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'On Bullsh*t' and the Pundit Industrial Complex [TEASER]

If Books Could Kill

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The Difference Between Bullshit and Research Assistants

I think it's worth pointing out that a lot of people enter into the project of like writing a piece or making a podcast with like, I'm going to defend my point of view. There are people who do that and then engage with the other critiques in good faith. And really try to make the case. With Maureen Dowd, it's like, what isn't bullshit? Right. We only made one research assistant joke. That's right. It was so subtle that people tried to tell us about the research assistant story. Did you know? I didn't know. People were like, did you know? We're like, guys, that's why I made an extremely weird

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