In this one-on-one conversation, Peter engages with a med school student about the claim, “Hungary should have diversity mandates for doctors.” The student, an aspiring dentist from Germany, immediately expresses a strong opinion. Peter challenges the student with a variety of considerations. The student sees some merit in encouraging under-represented groups to pursue medicine, but does he change his mind? The difference between “equality” and “equity” is also revealed. This conversation was filmed in Pécs, Hungary. To see more spectrum conversations from Eastern Europe, visit the “Reverse Q&A: Hungary & Romania” playlist. To be notified when new conversations are released, click SUBSCRIBE. New videos are available Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 1:00 pm PT. End music from "Hungarian Dance" by The Underscore Orkestra is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. http://theunderscoreorkestra.com/ ⸺SUPPORT MY WORK⸺ Newsletter | https://boghossian.substack.com/ Donate | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/donate/ ⸺LINKS⸺ Website | https://peterboghossian.com/ National Progress Alliance | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/ Resignation Letter | https://peterboghossian.com/my-resignation-letter ⸺BOOKS⸺ “How To Have Impossible Conversations” | https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738285323/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_7DPKY2S21SSNAV8PCBW3_0 “A Manual For Creating Atheists” | https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Creating-Atheists-Peter-Boghossian/dp/1939578094/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1664805100&sr=1-2 ⸺SOCIAL MEDIA⸺ Twitter | https://twitter.com/peterboghossian Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/peter.boghossian/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@peterboghossian All Socials | https://linktr.ee/peterboghossian __________ Alternative titles: Are diversity mandates for doctors good? Racial quotas in medical school Diversity mandates in medical school #diversity #medicalschool #peterboghossian #streetepistemology #reverseqanda ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCdM6kRFmEc

There’s one topic people around the world want to discuss more than any other: Aliens. No matter where in the world Reid Nicewonder and Peter travel, this is always the most requested topic. Specifically, people are fascinated by the claim, “Aliens are currently visiting Earth.” If this claim interests you, then you’ve come to the right place! Over the next two weeks, we’ll release two Spectrum Street Epistemology discussions measuring participant confidence in alien visitations. We’ll also release two long form conversations on the topic. The first is this video with author and investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger. Next week, we’ll hear the viewpoint of author and skeptic Michael Shermer. Michael Shellenberger appreciates the challenge skeptics offer regarding the existence of UFOs (also termed UAPs, "Unexplained Aerial Phenomena"). Skeptics, true believers, and everyone in between have taken note of Michael’s reporting on the topic. In this conversation with Peter Boghossian, Michael explains his level of confidence about visitations by non-terrestrial spacecraft. (Peter says the verified discovery of alien spacecraft would be a revolution comparable to humanity’s domestication of fire—and he wants it to be true but requires evidence.) Peter and Michael also discuss a more down-to-earth possible cover-up regarding the source of COVID-19. They explore free speech, censorship for adults vs. children, the Orwellian “Institute for Strategic Dialogue,” levels of societal hate, “crazy-making,” the attitudinal disposition to the truth as a basis of friendship, their friendship, and much more. Michael Shellenberger is an author, investigative journalist, and the founder & president of Environmental Progress, a nonprofit research organization. He also co-founded the California Peace Coalition, an alliance of parents of children killed by fentanyl and parents of homeless addicts. Michael is the author of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (with Ted Nordhaus), Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, and most recently, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. He also coauthored An EcoModernist Manifesto. US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft, Say Military And Intelligence Contractors https://public.substack.com/p/us-has-12-or-more-alien-space-craft San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities https://www.amazon.com/San-Fransicko-Progressives-Ruin-Cities/dp/0063093626/ Environmental Progress https://environmentalprogress.org/ Twitter: @shellenberger Chapters 0:00 Intro 2:50 Michael’s coverage of “alien craft” 13:46 Censorship & hate speech 28:00 Tweet from Institute for Strategic Dialogue 31:15 Clip of Bret Weinstein and Vivek Ramaswamy 35:00 Censorship around C-vid 41:25 Vivek Ramaswamy and Bret Weinstein clip about C-vid origins 45:00 Michael and Peter react to clip 47:10 How friendship keeps Michael and Peter going 1:00:00 Concluding conversation ⸺SUPPORT MY WORK⸺ Newsletter | https://boghossian.substack.com/ Donate | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/donate/ ⸺LINKS⸺ Website | https://peterboghossian.com/ National Progress Alliance | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/ Resignation Letter | https://peterboghossian.com/my-resignation-letter ⸺BOOKS⸺ “How To Have Impossible Conversations” | https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738285323/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_7DPKY2S21SSNAV8PCBW3_0 “A Manual For Creating Atheists” | https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Creating-Atheists-Peter-Boghossian/dp/1939578094/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1664805100&sr=1-2 ⸺SOCIAL MEDIA⸺ Twitter | https://twitter.com/peterboghossian Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/peter.boghossian/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@peterboghossian All Socials | https://linktr.ee/peterboghossian __________ #peterboghossian #climatechange #censorship #michaelshellenberger ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7fpitQzzM

