppy

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SIO278: The Filibuster is F***ing Stupid

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SIO277: The GameStop Fiasco, with Phil Ferguson

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SIO276: Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect Real?

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SIO275: President Biden! (marginal happiness warranted)

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SIO274: A Pornhub Rebuttal with Tom Curry

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SIO273: Sam Harris is Wrong Again

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SIO272: Sedition Special with Andrew Torrez and Allison Gill

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SIO271: Listener Qs!

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SIO270: NYT's Kristof Duped by Christian Anti-Porn Group

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SIO269: Evolutionary Psychology and Sex Differences

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SIO268: Defending Evolutionary Psychology with Lindsey Osterman

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SIO267: We Should Eat Less Meat

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Bonus: Yelling at Sam Harris

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SIO266: Why Sam Harris Is Wrong about Police Killings

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SIO265: Did The System Work?

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SIO264: Did Progressive Causes Lead To House Losses?

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SIO263: Not The Worst Possible Outcome, But Close

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SIO262: I'm Perfectly Calm

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SIO261: A Monster Island Follow-up

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SIO260: Aaron Rabinowitz on James Lindsay and Monster Island

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SIO259: Hunter's Damned Emails

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SIO258: How Social Media Can Subvert Democracy

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SIO257: The Psychology Behind Cults, Part 2!

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SIO256: The Psychology Behind Cults, with Lindsey Osterman

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SIO255: That Horrendous Debate, with Andrew and Alex Torrez!

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SIO254: We Have To Win

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SIO253: Unpacking 'The Social Dilemma'

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SIO252: Lindsey Osterman on Parasocial Relationships

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SIO251: Dimensions of Political Identity

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SIO250: James Lindsay's "New Discourses" Funded By Far Right Christian Nationalist

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SIO249: Can Trump Refuse to Leave? with Andrew Torrez

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SIO248: Can Trump Steal the Election? with Andrew Torrez

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SIO247: Reflections on White Fragility and How To Be An Antiracist

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SIO246: That Harper's Letter, with Eli Bosnick

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SIO245: Brandon J. McKoy on #defundthepolice