On this "crossover" episode, Adam and economist Bob Murphy show some examples of speech and arguments being blocked, shouted down, or censored. Does this approach work?
00:00 — Intro. In which, Bob makes a very unfortunate Freudian slip.
02:17 — Daryll Cooper of the Martyrmade podcast on JRE sparked some controversy.
25:14 — It's very common to try to shut down dissent. Why do we do it? Is it useful in any way?
34:25 — Bob gets blocked by Alex Nowrasteh
42:17 — The way Bob handles Modern Monetary Theory arguments is instructive.
45:20 — Adam has a confession to make about the moon landing controversy.
48:38 — How should we feel about "giving a platform" to bad arguments or arguers?
52:36 — Jeremy Kauffman and race and metrics of demonstrating academic proficiency.
57:04 — Outro. Thanks for watching Haman Nature!
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