[ravenstine]

Eric Weinstein's "The Portal"

Lots of episodes of Joe Rogan (Depending on the guest)

Brett Weinstein's "Dark Horse Podcast"

Rationally Speaking by Julia Galef (Been on hiatus for a while, though)

Uncommon Knowledge by Hoover Institution (I don't appreciate some of their conservative views, but they have interesting guests and are a good way to break the liberal bubble)

[ZhuanXia]

Julia Galef remains the best interviewer I have ever heard. She is so incredibly sharp. Her guests will make a point about an abstruse philosophical/economic/statistical topic and she will reply with a perfect, novel, challenging question that betrays an immediate understanding of the complex idea she just processed. Shame the show is on hold.

[mark_l_watson]

I just subscribed to Uncommon Knowledge, thanks for the reference. I am a very far left liberal, but if I have to talk politics then I prefer to doing so with my conservative friends rather my with liberal friends. I think having my own viewpoint just reflected back at me gets boring.

[psmithsfhn]

I will check this one out (the Hoover one), but I'm skeptical.

I could see, in theory, reading or listening to some conservative stuff, but it just never seems to be honest. Or...lacks basic human decency. Is outright racist. etc.

I do remember, at least think I do, 20 years ago -- you could find at least some people being serious on the right. Eh, I was probably just being naive.

Hoover - last time I saw something from them - it was basically VDH arguing for total war or something.

And...what is with billionaires buying universities' prestige? It's kind of like you can have excellent global heating reporting in the WSJ, and then their OpEd page will say, 'There is no evidence of heating.' Same thing with Hoover and Stanford. Or the Kochs buying...everything. I guess Unis are on even shakier ground now. :-/

...checked them all out. Not for me. Except one Rationally Speaking episode about whether global poverty/rate is good/bad.

[not_a_moth]

A fan of "The Portal" but didn't know about "Dark Horse". I listened to a couple Q&A episodes, and they, two professional biologists, concluded that covid-19 is most likely a gain-of-function, chimera virus created in a lab.

This viewpoint seems to be largely censored, but I think it deserves to be front and center of our covid discourse right now. Sad that marginal youtube channels are doing the work that our main institutions of journalism should.

[wrnr]

What episode is the lab grown statement from?

[wrnr]

Found it: https://medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throu... https://youtu.be/FKtsx0fZzzQ?t=1135

[logicslave]

Uncommon Knowledge is amazing. Peter Robins is a world class interviewer.