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535. How Evolutionary Psychology Can Inform Marketing, the Social Sciences, and the Denial of Science with Dr. Gad Saad

According to today’s guest, “ You can't study anything involving any creature, let alone human beings, let alone human beings in a business setting, whilst pretending that the biological forces that shape our behavior are somehow non-existent.”  Dr. Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia…

CYKIAE Season 15 Part 9. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – Let Me Tell You About Your Operating System.

Thanks to our discovery of DNA, RNA and all things associated with them, and what we know of how it operates, we now know that every living system, just like your computer, is powered by its own operating system to power what it is and what it does. Until that discovery we used to think that our un…

Episode 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology.

In this episode, Mac Parker and Anatarah Bin AlKaf have a casual chat on Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins seminal book the Dialectical Biologist. They cover why this book remains a key contribution to Marxist theory, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of technology. Along the way, the conversa…

CYKIAE Season 15 Part 11. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – Stephen Jay Gould declared neo-Darwinism "effectively dead, despite its persistence as textbook orthodoxy" .

Evolutionary biologists. Did you know that sometimes even Homer nods? That’s an expression my amazing high school teacher used to say. I don’t think it’s a common expression today. So let me explain it to you. Tag words: Darwinism; Theory of Evolution; The Return of the God Hypothesis; Stephen Myer…

CYKIAE Season 15 Part 21. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – Something Terrible Happened to Dean Kenyon.

Is there a danger that modern atheist scientists are taking science away from a discipline that only follows the evidence and making it into a religion instead? some scientists and philosophers have been led, albeit unwittingly, to re-deify the universe by endowing matter and energy with creative p…

Who Decides What Counts As Evidence? Autoimmune Disorders and The Politics of Evaluating Covid-19 Vaccine Harm. An interview with Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD

Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhDSchool of Health Policy and ManagementFaculty of Health, York University, Canada “COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune disorders: A scoping review, AIMS Medical Science, 2025, 12(4): 325-349.“ 4/2026 Interview Summary – By Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD This interview presents the wor…

AI for good? (LIVE! with Dr Abeba Birhane)

To celebrate our 100th episode, we invited our listeners to watch us in action live, with the return of special guest Dr Abeba Birhane, founder of the pioneering AI Accountability Lab. We had fun with a game of Good Tech, Bad Tech (trademark pending) followed by a meaty discussion with Abeba about …

Endgame

The boom in AI datacentres is part of an anti-everything endgame strategy for capitalists who want to permanently win capital’s war against labour and complete, once and for all, the enclosure of the commons and the privatization of all stores of value, down to the last bytes of information. Roger …

Biological existence and its theoretical complexities.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin argued that organisms do not adapt to their environments, but rather that organisms and environments co-evolve and construct one another. Two new books in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series take up this decree in bold, imaginative ways:…

CYKIAE Season 15 Part 54. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Some Things You Just Gotta Take on Trust.

It’s entirely possible that you‘ve never heard of the French nobleman, Alexis de Tocqueville. The editors of the 2000 edition of Alexis’s famous book, Democracy in America, Harvey C Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, wrote: Alexis de Tocqueville was born on July 29, 1805, and died in his fifty-fourth ye…