How Much Impact Does Your Donation Really Have?

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This episode of very bad wizards is brought to you, once again, by one of our favorite charities, give well dot org. Givewell spends over 30 thousand hours each year researching charitable organizations. Over a hundred and ten thousand donors have used givewell to donate more than one billion dollars.

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.