In Fall 2023, philosopher and author Nina Power and cultural critic and polymath Carl Benjamin joined Peter for a Spectrum Street Epistemology exercise in Hampstead Heath, London. They explored controversial claims about a variety of socio-political and cultural topics. Nina and Carl have been on Peter's channel before, but this is their first Spectrum Street Epistemology episode. Peter's interview with Nina Power: https://youtu.be/SiGM1qg3rEs Peter's interview with Carl Benjamin: https://youtu.be/piprrQmiCuY Nina received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Middlesex University and an MA and BA in philosophy from the University of Warwick. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and has taught at various British universities. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the British Philosophical Association. She co-hosts the podcast The Lack with Helen Rollins and Benjamin Studebaker. Nina on X https://twitter.com/Nina_Compact Carl Benjamin, AKA "Sargon of Akkad," is best described as a free-speech activist, staunch critic of identity politics, and champion of English Liberalism. When YouTube and Google shadowbanned his channel in 2019 for wrongthink, Carl continued creating content on Akkad Daily. In November 2020, he launched a new media venture: Lotuseaters.com. Carl on X https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad 00:00 Intro 01:41 Conservatism Definition 03:32 Conservatism v Liberalism 06:22 Discussion on traditionalism 08:46 Religious Conversion 22:54 Outcomes of belief systems 24:05 Which religions yield better societal results 25:47 Human Flourishing 29:13 Cultural Decline 34:33 Gender Roles 43:33 The fundamental experiences tied to gender 45:22 Differences between being a man and a woman 47:40 The unique experiences of pregnancy 49:51 The significance of being a man or a woman 52:16 Being a man in contemporary society ⸺SUPPORT MY WORK⸺ Newsletter | https://boghossian.substack.com/ Donate | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/donate/ ⸺LINKS⸺ Podcast: "Conversations with Peter Boghossian": https://pod.link/1650150225 Website | https://peterboghossian.com/ National Progress Alliance | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/ Resignation Letter | https://peterboghossian.com/my-resignation-letter ⸺BOOKS⸺ “How To Have Impossible Conversations” | https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738285323/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_7DPKY2S21SSNAV8PCBW3_0 “A Manual For Creating Atheists” | https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Creating-Atheists-Peter-Boghossian/dp/1939578094/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1664805100&sr=1-2 ⸺SOCIAL MEDIA⸺ Twitter | https://twitter.com/peterboghossian Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/peter.boghossian/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@peterboghossian All Socials | https://linktr.ee/peterboghossian __________ #peterboghossian #genderdifferences #streetepistemology #thoughtexperiment ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77mCvAB0U5k

⸺SUPPORT MY WORK⸺ Newsletter | https://boghossian.substack.com/ Donate | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/donate/ ⸺LINKS⸺ Website | https://peterboghossian.com/ National Progress Alliance | https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/ Resignation Letter | https://peterboghossian.com/my-resignation-letter ⸺BOOKS⸺ “How To Have Impossible Conversations” | https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738285323/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_7DPKY2S21SSNAV8PCBW3_0 “A Manual For Creating Atheists” | https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Creating-Atheists-Peter-Boghossian/dp/1939578094/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1664805100&sr=1-2 ⸺SOCIAL MEDIA⸺ Twitter | https://twitter.com/peterboghossian Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/peter.boghossian/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@peterboghossian All Socials | https://linktr.ee/peterboghossian __________ #peterboghossian #Romania #streetepistemology ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t3FOrtokL0