Episode · The Rubin Report · 2019-02-18
Dave Rubin, Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay: books mentioned on The Rubin Report
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James Lindsay discussed Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fashionable Nonsense
Discussed“and so this is why I did it ended up writing a best-selling New York Times bestselling book called fashionable nonsense talking about how these guys use these fashionable terms and just say the right political things and it's all nonsense”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Fashionable Nonsense
“and so this is why I did it ended up writing a best-selling New York Times bestselling book called fashionable nonsense talking about how these guys use these fashionable terms and just say the right political things”
“and I would I had just written this book or was in the process I don't remember exactly the date I'd written this book trying to look at the psychological motivations behind belief in God and what people mean by that”
Plugged Everybody Is Wrong About God
“and I would I had just written this book or was in the process I don't remember exactly the date I'd written this book trying to look at the psychological motivations behind belief in God and what people mean by that”
Plugged A Manual for Creating Atheists
“Well so as the guy who wrote a manual for creating atheist deprogramming religious thinking is something you've been interested in a long time”
“I think one of the most important things and this isn't our forthcoming book about how to have impossible conversations Peter and I just finished one of those important things is to learn to disavow the extremists on your side”